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Home Secretary attends Vatican talks

cardinal nichols and pope francis have joined police chiefs and politicians, including home secretary amber rudd, at a conference on modern ...

Pope joins Lutherans to mark Reformation

pope francis has urged christians to “move beyond” the controversies of the past. at an ecumenical prayer service at the lutheran cathedral ...

Archaeologists look into Jesus’s empty tomb

the marble slab on which it is believed that jesus lay after his crucifixion is being studied as part of a $4 million restoration project at...

The battle over St John Paul’s legacy

on the face of it, the closure of melbourne’s john paul ii institute does not seem especially earth-shaking news. true, the institution has ...

The acceptable face of hardline secularism

in late september, justin trudeau addressed the one young world gathering, specifically held in ottawa the better to bask in the glow of the...

Fr Raymond de Souza

The smearing of Stepinac

four boxes of documents in the croatian state archives in zagreb are what remain of the so-called “dossier stepinac”, the udba (yugoslav sec...

Scorsese’s gift to the Jesuits

the discovery of king richard iii’s bones underneath a car park in leicester was one of the hottest news stories of 2012. and it still gener...

Thomas J Craughwell

Comments of the Week

i’m dismayed by the vatican’s edict on ashes sir – although i am not as educated in the ways of the church as some of your contributors clea...

The Catholic Herald

Briefly noted

maria maddalena de’pazzi: the making of a counter-reformation saint by clare copeland (oxford, £55) . when it comes to early modern carmelit...