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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...

Piers Paul Read: The school of gender neutrality

it is an irony that a school named after st paul should have an ethos that so radically contradicts the apostle’s views on the role of women...

Piers Paul Read

Catholic politicians who support abortion and assisted suicide are 'confusing' Catholics, say New Mexico bishops

Catholic lawmakers in New Mexico have said that their faith informs their support for abortion

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Morning Catholic must-reads: 16/03/17

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