Pope Francis

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

Staff writers

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

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

Michael White

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

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

what will the verdict of history be on david cameron? what, in particular, might the verdict be sub specie aeternitatis? it should be good. ...

Piers Paul Read

duterte is the only hope for the philippines sir – on returning to the philippines after 10 years in england, after a particularly exasperat...

The Catholic Herald

mission to satsuma the madrid-born francis de morales entered the dominican order as a young man and was sent to japan. he served first in t...

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Luke Coppen

Pope Francis tells pilgrims not to put limits on the scope of Christ's mercy

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