Pope Francis

Mother Teresa’s terrifying premonition

Working at her side as the West prepared for war with Saddam Hussein, I saw her dread as she glimpsed the future of Middle Eastern Christianity

Fr Alexander Sherbrooke

The big story of the past seven days

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In brief

mother teresa booklet sent to surrey parishes a booklet about mother teresa will be distributed in all surrey parishes this weekend. mother ...

Surprise jump in pupils taking Religious Studies

new figures show an increase in the number of pupils taking religious studies at both gcse and a level. entries to religious studies gcse ha...

Benedict XVI: I felt a duty to resign

benedict xvi has said in an interview that he felt a “duty” to resign from the papacy because of his declining health and the demands of pap...

Two nuns stabbed to death in their home

a man has been arrested by police in mississippi after two women religious were found stabbed to death in their home. sister margaret held, ...

Mother Teresa’s terrifying premonition

those of us who knew her feel a twinge of guilt writing about blessed teresa of calcutta. mother’s life was always about the other, about je...

Fr Alexander Sherbrooke

Briefly noted

faith and struggle on smokey mountain by benigno p beltran (alban books, £18.99) . the author, a filipino priest of the society of the divin...

Football: the other religion of Argentina

angels with dirty faces by jonathan wilson, orion, £20 some of the best sports books of recent times have sought to survey the football cult...

Pictures of the Week

1 mother abbess máire hickey and justice peter kelly, president of ireland’s high court (far right), were added to notre dame’s roll of hono...

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