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What happened when I explained Church teaching about gender on Facebook

First the commenters became angry – then they demanded the thread be shut down

Francis Phillips

Catholic charity to support seminarians across the world after murder of Fr Hamel

Aid to the Church in Need is launching a campaign to support the training of 1,000 new priests

Refugee Olympic Team: 'the victory scream of all refugees'

'They represent the strength it takes to come from nothing,' say refugees following the Games in Brazil

Why Catholics make great football managers

Four of the last five Premier League champions have had Catholic bosses. Surely this can’t be a coincidence

The strange fate of the ‘Easter People’

The excitement around the new Syro-Malabar diocese is not the first time British Catholics have looked forward to change

Damian Thompson

The revival no one expected

With a new cathedral, new orders and new Oratories, could England’s Catholic Church be entering a time of renewal?

Stephen Bullivant

Making parishes work

in a question-and answer-session with the polish bishops during his recent visit to that country, pope francis made some striking observatio...

The Catholic Herald

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✣   highlights from the week online perón and the pope until pope francis’s election, the most famous argentine leader of modern times ...

Dublin seminarians will be sent abroad to study

archbishop diarmuid martin of dublin has said he will no longer send students to the national seminary at maynooth, amid allegations of inap...

Priest hero of Bloody Sunday dies aged 82

bishop emeritus edward daly of derry has died at the age of 82. bishop daly, who helped victims on bloody sunday in 1972, had been suff...