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✣   highlights from the week online pro-lifers must beware how they wield truth alexi sargeant of first things identified a “danger” fo...

Catholics shelter Copts fleeing terrorists

catholic churches and schools are offering shelter to coptic orthodox families fleeing isis in egypt’s north sinai region. fr rafic greiche,...

Cardinal: we’re not blocking reform on abuse

the vatican’s doctrinal chief has dismissed accusations that vatican officials are resisting recommendations on best practices for protectin...

Do clerical abusers also deserve mercy?

it was the sort of headline which only appears in the nightmares of vatican press officers. “pope quietly trims sanctions for paedophile pri...

Madeleine Teahan

The end of the ‘Hitler’s Pope’ myth

it has scarcely been noticed in britain, but a remarkable development has recently taken place in holocaust studies. nearly two years ago, t...

Fr Leo Chamberlain OSB

Let’s be clear on conscience

in a recent letter to this magazine, wilfred jones, a younger, and clearly devout catholic, describes his and his friends’ doubts about pope...

Quentin de la Bedoyere

Comments of the week

as a prisoner, i know bishop moth is right sir – i write to offer my gratitude to bishop richard moth for highlighting the desperate fact th...

The Catholic Herald

This Lent, rediscover Oxford’s forgotten poet

in early 14th-century oxford, surrounded by some of the foremost theologians of medieval europe, a franciscan friar named william herebert w...

Briefly noted

care for creation by pope francis (orbis/alban books, £12.99) . this collection of the writings, speeches and homilies of pope francis spell...

Omnium Gatherum

each year during the first full week of lent, catholics for centuries have observed the ember days. there are four sets of these days (wedne...

Fr John Zuhlsdorf