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✣   pope plucks new cardinals from peripheries what happened? pope francis has named 17 new cardinals, 13 of whom are under 80 and thus...

Pope and Welby send bishops on joint mission

the pope and the archbishop of canterbury together sent 19 pairs of catholic and anglican bishops back to their home dioceses last week to p...

How 13 cardinals changed the course of history

The letter that proved to be the turning point showed the Holy Spirit was at work in a most unexpected way

Fr Raymond de Souza

Red hats everywhere

on the flight home from azerbaijan earlier this month, pope francis summed up his approach to picking cardinals. “a little bit of everywhere...

The Catholic Herald

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✣   highlights from the week online what do ecumenical gestures really mean? at his blog archbishop cranmer, the anglican adrian hilton...

Survivor of labour camp is named cardinal

pope francis has named 17 new cardinals including an albanian priest who spent decades in communist labour camps. the list also includes thr...

Pope prays amid rubble left by earthquake

pope francis made a surprise visit to the site of a devastating earthquake in central italy last week and prayed silently and alone amid the...

Is the liturgy a laughing matter?

justin welby was hailed as the “archbishop of banterbury” in a daily mail headline last week after footage of him reducing the pope to fits ...

Madeleine Teahan

The week the abortion lobby lashed out

when cathy newman wrote an article in the daily telegraph last week promoting her dispatches documentary on britain’s pro-life groups, inclu...

Madeleine Teahan

How 13 cardinals changed the course of history

this time last year the second installment of the synod on the family was unfolding in rome, the conclusion of which was as yet unknown. now...

Fr Raymond de Souza