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A tale of three Christmases

In the birthplace of Christianity, the different calendars used by churches mean that Christmas comes more than once a year

Jill, Duchess of Hamilton

The saint with Aristotle on his finger

The next time someone claims that the 16th-century English Church was backward and superstitious, tell them about this ring

Fr Raymond de Souza

Let Christ be born anew

on christmas day we celebrate the moment when god came to us in human flesh. the mystery and event of the incarnation made possible the sanc...

Fr Julian Large

The big story of the past seven days

✣  bombing at cairo church kills women and children what happened? twenty-five people were killed at a church in cairo when a suicide b...

The best of the Catholic blogosphere

✣   highlights from the week online hats off to the fun and practical saturno catholic bloggers leapt to the defence of the clerical he...

In brief

vatican dicastery to look at just war theory cardinal peter turkson has told reporters that the new vatican dicastery for justice, peace and...

Bomb attack on Coptic church kills 24 worshippers

isis has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at a church in cairo that killed 24 christians. the terrorist group named the bomber a...

Pope asks world leaders to ‘banish violence’

pope francis has called for a new style of politics built on peace and pleaded for disarmament, the eradication of nuclear weapons and an en...

Oh, Boris! But actually, he was spot on

when my children were under the age of five, there was a book we enjoyed reading called oh, boris! it was the story of a large, enthusiastic...

Jenny McCartney

The saint with Aristotle on his finger

washington dc martin scorsese’s newly released film about jesuit missionaries in japan, silence, joins other films on the courageous jesuit ...

Fr Raymond de Souza