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Teach future priests that life has grey areas, Pope urges Jesuits

In a meeting with 28 Jesuit priests, the Pope encouraged clergy to practice 'spiritual discernment' when advising those seeking help

Catholic News Service

Scholars divided over authority of Amoris Laetitia

The canon lawyer Kurt Martens said that Amoris Laetitia had to be interpreted in line with previous Church teaching

Priest pulled from rubble says rescue was a 'great miracle'

A priest and nun were among those who survived Wednesday's earthquake against the odds

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Trustees agree to protect whistleblowers at Irish national seminary

Maynooth is under scrutiny after misgivings about the life and governance of the institution

Catholic News Service

So who’s praying for a Trump victory?

Polls suggest Trump is deeply unpopular among Catholics. So why do evangelicals find him so appealing?

Britain's Ordinariate is in peril. Here is how to save it

Hostility from the authorities, and apathy from its own clergy, have put the Ordinariate’s future in danger. But there could be a simple solution

Damian Thompson

No Minister

very few readers of this magazine will have heard of the government minister lord bourne of aberystwyth. a former leader of the conservative...

The Catholic Herald

The big story of the past seven days

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In brief

pope prays for victims of turkey bombing pope francis offered prayers on sunday for the victims of a terrorist attack in turkey. the attack,...