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Buddhists and Christians must help promote non-violence, cardinal says

The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue released a message to mark the Buddhist celebration of Vesakh

Italian bishop granted early retirement after begging to return to missionary work

Bishop Gianfranco Todisco asked to be sent 'to the farthest, most disadvantaged' diocese

Catholic News Service

Pope Francis meets sister of Fr Jacques Hamel at service for modern martyrs

Fr Hamel was murdered by ISIS terrorists as he celebrated Mass in his Normandy church

Associated Press

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Fatima seers to be declared saints on May 13

The canonisation ceremony will be held exactly 100 years since the first apparition of Our Lady of Fatima

Junno Arocho Esteves

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Roy Hattersley: 'The Church's real heroes are the little people'

The former deputy Labour leader, a 'hardened atheist', was so intrigued by British Catholics he wrote a 600-page history of them

The biblical crisis that Benedict resolved

Scripture scholars had started to read the Bible as if it were simply a classic text. Benedict XVI helped to change that

Fr Raymond de Souza

The big story of the past seven days

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The best of the blogosphere

✣ highlights from the week online rome must beware anglican-style dialogue at his patheos.com blog, fr dwight longenecker asked whether “the...