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the archbishop of merida has ruled out vatican mediation of the venezuelan crisis after president nicolas maduro made public a letter to pop...

Catholic News Agency

arnold of brescia (1090-1155) was, oddly enough, born in brescia, italy. joining a house of augustinian canons in his native city, arnold ro...

Charles Coulombe

louisiana law restricting abortion put on pause the supreme court (pictured) has put a temporary hold on a law that would restrict abortions...

Staff writers

when it comes to news from the pope’s in-flight press conference en route to rome from panama last week, his discussion of the “inflated exp...

Christopher R. Altieri

The danger to Western Christians doesn't come from sword-and-sandals tyrants, but from an enforced code of etiquette

Matthew Schmitz

historians, including some of the good ones, have often proffered sweeping generalisations about american anti-catholicism. you’ll read abou...

Jonathan Wright

to my delight and edification, i discovered that in the extraordinary form the mass of candlemas uses the preface of the nativity. a contemp...

Fr Dominic Allain

"twentysomethings are flocking to anglo-catholic services" shouted a headline in the times above an article featuring my church, st bartholo...

Marcus Walker

pope francis made history this week when he became the first catholic pontiff to visit the united arab emirates – which is to say, the arabi...

Sohrab Ahmari

last weekend the philippines was engulfed by rumours that the country’s mercurial president, rodrigo duterte, had died. the 73-year-old had ...

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