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Parolin calls for coexistence with Palestinians as Israel presses Vatican on 'ambiguities'

rome – on a day in which israel objected anew to efforts by christian leaders to be even-handed in their approach to the new war with hamas,...
Crux Staff

'To Hamas, death, not life, is the prize'

minus the hebrew and arabic street signs and the garish posters of local politicians, the sunny tree-lined streets of sderot could almost be...
Georgia L. Gilholy

As Pope appeals for peace, Israel warns Vatican against false ‘parallelisms’

rome – a massive and deadly surprise offensive from hamas in recent days has prompted israel to declare war, drawing appeals from pope franc...
Elise Allen

The makings of a 'CarMelkite': How life as a Carmelite nun helped me better savour Eastern Catholic liturgies

in a world where distractions are ever-present and self-aggrandisement is mistaken as confidence, there comes a time in everyone’s life duri...
Buchi Akpati

How the Gospel presents the choice offered to us by Christ’s crucifixion

september sees the feast of the exaltation of the cross, and as the newly elected prior (much to my astonishment) and new parish priest of h...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP

The Transfiguration: an image of Christ’s revelation to the world

a damaged icon of the transfiguration laid out near the wreckage of transfiguration cathedral in odesa after a missile strike on july 23, 20...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP

Romans: Through baptism we will be resurrected with Christ into a new life

the month of july finds us firmly in ordinary time, and our gospel readings are from matthew. our second readings, however, are from the let...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP

Why the Book of Samuel is my favourite in the Bible, by Andrew Roberts

‘there was a certain man from ramathaim, a zuphite from the hill country of ephraim, whose name was elkanah son of jeroham, the son of ...
Andrew Roberts

Nitisma: The fast way to happiness

when was the last time you saw a book on greek orthodoxy with encomiums from jamie oliver and claudia roden on the cover? well, this is what...
Gertrude Clarke

The problem with a 'gender-neutral' God

the church of england bishops, we are told, are going to debate whether god should be gender neutral, and thus not referred to as "he" or "f...
Katherine Bennett