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Unravelling the Three-Church Problem

in the realm of astrodynamics the so-called three-body problem is one of the oldest challenges in celestial mechanics. it focuses on trying ...

Jubilee 2025 to showcase hope and forgiveness for world scarred by anger, says organising Vatican official

the vatican official charged with organising pope francis’s 2025 jubilee of hope has stressed that the event will focus on hope and forgiven...

‘A light in Spain’: Vatican approves devotion to WWII apparition of Our Lady of Sorrows

the vatican has approved the devotion to the spanish marian shrine of our lady of sorrows of chandavila where the virgin mary reportedly app...

EXCLUSIVE: Vatican wrong to open door to euthanasia, says LCP whistleblower

the doctor who blew the whistle on abuses carried out under the notorious liverpool care pathway (lcp) has warned catholics that new guidanc...

Saints upset people: the cause of World War II heroine Sybil Kathigasu

saints upset people. it is surely impossible to live a life of heroic virtue without igniting the wrath of the wicked. even the relatively g...

Interview: Richard Demarco on the Church, the arts, and the Edinburgh Festival

the first time i interviewed richard demarco was in the late 1980s; we were walking up edinburgh’s royal mile during the festival. he sudden...

The Pontifical Academy for Life and the wisdom of perspective on end-of-life care

demonstrators pray for terri schiavo outside a courthouse in march 2005 . ap rome – hard cases, as the famous legal maxim holds, make bad la...

Something for everyone in 2025: looking ahead to next year's Jubilee

rome is getting ready for an invasion in 2025 – a peaceful invasion of 32 million pilgrims, according to the italian statistics office. shop...

Father Michael Collins

Hyper-sexualisation, 'trans'-formation and evangelisation: just your average summer of ideological sport

this summer has thrown up a festival of sport to watch and enjoy. part of the enjoyment flows from someone who represents you winning glory....

Neo-liberal chaos: from the Olympics’ opening ceremony to the UK riots

various media outlets have reported that the iranian government summoned the french ambassador in order to demand an explanation for the dis...