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Donald Trump has shaken the liberal order. Where does that leave Christians?

Should Christians regard the Trump presidency with hope or trepidation?

Matthew Schmitz

The best of the Catholic blogosphere

✣   highlights from the week online francis in no mood to reach out to critics pope francis was not in a reconciliatory mood over the h...

Dubia cardinal: this is about eternal salvation

one of the four cardinals who have asked the pope to clarify his apostolic exhortation on the family, amoris laetitia has said that it matte...

Storm over Maltese bishops’ Communion guidelines

malta’s bishops have said that remarried people should receive communion if they think they are at peace with god. in a new document, “crite...

Knight appeals against dismissal

the ousted ‘foreign minister’ of the ancient lay catholic order, the order of malta, has appealed against his suspension to the knights’ int...

The first leader of Opus Dei’s new era

after st josemaría escrivá founded opus dei, he took care to ensure its future. the organisation’s big idea was to help people in ordinary l...

The enemy of my enemy

on the night of barack obama’s election in 2008, the princeton campus erupted in ecstatic shrieks and sighs. i had not voted for obama, and ...

Matthew Schmitz

Rumours, leaks and dodgy dossiers

when did the word “dossier” become so sinister? if you’re eager to ratchet up the tension or create a sense of skulduggery then the other op...

Jonathan Wright

The hate crimes Britain ignores

they wrote “christian dogs” on his home. at school, his children were told by fellow pupils: “we can’t play with you, you’re christians.” si...

Daniel Blackman

The Stones of Buildwas

who would have thought that the accidental discovery, while out on a sunday walk along the river severn, that a run-down priory was for sale...