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the vatican announced friday that the next world meeting of families will focus on the vocation of married life as a path to holiness with a...

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last november, following the pennsylvania grand jury allegations of episcopal cover-up in clerical abuse cases, the us bishops met in baltim...

C C Pecknold

cryptic across 5 place in honour of herod’s dad non-pc participants find revolting... (10) 7 ...and others find limited, as expressed in rom...

The Catholic Herald

the perfect is the enemy of the good, it is said. so in a perfect world there would be many multiples of the 5,000 people who turned out for...

Fr Dominic Allain

letter of the week a saint's plea to a young shakespeare sir – joseph pearce (arts, may 10) writes of the jesuit martyr st robert southwell ...

The Catholic Herald

‘next time you invade italy, don’t start at the bottom.” that was the post-war puckish advice to a british officer from the german general i...

Allan Mallinson

last week pope francis disappointed advocates for the ordination of women. his previous statements on the death penalty and communion for th...

Matthew Schmitz

i first met jean vanier in the unlikely surroundings of the boardroom at goldman sachs. he was a large man, completely at ease in the corpor...

Rosa Monckton

marching for life and a positive future on the letters page of the financial times, john green took issue with another letter-writer, barbar...

Staff writers

what happened? pope francis has disappointed campaigners for women deacons, saying that the commission he appointed to study the subject was...

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