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The unnamable violence: Why the West is silent about the wave of desecration

on july 14, parishioners of saint-budoc à porspoder in france learned that a vandal or vandals had vomited in the parish’s holy water stoups...

Matthew Schmitz

The JPII Institute authorities have been caught off guard

the present and future of the pontifical john paul ii theological institute for marriage and family sciences has students and professors of ...

Christopher R. Altieri

World news: from Uruguay to Enugu

salt lake city bishop stands by priest after parents’ protest more than 150 parents have signed a petition calling for the removal of their ...

The best of the web: Cowardice, a late vocation, psychics

why courage can’t be put off till tomorrow at the irish rover, deion a kathawa argued that our “cultural sickness” is closely connected to t...

Prize crossword 0604

cryptic across 1 why best arty type is in welsh university (11) 9 chap to come a cropper hiding west of ireland abbess (7) 10 charge around ...

The royal bully who retired to a monastery

emperor: a new life of charles v by geoffrey parker yale, 760pp, £25/$35 early 16th-century demographics can lead one to wonder how protesta...

Did World War II undermine Catholicism?

mass exodus by stephen bullivant oup, 302pp, £25/$32.95 why catholics leave, what they miss, and how they might return by stephen bullivant ...

Men's brains aren't wired to notice housework

it’s considered now to be a major cause of inequality between men and women, and a prime factor in the “gender imbalance” of society. that i...

Neo-Victorians like Rees-Mogg know what Britain is lacking

i’m very much enjoying our neo-victorian government. i’ve been pushing boris for pm for over a year: i said on bbc question time that theres...

The JPII Institute purge is a sign of weakness, not strength

it’s the beginning of the end for amoris laetitia, the document of pope francis on the family which attempted to change the church...

Fr Raymond de Souza