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Jubilee 2025 to showcase hope and forgiveness for world scarred by anger, says organising Vatican official

the vatican official charged with organising pope francis’s 2025 jubilee of hope has stressed that the event will focus on hope and forgiven...

Saints upset people: the cause of World War II heroine Sybil Kathigasu

saints upset people. it is surely impossible to live a life of heroic virtue without igniting the wrath of the wicked. even the relatively g...

Interview: Richard Demarco on the Church, the arts, and the Edinburgh Festival

the first time i interviewed richard demarco was in the late 1980s; we were walking up edinburgh’s royal mile during the festival. he sudden...

The Pontifical Academy for Life and the wisdom of perspective on end-of-life care

demonstrators pray for terri schiavo outside a courthouse in march 2005 . ap rome – hard cases, as the famous legal maxim holds, make bad la...

Something for everyone in 2025: looking ahead to next year's Jubilee

rome is getting ready for an invasion in 2025 – a peaceful invasion of 32 million pilgrims, according to the italian statistics office. shop...

Father Michael Collins

Hyper-sexualisation, 'trans'-formation and evangelisation: just your average summer of ideological sport

this summer has thrown up a festival of sport to watch and enjoy. part of the enjoyment flows from someone who represents you winning glory....

Neo-liberal chaos: from the Olympics’ opening ceremony to the UK riots

various media outlets have reported that the iranian government summoned the french ambassador in order to demand an explanation for the dis...

Pope celebrates special Vespers at his favourite Rome basilica

for the first time in his 11-year papacy pope francis marked the feast of the dedication of his favourite roman basilica by celebrating vesp...

Cardinal Sean O'Malley's 20-year tenure as Archbishop of Boston ends

on 5 august the vatican announced that pope francis has accepted the resignation of cardinal sean o'malley, one of catholicism’s most influe...

Why did it take a Muslim to persuade the Pope to denounce a disgusting parody of the Last Supper?

rome – whatever one makes of his aims or tactics, there’s no doubt turkish president recep tayyip erdoğan is a formidable political operator...