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July 07, 2016

Vatileaks: monsignor and PR expert found guilty of conspiring to leak documents

July 07, 2016

But Vatican judges acquitted an aide and said they did not have jurisdiction to try Italian journalists

There’s a good reason that annulments in India now have no legal force

July 07, 2016

India's Supreme Court has made technical bigamists of Catholics who have remarried after an annulment. But it has not acted unreasonably

Pope names Archbishop Cupich to Congregation for Bishops

July 07, 2016

Archbishop will have significant influence over future episcopal appointments in the United States

The lesson of Chilcot: we need just war theory more than ever

July 07, 2016

It is only thanks to just war theory that we can articulate why the invasion was immoral

What’s inside this week’s magazine?

July 07, 2016

Take a look inside this week's magazine

Word This Week

July 07, 2016

The Fifteenth Sunday of the Year: Deut 30:10-14 ; Col 1:15-20; Lk 10:25-37 (Year C)

When Japan’s Christians rose up against the state

July 07, 2016

Book review: Christ’s Samurai by Jonathan Clements

Miracles aren’t ‘making a comeback’ – they never went away

July 07, 2016

Millennials believe in miracles, no matter how hard society tries to explain them away

Showdown in the Philippines

July 07, 2016

Cardinal Tagle is a 'Catholic rock star'; President Duterte scorns the Pope and believes in an eye for an eye. Both are loved by the people — so who will prevail?

Brexit ‘won’t affect pilgrimages to Lourdes’

July 07, 2016

A pilgrimage director has dismissed claims that Lourdes pilgrims will suffer following Britain's withdrawal from the EU

The blessing of Benedict

July 07, 2016

Benedict XVI is still a presence in the life of the Church. This is extraordinary for so many reasons. Most Catholics assumed that he would be silent by now, either because he had retreated into Trappist silence or because, to employ a gentle euphemism, he was “no longer with us”. Instead, he is planning a

Comments of the Week

July 07, 2016

The need the welfare state can’t meet SIR – The question by Matthew Schmitz’s friend, Tom Holland – “What is the Church offering that can’t be done by the welfare state?” – is intriguing because it points to an unresolved paradox of history (Feature, July 1). That is to say that before the brutal dissolution