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Pope Francis's letter on abuse contained much of value. Don't write it off

We cannot ignore the spiritual aspect of the crisis and the need for penance

Fr Raymond de Souza

The Pope’s next steps

this is either the best or the worst time for a papal visit to ireland. it’s easy to understand why it might be the worst. consider these ne...

The Catholic Herald

The big story of the past seven days

✣ pope deplores abuse in letter to world’s catholics what happened? pope francis has called on all catholics to engage in penitential praye...

United States: Cardinal error

the archbishop of washington’s public relations strategy backfires six dioceses, 300 priests and 1,000 victims. those numbers were splashed ...

Michael Warren Davis

Diary: by Harry Mount

over the weekend, i made a pilgrimage to combe florey, the somerset village and house where evelyn, and then auberon, waugh, lived. as a chi...

The perils of hasty secularisation

pope francis could hardly be arriving at a more dramatic moment. in the aftermath of the abortion referendum, ireland seems to be wholly set...

A papal rescue mission

pope francis will be greeted by large and enthusiastic crowds when he visits dublin to attend the 2018 world meeting of families (wmof). the...

Fr Raymond J de Souza: From bureaucrats to penitents

in this summer of shame, how should bishops speak about scandals of sexual predation in the clergy? there have been some remarkable failures...

Fr Raymond de Souza

Freezing out marriage

in times gone by, mothers would hope to have their daughters “married off” by the age of 25, or, at most, 30. they had a disconcerting way o...

The holy rebels

above (top to bottom): thomas merton, dorothy day and daniel berrigan in 2017 jim forest published at play in the lions’ den , a biography o...