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To make real progress Catholics and Anglicans must look to Scripture

Female ordination and sexuality are surface issues. The root of the problem lies in different views on Scripture and tradition

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

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Proposed synod on married priests ‘was voted down by Pope’s advisers’

The synod will instead focus on 'Young People, Faith, and Vocational Discernment'

The big story of the past seven days

✣   papal visit draws small crowd what happened? there was a record low turnout for the closing papal mass in georgia. according to the...

The best of the Catholic blogosphere

✣   highlights from the week online trying to find a francis effect has the pope failed? yes, suggests matthew schmitz in the new york ...

Three cardinals back marriage appeal

six bishops, three of them cardinals, have signed a statement reaffirming the church’s teachings on marriage and morality. the declaration o...

The ‘weapon’ that broke Boko Haram

“the reason i’m sitting here before you,” bishop oliver doeme tells me mid-interview, “is the grace of god.” for a moment i think this is a ...

Our quest to bring ISIS to justice

listening to karlus’s testimony was almost unbearable. when i had asked him how he felt about isis, he had looked at me with his kind, tired...

Alexandra Tompson

Priests must be seen to be believed

in poland, where i often work as a correspondent, it is routine to see priests and nuns in their cassocks and habits in the shops, queuing a...

Jonathan Luxmoore