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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 ...
Staff writers

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...
Staff writers

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 ...
Dan Hitchens

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

Fatima: the answer to secularism

next year will see the 100th anniversary of our lady’s apparitions at fatima, which took place between may and october 1917, and which culmi...
Donal Anthony Foley

Mary Kenny: When the Church crushed ‘lad culture’

all freshers and new undergraduates attending oxford and cambridge universities are to be given compulsory “sexual consent” lessons. the obj...
Mary Kenny

Comments of the Week

st augustine didn’t bring the gospel to britain sir – in your leading article, “the cost of unity” (september 23), you state that “st gregor...
The Catholic Herald

Pictures of the Week

1 sisters of mercy attend a mass marking 175 years of their presence in handsworth, west midlands, celebrated by archbishop bernard longley ...
The Catholic Herald

Thieves ransack Liverpool's Catholic cathedral

Glass images were smashed and cash stolen early this morning
Madeleine Teahan