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Rood awakenings in East Anglia – The Golden Legend, by Michael Hodges

the golden legend michael hodges   self-published, £35, 320 pages this encyclopaedic study of the artworks in the churches of east...

EXCLUSIVE: Church where mystic received ecstasies faces closure after Latin Masses halted

the catholic church in which the victorian mystic teresa higginson was said to have received rapturous visions of the crucifixion is threate...

California's Original Sin (It's Not What You Think)

a priest once asked me how california got to be the morally decadent place that it is, and my answer — the gold rush — took him by surprise....

JeffreyCulbreath

The problem with the 'new allegations' against St John Paul II

as a child in poland in the 1950s, my mother lived squeezed into a single room in the centre of krakow, with her father, brother, aunt, uncl...

Olenka Hamilton

The 'right to sex' was a step too far for the Supreme Court, but they still have questions to answer

legal decisions don’t normally make for exciting reading, but can tell you a great deal about what happens when legislators a...

Prof Andrew Tettenborn

Mexican court sides with diocese in transgender row over baptismal certificates

a court in mexico has thrown out an attempt by a transgender activist to force the catholic church to doctor baptismal records to reflect a ...

Failure to find bodies ends Canada's inquiry into mass burials at Church-run schools

the canadian government has halted an inquiry into claims of mass burials of children at former church-run residential schools – after not o...

Christians banned from villages in Chhattisgarh, India as religious hostility increases in state

Christians in India have been banned from living in their villages unless they renounce their faith.

Bearing witness on back-to-back Caminos

as the litany of the saints reverberated down rúa do franco, i couldn’t have felt more self-conscious. it sounded like there was some latter...

Texas priest who slandered Pope Francis removed by San Antonio archbishop

new york – a priest in texas who recently called pope francis a “usurper” has had his faculties for public ministry removed by archbishop gu...