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Why are feminists attacking cathedrals in the Pope's homeland?

If you are opposed to the Church, is setting fire to its buildings the best argument that you can advance against it?

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

The kids are all right

it is the fate of every generation to be defined by its extremes. thus young people today are derided as the “snowflake generation”: thin-sk...

The Catholic Herald

The best of the Catholic blogosphere

✣   highlights from the week online is us christianity in a state of emergency? christian bloggers are currently debating a new book fr...

Secularists face long-term decline, claims study

secularism will decline worldwide while religion grows, according to a new study in the journal evolutionary psychological science. the find...

Father of Spain’s ‘largest family’ dies

the father of a family reputed to be the largest in spain has died aged 56 after a battle with cancer. josé maria chema postigo and his wife...

In brief

four sisters killed in crash in ethiopia four daughters of st anne sisters, including the provincial superior, were killed last week when th...

Finding the hidden streams of spirituality

the third sunday of lent ex 17:3-7; ps 95; rom 5:1-2, 5-8; jn 4:5-42 recently, i read an article about benedict xvi’s visit to britain in se...

Bishop Philip Egan

Splitting hairs over SS-GB

is there a surer sign that a middle-aged man has morphed into a fogey than the sight of him shouting at the television? sunday evening is wh...

When the circus comes to Rome

last month the circus came to the vatican. during pope francis’s weekly general audience, magicians, clowns and acrobats performed on the st...

Thomas J Craughwell

Television: In Broadchurch no one looks innocent

there’s quite a lot wrong with broadchurch (itv, mondays 9pm), the whodunnit set in a village of the damned on the english coast. it’s a vil...