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Traditional Latin Mass: Beyond borders

britain gains its first ‘personal parish’ for the extraordinary form “as a general rule,” the code of canon law says, “a parish is to be ter...

Diary: by Michael Hodges

i am writing this on the feast of our lady of walsingham, overlooking the terrace of villa palazzola outside rome, which offers stunning vie...

Interview: Metropolitan Hilarion on the Orthodox crisis

when i met the senior russian orthodox official metropolitan hilarion in lisbon last week, i asked him about the current crisis in the ortho...

Filipe D'Avillez

Orthodoxy on the brink

for centuries, the archbishops of constantinople could credibly claim to be the “ecumenical patriarch”. their see was the “new rome”, centre...

The irony of the China deal

last week, the vatican signed a concordat with a totalitarian regime. the chinese government, which has harassed and tortured millions of ch...

Matthew Schmitz

Varadkar’s tradition

relations between britain and ireland certainly have deteriorated over brexit – and in particular over the headache of the border. the repub...

‘We carried the Gospel with empty hands’

the asian nation’s first cardinal on persecuted minorities, democracy’s rebirth and his small but growing flock until recently, burma seemed...

Angelo Stagnaro

Prize crossword 0561

cryptic across 1 cell-phone centre in alabama? (6) 4 book to ban at university and church (6) 9 switch to boost signals on the roof, perhaps...

A psychopath? No, Ribera was an unflinching realist

Jusepe de Ribera is far more than a Caravaggio tribute act, says Will Gore

Morning Catholic must-reads: 27/09/18

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