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Vatican jails priest but acquits journalists

a vatican court has acquitted two journalists who published confidential documents but sentenced their source, a spanish monsignor, to 18 mo...

Veteran journalist named papal spokesman

pope francis has named two experienced journalists to lead the vatican press office. greg burke, from st louis in the united states, will su...

Pope reduces Cardinal Pell’s finance role

pope francis has announced a reorganisation of the oversight and administration of the vatican’s financial affairs, a move that appears to h...

Charity founded by Catholics may have to close

the international development charity progressio, which is inspired by catholic social teaching, is considering closing. the charity is stru...

A mind hissing and spitting with fury

the devil’s diary by robert k wittman and david kinney william collins, £20 the story of the devil’s diary opens in god’s garden. in 1945, a...

A witty but alarming take on the Reformation

all things made new by diarmaid macculloch allen lane, £25 diarmaid macculloch is a professor of the history of the church at oxford, an acc...

Jack Scarisbrick

Mass Readings

ordinary form divine office week iv sunday, july 17: 16th sunday in ordinary time gn 18:1-10a; ps 15; col 1:24-28; lk 10:38-42 monday, july ...

The Catholic Herald

Omnium Gatherum

the holy see recently announced that, in the ordinary form calendar of the roman rite, st mary magdalene’s annual liturgical observance on j...

Fr John Zuhlsdorf

Prize crossword 0448

cryptic across 7 two girls, one shortly to be chuza’s wife (6) 8 sail back through attica, edging finally in corinth toward jeroboam’s ...

Catholic universities need Catholic staff, says prominent academic

The president of the Catholic University of America defended the identity of Catholic universities at a conference last week

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