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Bishops give Pope a list of slain protesters

venezuela’s bishops have delivered a letter to pope francis calling their government a dictatorship and including a list of those killed in ...

‘Signs of torture’ found on body of dead bishop

medical investigators have found “signs of torture” on the body of a cameroonian bishop who died in mysterious circumstances. catholic leade...

Soviet-era martyr to be beatified

a lithuanian archbishop who was murdered with a lethal injection after 16 years in prisons and labour camps will become the first catholic m...

Can Catholics trust the DUP?

as the catholic herald went to press, it was unclear whether theresa may would formalise a deal with the democratic unionist party (dup). su...

Why we’re struggling to defeat extremism

isis recruits are often portrayed in the west as having been ordinary people prior to some sudden moment of radicalisation, shortly before t...

I attacked the ordinariate. Now I’m a Catholic

autumn 2007 haverhill, massachusetts, is a rusty, decaying old industrial town. it peaked in the 1940s, when it was the hub of shoemaking an...

Michael Warren Davis

Theatre: Give this bonkers Cold War Woyzeck a miss

georg büchner wrote woyzeck in 1837, the year he died, aged 23. there was no definitive text, just fragments of paper. it wasn’t performed f...

The rape victim who forgave her attacker

in 1996, thordis elva, an icelandic teenager, was raped for two hours by tom stranger, her australian boyfriend. some years later they embar...

Briefly noted

the image of god, personhood and the embryo by calum mackellar (scm press, £35) . the author, an expert on medical ethics and visiting profe...

Pictures of the week

1 vatican archbishop paul gallagher attends the golden jubilee celebrations at liverpool’s metropolitan cathedral (photo: mazur/catholicnews...

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