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✣ pope orders change to catechism on death penalty what happened? pope francis changed the wording of the catechism on the death penalty. th...

In brief

new orleans centre to promote african-american sainthood candidates xavier university of louisiana has announced that its institute for blac...

Britain: Moving the goalposts on euthanasia

the supreme court takes another step away from church teaching there is utter clarity about catholic teaching on the withdrawal of clinicall...

US abuse scandal: An unprecedented move

the names of 71 accused clergy have been released by their bishop on thursday, bishop ronald gainer of harrisburg released a list of 71 cler...

Michael Warren Davis

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Desperate measures

a congolese cardinal is resisting calls to run for president last month a coalition of catholic groups in the democratic republic of the con...

Jonathan Luxmoore

Pakistan: Meet the new boss

the new leader promises change. but christians aren’t celebrating yet in a televised speech made after his victory in pakistan’s elections, ...

Diary: by Petroc Trelawny

it’s 50 years this month since the soviet union abruptly ended the prague spring. on august 21, 1968 alexander dubček’s newly introduced lib...

Petroc Trelawny

‘It’s a bit like being a paramedic’

Armitage has a track record in building institutions and the bishops wanted someone who could develop England’s national Marian shrine

‘She will always be 20’

for des mclindon, august 1968 is “just a haze”. yet as his mind spools back half a century, there are pictures, pieces of memory of a partic...

Thai cave boys give a lesson in gratitude

one of the most striking photographs of the week was that showing the young thai boys – so courageously rescued from that perilous cave – at...