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Assisted suicide Bill strips freedom of conscience from doctors

doctors in england and wales are to be denied the right to conscientiously object to involvement in assisted suicides under a bill published...

Pope names Archbishop Arthur Roche to Head Liturgy Congregation

pope francis has renewed the leadership of the congregation for divine worship and the discipline of the sacraments (cdw), promoting the dic...

My appeal to end the persecution of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua

i would like to make an appeal to all people of good will to stand in support of the oppressed people of nicaragua, the land of my birth, wh...

Discovering the Gothic foundations of Faith

i can’t quite put my finger on it. when  was  the moment i was converted? was it after a friend, whose virtues stood as a witness ...

The Supreme Court, God and animals

on october 11th something unprecedented is happening in an amicus brief on file at the supreme court which invokes church and western theolo...

Pamfir: A moral tale for our times

julia hamilton is gripped by ukrainian crime thriller pamfir. this stunning film is the feature-length debut of ukrainian director dmytro su...

Glory above the altar: David Ekserdjian’s work on Italian Renaissance Altarpieces

given the sacramental primacy of the altar in the doctrinal and theological economy of the catholic church, altarpieces have necessarily dem...

It's the detail that is rewarding

less than a year after a major refurbishment, the courtauld gallery has already had exhibitions of two of the biggest names in early modern ...

Lucien de Guise

Lady Mabel's Gold: a refreshing sequel to Simon Caldwell's Beast of Bethulia Park

the northern mill town of wigan has an illustrious literary history as the setting for george orwell’s 1937 investigation/memoir  the r...

Elizabeth Thornton

Normal for Norfolk?: Churches, bike rides, Communion, and skateboards

struggling to settle, a skateboarding sister and first communions. why are you here? the question i am asked so frequently is posed not with...