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the diocese of youngstown, ohio, has formally opened the cause of the woman who inspired mother angelica to become a nun. more than 1,000 pe...

Staff writers

cardinal walter brandmüller, one of the four cardinals who have asked pope francis to reaffirm church teaching, has discussed the possibilit...

Staff writers

a devastating report emerged before christmas from the care quality commission following inspections of marie stopes international (msi) abo...

Madeleine Teahan

for weeks on end – and at the time of writing – i remain “on standby” to go to mosul in iraq. being on call is one of the most disruptive an...

Colin Brazier

over the past year, the prospect that pope francis would take the church on a trajectory radically different from that of his predecessors h...

Fr Mark Drew

warsaw when a polish bishop recently denied being in dispute with pope francis, it was only the latest sign of controversy over the pontiff’...

Jonathan Luxmoore

in 2004, catholics in europe received an alarming wake-up call when the italian rocco buttiglione was turned down for a european commission ...

Filipe D'Avillez

later this year, a statue of george orwell will stand outside bbc new broadcasting house, cigarette in hand, looking quizzically at passersb...

Caroline Wyatt

the formula for a thriving church sir – it seems to me that your two articles in the pre-christmas edition (december 16) – revealing portsmo...

The Catholic Herald

a day at a time by mary kenny, new island books, £13.99 mary kenny is a veteran journalist who describes her career as the “modest success o...

Charlie Hegarty