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letter of the week a saint's plea to a young shakespeare sir – joseph pearce (arts, may 10) writes of the jesuit martyr st robert southwell ...

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‘next time you invade italy, don’t start at the bottom.” that was the post-war puckish advice to a british officer from the german general i...

Allan Mallinson

last week pope francis disappointed advocates for the ordination of women. his previous statements on the death penalty and communion for th...

Matthew Schmitz

i first met jean vanier in the unlikely surroundings of the boardroom at goldman sachs. he was a large man, completely at ease in the corpor...

Rosa Monckton

pope francis has long argued that a thoroughgoing response to sexual abuse requires a conversion of heart and of ecclesial culture, rather t...

Fr Raymond de Souza

pope francis introduced reform legislation last week requiring all clerics and religious – men and women – to report abuse, cover-up, or sus...

Christopher R. Altieri

philadelphia pro-lifers rally after ‘shame on you’ videos a series of videos by a pennsylvania politician has prompted more than 1,000 pro-l...

Staff writers

a polish cardinal has provoked anger from italy’s deputy prime minister after climbing down a manhole to restore electricity to a state-owne...

Staff writers

marching for life and a positive future on the letters page of the financial times, john green took issue with another letter-writer, barbar...

Staff writers

what happened? pope francis has disappointed campaigners for women deacons, saying that the commission he appointed to study the subject was...

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