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A look at President Trump’s pro-life 'solution'

Faced with a divided Congress, what can Trump do for the pro-life movement?

Michelle La Rosa/CNA

English Catholics criticise Vatican-China deal

A long-serving MP and a former Member of the European Parliament are among names who have condemned the agreement

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Did anti-Catholicism increase First World War casualties?

Senior commanders were suspicious of the Church's peace efforts, and of Catholic soldiers

Allan Mallinson

What’s the problem with medieval mysticism?

rebekah lamb looks back to the days when the virgin mary would chastise bishops mary and the art of prayer by rachel fulton brown, columbia,...

Biblical films get the academic treatment

matt thorne finds some insight amid the waffle t&t clark companion to the bible and film edited by richard walsh, bloomsbury/t&t cla...

A fab Porgy and Bess – but it’s hardly opera

when george gershwin wrote porgy and bess, he believed himself to be writing an opera – and so by general acceptance he was, although its re...

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Pakistan’s test case

it was an unforgettable moment when i was woken at 5am by a phone call to say that asia bibi had been acquitted by pakistan’s supreme court....