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✣ highlights from the week online disillusionment in the voting booth fr ed tomlinson found election day a gloomy experience. “i cannot reme...

Church ‘is being persecuted in Ireland’

the church in ireland is undergoing “persecution”, with people directing “anger” at clergy, bishops have said. speaking at a priest’s ordina...

Bishops give Pope a list of slain protesters

venezuela’s bishops have delivered a letter to pope francis calling their government a dictatorship and including a list of those killed in ...

Cardinal: attacks on Benedict are diabolical

cardinal robert sarah has hit out at critics of benedict xvi, accusing them of “vulgarity and baseness” in their responses to the former pop...

Why we’re struggling to defeat extremism

isis recruits are often portrayed in the west as having been ordinary people prior to some sudden moment of radicalisation, shortly before t...

The war we’re not fighting against ISIS

to defeat isis, we need something more than a military strategy. a large part of the terrorists’ success lies in their skill at propaganda. ...

‘We’re not used to cardinals here’

last time i met bishop anders arborelius, we were toasting the canonisation of mother elisabeth hesselblad, the bridgetine nun who brought t...

Karl Gustel Wärnberg

Cardinal Kasper chases the spectre of Luther

martin luther: an ecumenical perspective by walter kasper, paulist press, £10 this slim volume weighs in at a mere 43 pages, some of which a...

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

Bishop's engagements

cardinal nichols (westminster) sun: celebration of mass, golden jubilee, church of the sacred heart, park street, berkhamsted, hp4 1hx, 10.3...

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Comments of the week

don’t jump to conclusions on medjugorje sir – a few points regarding the letter on medjugorje from dp collins (june 2). first, he speaks of ...

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