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Dallas bishop urges prayers after five police officers are shot dead

Bishop Farrell has called the violence 'heartbreaking' and says the city is in shock

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Vatileaks: monsignor and PR expert found guilty of conspiring to leak documents

But Vatican judges acquitted an aide and said they did not have jurisdiction to try Italian journalists

The lesson of Chilcot: we need just war theory more than ever

It is only thanks to just war theory that we can articulate why the invasion was immoral

When Japan’s Christians rose up against the state

Book review: Christ’s Samurai by Jonathan Clements

Jonathan Wright

Miracles aren't 'making a comeback' – they never went away

Millennials believe in miracles, no matter how hard society tries to explain them away

Elizabeth Scalia

Showdown in the Philippines

Cardinal Tagle is a 'Catholic rock star'; President Duterte scorns the Pope and believes in an eye for an eye. Both are loved by the people — so who will prevail?

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Care home is fined for refusing euthanasia

judges in belgium have fined a catholic nursing home for refusing to perform euthanasia on a lung cancer patient on its premises. the st aug...