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Seeing St David: some modern depictions of the patron saint of Wales

there has been a pervasive modern assumption, repeated in many church guide books, that churches dedicated to early saints were a result of ...

Traditional Latin Mass: the latest pawn in the Vatican chess game

vatican politics is beginning to look a little like a chess game. white against black. a battle between those who love the church throu...

Liverpool and Leeds crack down on Latin Mass in parish churches

the bishops of liverpool and leeds have cancelled traditional latin masses in their parish churches in the wake of further restrictions on a...

Judge dismisses 'thought crime' case against duo who prayed outside abortion clinic

a judge in birmingham has acquitted a catholic priest and a pregnancy counsellor of so-called “thought crimes” after police charged the pair...

<strong>Why are more Christians killed in Nigeria than everywhere else combined?</strong>

“allahu akbar!” shouted a terrorist in spain recently as he wounded a priest and killed a sacristan in broad daylight. god is great, certain...

Valentine’s Day diary from Ukraine

by brooks newmark  i have ended up on february 14 in odesa, an old port city on the black sea in southern ukraine. my wife lucy flew ou...

The Catholic Herald

Dublin's appalling new 'St Patrick's Festival' bears no resemblance to the feast day's origins

hot on the heels of rebranding christmas festivities in dublin as "winter holidays" and co-opting st brigid’s day on behalf of a mythical ce...

Dubhaltach O Reachtnin

UK charity Mary's Meals is feeding 2.5 million vulnerable children - and it needs your help

(photo: little josephine has uk charity mary's meals to thank for her lunch at school every day) in the dry and unforgiving landscape of tur...

Same-sex blessings vote shows the CoE favours secular consensus over Christianity

we don’t know who coined the phrase: “whoever was first to discover water, it wasn’t the fish.” but einstein liked it enough to borrow it: “...

The problem with a 'gender-neutral' God

the church of england bishops, we are told, are going to debate whether god should be gender neutral, and thus not referred to as "he" or "f...

Katherine Bennett