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September 06, 2019

Visiting the imprisoned can be a rewarding act of mercy

September 06, 2019

According to the Church, one of the corporal works of mercy is to visit the imprisoned. I was reminded of this in reading The Visits by Christine Brown (published by Austin Macauley, £8.99). For ten years Christine Brown visited young men in a prison and young offenders’ institute. She only stopped being a prison visitor

Why this debate between Christian conservatives matters for everyone

September 06, 2019

Last night, Ross Douthat told a packed hall at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. that the heated disagreement which emerged this past summer between Sohrab Ahmari and David French looks to The New York Times reader like a mere squabble “between radically Christian conservatives.” But Douthat cautioned that in an age of secularism which is

Morning Catholic must-reads: 06/09/19

September 06, 2019

Bishop Erwin Kräutler has described the Amazon fires as a “true apocalypse”. The Pope has ordered officials to tackle the Vatican’s soaring budget deficit (Shawn Carter). A priest captured by Islamists in the Philippines has revealed that he was forced to make bombs under threat of torture. The Economist argues that Africa is “difficult terrain