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BBC religion reporter steps down

caroline wyatt, the bbc’s religious affairs correspondent, is to step down as a reporter after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (ms) ...

Pope prays for Orthodox as council opens

pope francis offered his prayers on sunday as the first pan-orthodox council opened with nine out of 14 churches. after reciting the angelus...

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Year of Mercy: We need Catholics with ‘attitude’

recently, i visited a remarkable day centre in the south of england that cares for the homeless. it’s called the vine centre and it occupies...

Bishop Philip Egan

Television: Doubt and despair from a junkie genius

i hate sharing good things with other people. i was into hannibal and arrested development long before anyone else was, and i felt a pang of...

What Churchill knew about prisons

something interesting is going on in the criminal justice system that i suspect we’re going to hear more and more about. as part of what cou...

Ordinariate gains its first bishop

pope francis has named mgr steven lopes the first bishop of the ordinariate, which serves groups of former anglicans living in full communio...

The best of the Catholic blogosphere

✣   highlights from the week online a good man maligned tim muldoon of aleteia wrote about the film spotlight, based on the story of ho...

The big story of the past seven days

✣  pope hails 'wisdom of the poor' in nairobi what happened? the pope denounced the conditions slum-dwellers had to live in during...

Something rotten at the heart of Belgium

belgium  is a country that should be dear to all of us, historically. the “rape of belgium” moved many hearts to pity at the start of t...