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Vatican investigates order over euthanasia

the vatican is investigating the decision of a group of psychiatric care centres run by a catholic religious order in belgium to permit doct...

Cardinal who converted captors declared Venerable

pope francis has signed a decree declaring vietnamese cardinal françois nguyen van thuan as venerable. the decree confirms that cardinal van...

Fr John Bollan: How my students caused a power cut in Rome

i’m just back from a few days in rome with 39 pupils from st columba’s high school in gourock, where i’m currently chaplain. anyone who’s be...

Fatima at 100: Fatima’s harrowing message of freedom

at fatima, our lady scared the hell out of the children to whom she appeared. or more precisely, she frightened the children out of hell and...

Fr Raymond de Souza

A theology lesson for Renaissance princes

occasionally artists are also theologians, giving visual form to ideas about god. such was raphael, called to fresco pope julius ii’s apartm...

Mgr Timothy Verdon

‘Catholic’ must be more than just a brand name

catholic social thought edited by david o’brien and thomas shannon, orbis, £30 there are 687 pages in this collection of church documents, r...

Brandon McGinley

Bishops's engagements

cardinal nichols (westminster) sun: celebrates mass at poor clare assembly, high leigh, hoddesdon, 12.00pm. tue: travels to rome, 8.30am. cc...

The Catholic Herald

Prize crossword 0490

cryptic across 1 soldier to head up to region east of the r jordan (6) 4 amun’s place is almost unbeatable (6) 9 short east india man reache...

Piers Paul Reid: The Fatima secret the Church ignores

of the dozen or so sites where the church accepts that mary, the mother of god, has appeared in visions, i have been to three – two as a tou...

Piers Paul Read