Latest News
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Ban on British monarch marrying a Catholic to be lifted
Monday, 31 October 2011The 300-year-old Act of Settlement is to be reformed following the unanimous agreement of 16 Commonwealth nations
Vatican calls for global government to oversee markets
Friday, 28 October 2011
Vatican department says only a global government can rein in the ‘equalities and distortions of capitalist development’
Pope at Assisi: People still seeking faith are ‘pilgrims of truth’ too
Thursday, 27 October 2011
Benedict XVI tells 300 religious leaders that believers must ‘purify their faith’ to help peace
Pope prays that Assisi moves world towards peace
Wednesday, 26 October 2011
Benedict XVI says he hopes the meeting will promote dialogue in a world ‘still torn by hatred’
Interim director takes over at the Catholic Education Service
Friday, 4 November 2011
Fr Marcus Stock, general secretary of the bishops’ conference, has taken over as interim director
Ireland to close embassy to Holy See
Friday, 4 November 2011
Ireland’s foreign minister says closure is for economic reasons and is not related to the Cloyne report row
Pope prays G20 summit will help world’s poor
Thursday, 3 November 2011
Benedict XVI also talks about death and eternal life at weekly general audience
SSPX leaders have rejected Vatican statement, says superior
Wednesday, 2 November 2011
Newsletter from district superior of Britain says Vatican doctrinal preamble has been deemed ‘completely unacceptable’
England to welcome the heart of Curé d’Ars
Wednesday, 2 November 2011
The heart of the patron saint of priests, St John Vianney, will be venerated in the Diocese of Shrewsbury next summer
Print edition 04.11.11
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Features
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The cardinal who triumphed over Stalin
Wednesday, 5 October 2011In 1941 a young priest was condemned to death by the Soviets. He was to become one of the Church’s great leaders
The Tyburn Tree bears abundant fruit
Wednesday, 28 September 2011
A new film shows the amazing growth of a contemplative order whose convent stands near the notorious execution spot, says Simon Caldwell
The German pope who took on the secular world
Tuesday, 1 November 2011
An extract from Eamon Duffy’s new book, Ten Popes Who Shook the World
‘The pro-life lobby got into a real mess’
Thursday, 20 October 2011
The improbable MP Louise Mensch tells Catherine Lafferty why she is taking a pragmatic approach to reforming our abortion laws
The loss that led us to Mother Church
Thursday, 13 October 2011
Siri Abrahamson explains how she and her husband were drawn to the Catholic faith after their life changed forever on a winter’s day
Catholic Life
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Joyous day at Thomas More School
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Triduum honours Our Lady
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Author hails art of Newman
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
Comment & Blogs
Morning Catholic must-reads: 08/11/11
By Luke Coppen
Closing the embassy to the Holy See – the one cut the Irish government enjoyed
By Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Jimmy Savile’s obituaries mentioned his charity work: but why the conspiracy of silence about his faith?
By William Oddie
Why has Tesco thrown its enormous weight behind a gay pride event?
By Francis Phillips
Morning Catholic must-reads: 07/11/11
By Luke Coppen
How great tragedy inspires great art
By Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Morning Catholic must-reads: 04/11/11
By Luke Coppen
Modern scientific slaughter is more barbaric than violence by primitive peoples
By Francis Phillips