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Q&A with Margaret Giblin of Marymount International School

how often do you offer mass, benediction, etc, and where? do pupils attend confession? all significant events in the school year are marked ...

The Catholic Herald

Perhaps I should leave teaching to the trained professionals

i have sat in numerous hospital waiting rooms over the past few weeks trying to get to the bottom of why one of my children spends most of t...

Olenka Hamilton

Pope Benedict participates in Mass from bed as his condition stabilises

benedict xvi participated in mass from his bed yesterday, the vatican has revealed amid speculation that the pope emeritus is dying. matteo ...

The restoration of Notre Dame Cathedral was a struggle for the soul of France

on sunday, notre dame de paris will be re-opened, re-ordered after the inferno that overcame her. as darkness fell over paris on 15 april 20...

On Pilgrimage With: Sir Stephen Hough

where would you go? probably assisi. i know what has become known as “the franciscan spirit” is really a later, softer invention or adaptati...

The Catholic Herald

Take a leaf out of the US Catholic playbook: Campus ministry at our universities can help save the Church

catholics under 24 years old are precipitating the decline of the church, according to highly-quoted research carried out by the pew researc...

"Jesus walks for me": Pope Francis leads Stations of the Cross in Lisbon

lisbon – in an off-the-cuff speech to young people praying the “way of the cross” with him in lisbon friday, pope francis said the cross is ...

Elise Ann Allen

Seeds of hope in a barren wasteland

the vanishing: faith, loss, and the twilight of christianity in the land of the prophets by janine di giovanni publicaffairs, £22.99, 272 pa...

Pope concelebrates Feast of St Joseph in hospital chapel

on wednesday morning the pope concelebrated mass for the liturgical solemnity of saint joseph in the chapel attached to his private suite on...

The Seven Deadly Sins

anthony kenny introduces our new mini-series. moralists and theologians enjoy attaching numbers to quite abstract entities, such as the four...