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Pope Francis: You can't defend Christianity by being 'against refugees and other religions'

The Pope told pilgrims that the sin Jesus condemns most is hypocrisy

Catholic News Service

The new global battle over abortion

The simple clash between pro-choice and pro-life camps is giving way to a more complex but no less ferocious struggle

The big story of the past seven days

✣   pope plucks new cardinals from peripheries what happened? pope francis has named 17 new cardinals, 13 of whom are under 80 and thus...

Pope and Welby send bishops on joint mission

the pope and the archbishop of canterbury together sent 19 pairs of catholic and anglican bishops back to their home dioceses last week to p...

The new global battle over abortion

from poland to texas, from chile via indiana to channel 4’s dispatches, the issue of abortion seems to have recovered its political salience...

Mother Russia’s year of mob violence

caught in the revolution by helen rappaport, hutchinson, £25 helen rappaport, author of many studies on russian history, has subtitled her b...

Charlie Hegarty

How 13 cardinals changed the course of history

The letter that proved to be the turning point showed the Holy Spirit was at work in a most unexpected way

Fr Raymond de Souza

The best of the Catholic blogosphere

✣   highlights from the week online what do ecumenical gestures really mean? at his blog archbishop cranmer, the anglican adrian hilton...

Survivor of labour camp is named cardinal

pope francis has named 17 new cardinals including an albanian priest who spent decades in communist labour camps. the list also includes thr...

Pope prays amid rubble left by earthquake

pope francis made a surprise visit to the site of a devastating earthquake in central italy last week and prayed silently and alone amid the...