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January 18, 2018

Amber Rudd asks public to have their say on pro-life vigils

January 18, 2018

Home Office is considering new powers to prevent alleged 'harassment' outside abortion clinics

Pope marries flight attendants on papal plane in Chile

January 18, 2018

The couple were unable to marry sacramentally after their church was destroyed in an earthquake

Palliative care nurses quit ‘houses of euthanasia’

January 18, 2018

Belgian nurses say the country's growing euthanasia culture is in 'complete contradiction' to their training

What has the BBC done to Father Brown?

January 18, 2018

Chesterton's clerical detective seems to have converted to Unitarianism

The unorthodox nuns who taught Meghan Markle

January 18, 2018

Meghan Markle was educated by the Immaculate Heart Sisters of California - as I was. But the religion we were taught was quite different

What’s really behind the push for ‘buffer zones’?

January 18, 2018

The abortion lobby is running scared. No wonder it's targeting pro-lifers

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January 18, 2018

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Rebuilding bridges

January 18, 2018

On the last Sunday in January, Pope Francis will step across the threshold of the Basilica of Santa Sofia in Rome. For decades this exotic-looking building served as the mother church of Ukrainian Greek Catholics while they were being ruthlessly suppressed in their homeland. The visit is a delicate one for Francis, who has had

The big story of the past seven days

January 18, 2018

✣ Pope makes difficult trip to Chile and Peru What happened? Pope Francis has travelled to Chile, where he faces challenges including a hostile population and the aftermath of an abuse scandal. He arrived in Monday for a visit which will include meetings with political and religious leaders and a visit to the shrine of Majpu.

The best of the Catholic blogosphere

January 18, 2018

✣ Highlights from the week online A dispute over a papal decision of the 1850s In First Things, Fr Romanus Cessario wrote a book review which sparked controversy. The book was a newly published memoir by Edgardo Mortara, who was born in 1851. Mortara was born in the Papal States to Jewish parents. As a

Britain’s newest community gains convent

January 18, 2018

The newest religious community in the English Church has received the keys to its first convent. The Community of Our Lady of Walsingham (COLW), founded in 2004, has bought a converted barn complex in Dereham, Norfolk. The community, which has five professed Sisters and seven lay associates, runs the Dowry House retreat centre at Walsingham.

Bishop outraged by ‘hypocrisy’ of locked churches

January 18, 2018

A bishop has criticised Catholic churches that remain locked during the day and called on them to stay open like their Anglican counterparts. Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth tweeted his exasperation at failing to find a single Catholic church open during a trip outside his diocese. He wrote: “Why oh why?! Just spent a few