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Only religion could have inspired the beauties of Venice

i have recently been engaged in reading back numbers of plough quarterly. this magazine is the inspired production of the bruderhof movement...

Francis Phillips

Italy should get back taxes from Vatican, court rules

catholic leaders are open to discussing with the italian government a court ruling saying italy has the right to recover millions of dollars...

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Italian bishops vote to change translation of the Our Father

the italian bishops approved an updated translation of mass prayers, including a change in the translation of the our father, and they passe...

Sex abuse inquiry examines England's Birmingham archdiocese

an independent government inquiry is investigating how the archdiocese of birmingham handled allegations of child sexual abuse made against ...

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Morning Catholic must-reads: 16/11/18

the church risks “becoming disoriented by falling prey to ... polarisation” , pope francis has told latin american priests ( video ). israel...

The inspired scribblings of England's finest Catholic poet

on visiting the wren library in cambridge charles lamb had an unwelcome shock. inspecting the manuscript for milton’s lycidas, he was “stagg...

Confessions of a Scandinavian St Augustine

the end by karl ove knausgaard, harvill secker, 1,153pp, £25/$49.95 the english translation of the end, the final volume of the celebrated n...

Diary of a city priest

it was with sadness that i learnt the news of the recent death of abbot aldhelm cameron-brown, at 89. i met him probably fewer than 20 times...

Fr Dominic Allain

Prize crossword 0568

cryptic across 1 insignificant number lacking zip in old musical brought back featuring, in sam, a naughty girl (6) 4 egyptian city’s almost...

The mystery of Fr Jenkins

can pope francis impose a moratorium on the use of “mystery” in catholic discourse? can he ban it from official and semi-official catholic j...