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Belgian bishops clash with Brothers of Charity over decision to allow euthanasia

The bishops said euthanasia 'attacked the very foundations of our civilisation'
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What’s inside this week’s magazine?

Take a look inside this week's Catholic Herald
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The big story of the past seven days

✣   lib dem leader reverses stance on abortion what happened? lib dem leader tim farron, who is a christian, found himself in an awkwar...
Staff writers

Mexican priest stabbed while saying Mass

a priest has been stabbed at the altar while celebrating mass in mexico city’s metropolitan cathedral. fr miguel angel machorro was stabbed ...
Staff writers

A split decision on Medjugorje?

on a summer’s day in 1981, two teenagers in a bosnian village reported seeing an apparition of the virgin mary, dressed in startling white a...
Nick Hallett

Stephen White: A city in the grip of Trump fever

the capital of the united states is a peculiar place. an unusually high portion of the people who live in the city and its environs either w...
Stephen White

Comments of the week

don’t miss this chance to help the unborn sir – fifty years ago the abortion act was passed. since then more than eight million abortions ha...
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Lectio Divina

sixth sunday of easter: john 14:15-21 16 the eleven disciples went to the hill in galilee where jesus had told them to go. 17 when they saw ...
Mgr Anthony Abela

Saint of the week: Ursula Ledóchowska (May 29)

from austria to russia born julia ledóchowska in austria in 1865, st ursula entered the ursuline novitiate in kraków aged 21. the ursulines ...
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Pictures of the week

1 the world apostolate of fatima (scotland) brings the pilgrimage statue of our lady of fatima to st andrew’s cathedral, glasgow (photo: pau...
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