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Could Archbishop Gänswein be made papal nuncio to Baltic states?

rome – rumors set in motion this week by a journalist close to pope francis, elisabetta piqué of argentina’s la nacion , suggest the pontiff...

US cardinal says ‘Dignitas Infinita’ clarifies that LGBTQ Catholics are loved but the Church’s moral teachings still apply

rome – cardinal wilton gregory of washington, dc, has praised the new vatican document on human dignity as a “welcome summation” of church t...

'Dignitas Infinita' is a commendable rebuttal to secular human rights manipulation – but that won't stop the declaration being used by its antagonists to create more waffle

dignitas infinita.  the latin for “infinite dignity”.   the dicastery for the doctrine of the faith’s new declaration on human dig...

Dualta Roughneen

Stop just blaming mobile phones for children’s despair: Parents bringing up children without God isn’t helping either

concerns and platitudes about mental health is all the rage for children these days. over the years, with my three older children at school,...

A Nicaraguan exile on a dictatorship that oppresses both the Catholic Church and a Miss Universe winner

sat at a desk in an office close to westminster cathedral, juan sebastián chamorro appears every inch a distinguished politician. he is a we...

Where is the outcry from British Churches on 'nightmarish' nature of Scotland’s new ‘thought crime’ law?

not so very long ago, there was a simpler time when discussion about jk rowling in catholic circles was generally limited to a discussion be...

Hilaire Belloc's masterful 'The Cruise of the Nona' invites us to navigate life's mysteries

"i am now off to sail the english seas again, and to pursue from thought to thought and from memory to memory such things as have occupied o...

Julian Kwasniewski

Between the Cross and Resurrection: The Harrowing of Hell, according to J.R.R. Tolkien

easter time seems to get me reflecting on tolkien’s catholic imagination. i have previously written about how the dynamic of grace was portr...

Stefan Kaminski

Pontius Pilate and Judas Iscariot: should we have more sympathy for the villains of Christ's Passion?

the lengthiest readings of the liturgical year occur at the liturgy of the passion on good friday, when we hear the longest of isaiah’s “ser...

Fr Richard Ounsworth OP

Legendary and nearly beatified US Army chaplain honoured with statue by Kansas

new york – a catholic priest from the diocese of wichita who served as an army chaplain in both world war ii and the korean war, risking his...