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Pakistan High Court upholds Asia Bibi’s death sentence
Thursday, 16 October 2014
Asia Bibi has lost her appeal against the death penalty
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Justin Bieber ‘told off’ during visit to Vatican
Thursday, 16 October 2014
Pop star reportedly reprimanded for kicking football in Vatican building
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Family synod: Cardinal Napier added to drafting committee
Thursday, 16 October 2014
Updated translation of mid-term report released by Vatican
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Full text: Updated mid-term report on family synod
Thursday, 16 October 2014
Read the English translation of the relatio post disceptationem
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Archbishop Kurtz hopes synod’s final report will ‘refine and clarify’
Thursday, 16 October 2014
The president of the U.S Catholic Bishops spoke to reporters yesterday
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Catholics permitted to eat meat on Boxing Day, say English and Welsh bishops
Thursday, 16 October 2014Boxing Day this year falls on a Friday when Catholics are usually asked to abstain from meat
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Cardinal Kasper: majority of the synod fathers now support Communion for remarried
Wednesday, 15 October 2014
Cardinal Kasper says Pope thinks ‘great majority’ of Catholics support a ‘responsible opening’
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Ann Widdecombe: Church’s ban on Communion for divorced and re-married is ‘unduly harsh’
Wednesday, 15 October 2014
The former Catholic MP said that the teaching caused huge distress
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Cardinal Nichols: Mid-term report has been misinterpreted
Wednesday, 15 October 2014
Cardinal admits report was ‘composed under pressure’
Print Edition: October 17 2014
This week we bring you all the latest detailed coverage on the Extraordinary Synod on the Family and the Italian priest based in Clerkenwell, London who was suddenly recalled to Rome.
Fr Ignatius Harrison explains why we should all pray for John Henry Newman’s canonisation, Alfred Searls reveals which creppy classic has been reborn thanks to Pope Francis and Mary Kenny reminds us that public displays of affection are not a human right.
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Features
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Baron von Boeselager: ‘It’s a tragedy that thousands of years of Christian culture are being destroyed’
Thursday, 16 October 2014
The Grand Chancellor of the Order of Malta discusses the dangers of providing aid in a volatile age
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Daphne McLeod: What I would do if I were bishop for a day
Friday, 10 October 2014
Daphne McLeod has announced her retirement after four decades of fighting for solid catechesis
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Margot Parker: ‘The bishops must meet with Ukip’
Wednesday, 8 October 2014
MEP Margot Parker says her party has a strong Catholic contingent that wants to build bridges with the Church
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‘It’s not possible to feel comfortable’: An interview with the future Bishop of Salford
Tuesday, 30 September 2014In May 2010, Bishop John Arnold told Luke Coppen that his path to the priesthood wasn’t nearly as straightforward as it seems
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Worship makes our lives bigger and better
Friday, 26 September 2014
In this extract from his new book Rowan Williams argues that effective ritual is far from being a retreat to a comforting alternative world
Catholic Life
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Archbishop appoints new rector at Oscott seminary
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Nuncio urges prison inmates to ‘waste time with God’
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Popemobiles put on display at Vatican Museums
Wednesday, October 17th, 2012
NUS’s refusal to condemn ISIS is a product of our bizarre culture of deference
By Max Wind-Cowie