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Liberalism’s crisis of faith

A new politics of values is replacing an empty politics of freedom for its own sake

Fr Raymond de Souza

The big story of the past seven days

✣  cardinal müller: correction of the pope is unlikely what happened? the vatican’s doctrinal chief, cardinal gerhard müller, has said ...

Turkey’s Catholics are fearful, says bishop

a bishop in turkey has said that catholics are fearful about attending church after recent terrorist attacks, but insisted that christians c...

Church helps broker Congo deal

catholic leaders in the democratic republic of congo have said that they hope for lasting peace after brokering an 11th-hour deal between th...

In brief

i don’t like travelling, admits francis pope francis has told la stampa newspaper that he “never liked travelling much” but feels he must go...

The Vatican clamps down on ‘fake news’

last week the vatican issued a peculiar clarification: spokesman greg burke denied that the pope had called for islam and christianity to “m...

Madeleine Teahan

The knights who won’t retreat

the sovereign military order of malta is one of the more improbable success stories of the 21st-century church. founded in 1099 to provide h...

Abortion policy is stuck in the dark ages

one stark, inescapable conclusion of life as a doctor is that abortion hurts. it may not be a widely publicised conclusion – after all, even...

Liberalism’s crisis of faith

one of the more satisfying recent retrospectives was the look back from the economist, the “newspaper” which offers their readers superlativ...

Fr Raymond de Souza

Mary Kenny: We’ll never wipe out loneliness

yet another report tells us that loneliness in britain today is almost at “epidemic” proportions. according to age uk, half a million people...