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✣   highlights from the week online officials 'rejected' saint mother teresa was “rejected” by the northern irish church hierarchy, acc...

Norfolk convent nearly doubles its numbers

a norfolk convent has welcomed five prospective sisters, almost doubling its numbers. the additions to the daughters of divine charity bring...

Pope hails new saint as a model of mercy

pope francis hailed mother teresa as a “tireless worker of mercy” as he proclaimed her a saint on sunday. despite the formality of the occas...

Massacre survivor: we live or die with our poor

the only sister to have survived a terrorist attack on a missionaries of charity-run care home in yemen in march has given her testimony to ...

Religious vow to stay in South Sudan

a group of catholic missionaries are choosing to stay in south sudan even after most foreign aid workers have left. the exodus began after s...

Pope proposes care for earth as a work of mercy

pope francis has proposed adding the care of creation to the traditional list of corporal and spiritual works of mercy. as a spiritual work ...

A deadly dilemma for Cardinal Tagle

last week, as the bodies of alleged drug dealers piled up on the streets of the philippines, the nation’s leading churchman finally broke hi...

Madeleine Teahan

Handel’s Catholic temptation

georg frideric handel was a lutheran, and a determined one. he resolved, according to his early chronicler john mainwaring, “to die a member...

Our priestly fraternity is about to make history

new priests bring lasting joys for all, and graces from god. even more so when they are ordained locally. we at the priestly fraternity of s...

Fr Armand De Malleray

After Brexit, read Shakespeare

the quality of mercy is not strained it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. it is twice blest: it blesseth him t...

Dr James Whitehead