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✣   highlights from the week online apostolic secretaries jason craig at catholicexchange.com paid tribute to a figure on the front lin...

Pictures of the week

1 bishop mark o’toole of plymouth with some of the priests and youth at a recent west country regional celebration of the 60th anniversary o...

The Catholic Herald

Mary Kenny: Leadsom in the lion’s den

when we were young feminists we used to chant the slogan “the personal is political”, but now i’ve come to believe that the personal shouldn...

Harry Mount: If I were a rich man ...

when i’m feeling particularly unsuccessful, i console myself with all the luxury goods i don’t want. i was extremely consoled by the di...

The Pontiff’s new American voice

pope francis made two groundbreaking appointments to the vatican press office on monday. his choice as deputy director of the press office w...

Madeleine Teahan

Tatchell plea for Pakistani Christians

britain should stop direct aid to pakistan unless its government acts to protect christians and other minorities, human rights activist pete...

Bishop unveils pastoral reform programme

bishop philip egan of portsmouth has initiated a reform of his diocese’s pastoral practice in response to pope francis’s amoris laetitia. in...

Russian bloodshed, conquest and decline

black dragon river by dominic ziegler penguin, £19.99 the author, asian editor of the economist, relates his journey down the amur river “at...

Charlie Hegarty

A mind hissing and spitting with fury

the devil’s diary by robert k wittman and david kinney william collins, £20 the story of the devil’s diary opens in god’s garden. in 1945, a...

Lectio Divina

luke 10:38-42 38 as jesus and his disciples went on their way, he came to a village where a woman named martha welcomed him in her home. 39 ...

Mgr Anthony Abela