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Riverdance to perform for Pope Francis at World Meeting of Families

The 'Festival of Families' will be a two-hour spectacle of music and dance

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Inside Britain's first Trappist brewery

Mount St Bernard Abbey faced an uncertain financial future. Then the monks created an ale that has critics buzzing

How pride became a virtue

if someone were to produce a word count of one of the most overused words in our language today, i imagine that the word “pride” would come ...

The big story of the past seven days

✣ cardinal’s aide arrested for alleged child abuse what happened? the former chancellor of the archdiocese of santiago, chile, was arrested ...

The best of the web

✣ highlights from the week online cleared of murder – then hugged by a pope amaury coutansais-pervinquière told the incredible story of toma...

Britain: Education - an inspector calls

the ofsted head’s latest speech won’t allay the concerns of faith schools "the last thing a chief inspector should be is a crusader.” so sai...

United States: Courtroom drama

is brett kavanaugh the man who will finally bring down roe? "vibrant” is a curious way to describe the catholic community in washington dc. ...

Michael Warren Davis

Diary: by Harry Mount

why do british men wear socks and jackets during the intense heat? after years of sweating through summer parties, i’ve made a breakthrough ...

When ‘no change’ changed everything

for the philosopher ralph mcinerny, 1968 was “the year the church fell apart”. for peter steinfels, it saw the beginning of “the vietnam war...

Stephen Bullivant