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Boost for seminary whistleblowers

the trustees of ireland’s national seminary have agreed to bring in a policy to protect whistleblowers after serious allegations were made a...

Benedict XVI: I felt a duty to resign

benedict xvi has said in an interview that he felt a “duty” to resign from the papacy because of his declining health and the demands of pap...

Two nuns stabbed to death in their home

a man has been arrested by police in mississippi after two women religious were found stabbed to death in their home. sister margaret held, ...

What can Mass-goers do to stop terrorists?

mass at st joseph’s church in medan, indonesia, took a blood-curdling twist last sunday when an 18-year-old suddenly left his pew and ran to...

Madeleine Teahan

Mother Teresa’s terrifying premonition

those of us who knew her feel a twinge of guilt writing about blessed teresa of calcutta. mother’s life was always about the other, about je...

Fr Alexander Sherbrooke

A survival guide for teenage girls

teenage girls are kind of a mess, according to the telegraph. in britain more than one in three girls aged 14 to 15 suffers from anxiety or ...

The civil rights leader who admired Stalin

w.e.b. du bois by bill v mullen, pluto press, £14.99 when w.e.b. du bois died in august 1963 he was, writes bill mullen, a “hero to friends”...

Jonathan Wright

Searching for utopia, with limits

when i was a child there was a popular song whose chorus repeated this line: “everyone is searching for utopia.” and we all are. every one o...

Fr Ronald Rolheiser

Rita Ora to sing for Pope Francis on eve of Mother Teresa's canonisation

The singer will help celebrate the Blessed's Albanian heritage in a concert at St Peter's Basilica

Catholic missionaries choose to stay in South Sudan despite attack on foreign aid workers

South Sudanese troops launched the brutal attack in mid-July in a Juba hotel

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