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Dan Hitchens

March 23, 2017
In many ways, says Fra’ Matthew Festing, it’s a relief not to be His Most Eminent Highness the Prince and Grand Master of the Knights of Malta. Overseeing the order’s aid work around the world was rewarding, he says, but “you’re dealing with utterly silly minutiae all the time, rivalries and difficulties and unpleasantnesses.” So
March 22, 2017
Fra' Matthew Festing said if the Order of Malta wanted him to return, he would have to consider it
March 21, 2017
The former leader of the Knights of Malta speaks out for the first time since the Pope asked for his resignation
March 16, 2017
In 2005, at a Vatican synod on the Eucharist, Cardinal Angelo Scola floated a trial balloon. “To confront the issue of the shortage of priests,” the then Patriarch of Venice said, “some … have put forward the request to ordain married faithful of proven faith and virtue, the so-called viri probati.” The cardinal’s balloon did
March 02, 2017
Egypt has the largest Christian community in the Arab world. But as we were sadly reminded last week, that does not make the country a model of peaceful integration. On Sunday February 19, ISIS released a video calling for increased violence against Egyptian Christians. In recent weeks, Coptic Christians in the Sinai Peninsula have been
February 22, 2017
Corpus Christi is being renovated to reflect its role as a centre of Eucharistic devotion
February 16, 2017
On Sunday, as he accepted a Bafta for I, Daniel Blake, Ken Loach said his film told the truth about a callous Britain. “The most vulnerable and poorest are treated by the Government with a callous brutality that is disgraceful,” he said, “a brutality that extends to keeping out refugee children we promised to help,
February 15, 2017
Cardinal Coccopalmerio's book is only the latest example of Catholic teaching being questioned
February 15, 2017
Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio has published a book on Amoris Laetitia
February 14, 2017
Caritas Salford have appointed a full-time officer to help parishes sponsor a refugee
February 13, 2017
The cardinal said that it would be 'shocking' if the Government abandoned its moral duty
February 09, 2017
The SSPX is often referred to in the secular media as an “ultra-traditionalist” or “extremist” body. This risks exhausting the adjectives needed to describe the many groups who self-identify as Catholic. For one thing, the SSPX has itself been divided. Some members have decided that submission to Rome is a sine qua non, and formed
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