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france's european affairs minister encouraged the holy see last week to aid in an investigation of the apostolic nuncio to france, who has b...

Catholic News Agency

in a visit to a roman parish on sunday, pope francis encouraged catholics to stop gossiping and ruminating on the shortcomings of other peop...

Hannah Brockhaus/CNA

a good person “draws good from his heart and from his mouth” , pope francis said at yesterday’s angelus ( full text , full video ). the pope...

Luke Coppen

the last thing a raging fire burning out of control needs is for a jet of petrol to be sprayed on it. but cardinal george pell’s defence cou...

Catherine Lafferty

nicaragua’s bishops have called for prayers ahead of new talks between government and opposition leaders. pope francis has chosen an italian...

Luke Coppen

never look away tells kind of the story that invites superlatives and deserves them. based upon the life of painter gerhard richter, it tell...

Deal Hudson

the consensus has it out for priestly celibacy and chastity in catholicism. which means we the faithful, lay and clerical, are called to ral...

Sohrab Ahmari

last week a california state senator introduced a bill to remove the penitential exemption from mandatory reporting of sexual abuse, in what...

Jordan Bloom

i’ve been both blessed and cursed by a congenital restlessness that hasn’t always made my life easy. i remember as a boy restlessly wanderin...

Fr Ronald Rolheiser

the news that the second earl of snowdon, the son of princess margaret, is looking to commission a new biography of his mother, one that wil...

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith