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✣ highlights from the week online verifying the bones of st ambrose a forensic team has analysed the relics of 4th-century st ambrose. grego...
Staff writers

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philadelphia keep ‘lgbtq’ out of church documents, says archbishop archbishop charles chaput of philadelphia has told the youth synod that “...
Staff writers

Lay investigation: Reporting on Their Eminences

catholics are divided by the prospect of an inquiry into the college of cardinals few would deny that this is the worst crisis the american ...
Michael Warren Davis

Synod highlights: Major interventions from Week One

from pope francis’s opening speech: the synod we are living is a moment of sharing. i wish, therefore, at the beginning of the synod assembl...
The Catholic Herald

The elephant in the synod

amid procedural changes and doctrinal tension, one issue hangs over this month’s meeting in rome hilaire belloc once remarked that the catho...
Christopher R. Altieri

Fr Raymond J de Souza: Right saint, wrong place

i will be in rome for the canonisation of blessed oscar romero this sunday, but i wish i weren’t – in rome, that is. i would have preferred ...
Fr Raymond de Souza

The synod is all too respectable

when pope francis was elected five years ago, he announced that he wanted to build a “poor church for the poor”. at the synod on youth takin...
Matthew Schmitz

Comments of the week

letters should include a genuine postal or email address, phone number and the style or title of the writer. email: letters@catholicherald.c...
The Catholic Herald

Spiritual books: reviewed by Francis Phillips

in his foreword to the treasure trove of prayer, ancient devotions to the sacred heart of jesus by carthusian monks of the 14th-17th centuri...
Francis Phillips

Who will draft the youth synod's final report?

12 clerics are charged with writing the final documents
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