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November 29, 2022

Diary: the Knights Hospitaller, the Holy Land, and the miracle of birth

November 29, 2022

Mgr John Armitage reflects on healing grace, the miracle of life, and joy in this season full of superficiality and blessing

Balenciaga: what does the fashion house scandal mean?

November 29, 2022

The Devil doesn’t always wear Balenciaga, writes Katherine Bennett During my teens I fell in with a crowd of disaffected older youths. We skipped school and spent our days in the underpass smoking cigarettes before moving on to harder drugs. I lied to my parents and went clubbing at weekends to notorious goth clubs in the city

Walsingham rector appointed new Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark

November 29, 2022

(Photo credit: Marcin Mazur) Pope Francis has appointed the rector of the Marian shrine at Walsingham as a new Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark. Mgr Philip Moger, 67, a former banker who has served as a priest of the Diocese of Leeds for 40 years, will be ordained on February 21 in St George’s Cathedral London.

Russia hits out at Pope for calling ethnic minority soldiers ‘cruel’

November 29, 2022

The Russian government has condemned comments made by the Pope that some minority groups of soldiers have behaved worse than others in the invasion of Ukraine. “Generally, the cruellest are perhaps those who are of Russia but are not of the Russian tradition, such as the Chechens, the Buryats and so on,” Pope Francis told