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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a terrible battle

tolerance is frequently assumed to be a virtue of the young. in the mass media, age is associated with crabbiness and narrowing of outlook, ...

Taking stock of the thuribles and ‘accidents of grace’ that descended on central London

after an unusually cold and dark start to the weekend in london, the sunday of 2 june proved welcomingly warm and sunny. the favourable turn...

Robert Stephenson Padron

Looking to the example of St Joseph – The purpose of work is not to work

in an address to the christian association of catholic workers in may 1955, pope pius xii established the feast of st joseph the worker, to ...

Dignitas Infinita: To play down free will and original sin is a very dangerous business

the latest reconfiguration of catholic theology to emerge from rome has come in the form of the document dignitas infinita, on human dignity...

Scenes of heroic piety impress priest during Eucharistic exposition in New York

new york – when the national eucharistic pilgrimage passed through the bronx borough of new york city last week, fr roger landry witnessed w...

Another Californian diocese files for bankruptcy due to volume of abuse lawsuits

a sixth california diocese has filed for bankruptcy in the wake of special legislation that eliminated the statute of limitations in cases r...

Zoraya ter Beek deserved doctors who cherished her life as precious

reports  have emerged that zoraya ter beek, a young woman from the netherlands, died on 22 may by euthanasia. she was 29 years old...

BeatriceScudeler

Nuncio to Kenya says secular West is 'self-absorbed' and has 'lost its vigour'

yaoundé, cameroon – archbishop hubertus van megen, the vatican representative in kenya, blames the receding church in europe on the continen...

Ngala Chimton / Crux

The Catholicism and Catholic churches of the North Riding of Yorkshire

the north riding of yorkshire (technically abolished on 1 april 1974) is predominantly a beautiful rural area. it stretches from beyond hawe...

Pilgrimage to Chartres: Tens of thousands travel to celebrate the Traditional Latin Mass

over the recent whitsun weekend i, along with more than 20,000 other pilgrims, descended upon the city of chartres, in a walking pilgrimage ...