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Pope Francis meets sister of Fr Jacques Hamel at service for modern martyrs

Fr Hamel was murdered by ISIS terrorists as he celebrated Mass in his Normandy church

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Roy Hattersley: 'The Church's real heroes are the little people'

The former deputy Labour leader, a 'hardened atheist', was so intrigued by British Catholics he wrote a 600-page history of them

The biblical crisis that Benedict resolved

Scripture scholars had started to read the Bible as if it were simply a classic text. Benedict XVI helped to change that

Fr Raymond de Souza

The best of the blogosphere

✣ highlights from the week online rome must beware anglican-style dialogue at his patheos.com blog, fr dwight longenecker asked whether “the...

US archbishop appointed nuncio to Great Britain

a 72-year-old american archbishop who has served as nuncio to bangladesh, zimbabwe and the philippines has been appointed the holy see’s amb...

Pope to faithful: be instruments of Christ

jesus is the risen shepherd who takes upon his shoulders “our brothers and sisters crushed by evil in all its varied forms”, pope francis ha...

Pope to visit Egypt despite terrorist attacks

the vatican has confirmed that pope francis will visit egypt next week despite attacks on churches that left at least 45 people dead. greg b...

EWTN chief to advise the Vatican

michael warsaw, chairman and ceo of ewtn global catholic network, has been named by pope francis as an adviser to the vatican secretariat fo...

The biblical crisis that Benedict resolved

before the ninetieth birthday of pope emeritus benedict xvi on easter sunday, tracey rowland published in these pages an appreciation for wh...

Fr Raymond de Souza