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French Muslims go to Mass in show of unity

in a gesture of solidarity following the killing of a french priest, muslims attended mass in churches and cathedrals across france and ital...

Pictures of the Week

1 participants at an international conference on human trafficking held by the medaille trust in bled, slovenia. 2 a booklet in honour of th...

The Catholic Herald

August 7 to August 13

bishop arnold (salford) mon: meetings, wardley hall. tue: private engagements, wardley hall. wed: ordination mass, ampleforth abbey, 11.30am...

The Catholic Herald

Activist goes from Burmese prison to priesthood

a human rights activist who was jailed for more than a year in burma has been ordained as a catholic priest. fr james mawdsley was freed in ...

Pope Francis at WYD: In Quotations

‘don’t be couch potatoes’ “god wants something from you. god hopes in you. god comes to break down all our fences. he comes to open the door...

The best of the Catholic blogosphere

✣   highlights from the week online crisis for the jesuits despite reports that the jesuit pope has sparked a growth in jesuit membersh...

The big story of the past seven days

✣   islam isn’t a violent religion, says pope after priest’s murder what happened? speaking to journalists on his return flight from wo...

Stuart Reid: Catholicism’s boozy halo

more wine is drunk per head in the vatican than in any other place on earth, according to the california wine institute, which keeps an unfo...

Did Fr Hamel die a martyr’s death?

if we know fr jacques hamel is a martyr, we should be praying to him. if we don’t, then we should be praying for him. these are the very pra...

The saints’ answer to terrorism

the killing on july 26 of fr jacques hamel, as he said mass in normandy, brings sharply to mind the priests the church has lost to murder ac...