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Beijing knows it is losing the battle of ideas over Hong Kong
The regime is so alarmed that it is even disrupting private meetings in Europe
Pope fiction: a new film could entrench myths about Benedict and Francis
An Oscar-tipped film starring Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce may reinforce popular misconceptions about Benedict and Francis
The Viganò affair has revealed the depth of the Church’s crisis
Since he issued his ‘testimony’ last August, Archbishop Viganò has been in hiding. So what does his intervention tell us about the Church?
Big families will be the next target in the culture wars
An angry lobby declares that we need to cut family size to save the planet. It’s time to fight back
The unnamable violence: Why the West is silent about the wave of desecration
When churches are desecrated, statues smashed and priests attacked, the once-Christian West doesn’t know how to respond
Half of US Catholics think the Eucharist is only symbolic. How did this happen?
A great divide has opened between those who believe in a revealed religion, and those who believe it is all a symbol
‘You ask them: Are you serious?’: An interview with Cardinal Arinze
Cardinal Francis Arinze discusses mass migration, priestly celibacy and confusion over Church teaching
What China’s Catholics really think of the Vatican deal
A secret agreement between Beijing and the Holy See has left the faithful facing confusing dilemmas
Cardinal Newman saved both our lives
Melissa Villalobos was critically ill and in danger of losing her unborn child. Then she turned in desperation to her ‘spiritual father’
