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Pope Francis: You can’t defend Christianity by being ‘against refugees and other religions’

Pope Francis at this morning's audience with a pilgrimage of Catholics and Lutherans from Germany (CNS)

The Pope told pilgrims that the sin Jesus condemns most is hypocrisy

The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb

Mystic Lamb altarpiece unveiled in Belgium after four-year restoration

The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb was unveiled today in St Bavo’s Cathedral

Salman Taseer, right, Governor of Pakistani Punjab Province, listens to Pakistani Christian woman Asia Bibi, left, at a prison in Sheikhupura near Lahore, Pakistan.  (AP Photo/File)

Asia Bibi’s appeal hearing postponed

One of the three judges scheduled to preside at the hearing said he could not hear the case

Pope Francis at this morning's audience with a pilgrimage of Catholics and Lutherans from Germany (CNS)

Pope Francis: You can’t defend Christianity by being ‘against refugees and other religions’

The Pope told pilgrims that the sin Jesus condemns most is hypocrisy

Pope Benedict XVI celebrates the Christmas Eve Mass in St Peter's Basilica in 2012 (AP)

Benedict XVI: liturgy which points East expresses a desire for salvation

Pope Benedict XVI has contributed to a book marking the Ecumenical Patriarch’s 25th anniversary

The ceremonial opening of a transgender bathroom at a high school in Seattle (AP)

Massachussetts transgender bathroom law faces legal challenge

ADF say the new law could force churches to ‘violate their core religious beliefs’

Pope Francis prays during a visit to the Lutheran church in Rome in 2015 (AP)

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John Podesta, left, with White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough in 2014, when Podesta advised the White House (2014)

Clinton campaign chief helped start Catholic organisations to create ‘revolution’ in the Church

John Podesta said: ‘We created Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good’ to help change the Church

Pope Francis speaks during his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on October 12 (CNS)

Pope Francis calls for an immediate ceasefire in Syria

At the end of his general audience, Pope Francis begged fighters on both sides to allow civilians to be evacuated

Diego Maradona at the charity football match in Rome in 2014 (CNS)

Diego Maradona attributes his renewed faith to Pope Francis

The famous sportsman said the Pope was doing a ‘great job’ ahead of charity match in Rome

Monthly checks for surrogate mothers are distributed at a dormitory run by Akanksha Clinic, one of the most organized clinics in the surrogacy business, in Anand, India. (AP Photo/Allison Joyce)

Council of Europe rejects proposals to legalise surrogacy for all member states

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe voted against the proposal

Detroit Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron and Detroit Auxiliary Bishops Michael J. Byrnes, Arturo Cepeda and Donald F. Hanchon lie prostrate before the altar at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Detroit as the Litany of Pardon is read aloud. (CNS photo/Dan Meloy, The Michigan Catholic)

Detroit archdiocese offers ‘Mass for Pardon’ to ‘unleash the Gospel’

The priests asked for pardon over its handling of clerical abuse

Cardinal Onaiyekan: 'It is high time that corrupt judges are expelled from the judiciary' (AP)

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The statue of Our Lady of Fatima overlooks worshippers at the Fatima shrine (AP)

The extraordinary events of Fatima show how much humanity needs God

On the 99th anniversary of the ‘Miracle of the Sun’, Our Lady’s message is still urgent

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The US Supreme Court is once again at the heart of the global struggle over abortion (AP)

The new global battle over abortion

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The simple clash between pro-choice and pro-life camps is giving way to a more complex but no less ferocious struggle

Theresa May sings at Westminster Abbey before her speech on modern slavery last night (PA)

Theresa May’s anti-slavery campaign should make us proud. But the problem is getting worse

The number of those living in slavery has risen by an estimated 10 million since 2014. The PM’s campaign is a good start

Pope Francis presides at 
the family synod last October (mazur/catholicnews.org.uk)

How 13 cardinals changed the course of history

The letter that proved to be the turning point showed the Holy Spirit was at work in a most unexpected way

Robert Harris: he has perhaps understood Pope Francis better than most Catholics

Robert Harris interview: ‘A complete atheist couldn’t write this book’

Robert Harris’s new thriller is set in a conclave. He talks about his love for the Vatican, his respect for the Pope, and how the Gospels left him ‘stunned’

A Palestinian Christian bride enters the Church of Nativity, believed to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, during her wedding celebration in the West Bank town of Bethlehem Saturday Dec. 9, 2006. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Annulment chaos in the Holy Land

Many Arab Christians wanting to divorce resort to converting to another religion

Salman Taseer, right, Governor of Punjab Province, listens to Asia Bibi, left, at a prison near Lahore. Bibi continues to deny blasphemy charges on which she was convicted to death in 2010 (AP)

The Asia Bibi case shames Pakistan’s government – and Britain’s

An ‘ethical foreign policy’ would take action against Pakistan’s blasphemy laws

A cemetery for the unborn in Moscow. The inscriptions are what the unborn children might have achieved: one reads 'famous writer' (AP)

Russians know state-sponsored violence only too well. No wonder they hate abortion

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow is among 300,000 signatories to a new pro-life petition

Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker, is depicted in stained glass at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Staten Island, New York (CNS)

Yes, Tradinistas are left-wing radicals – but that doesn’t make us any less Catholic

Today, the Catholic left is known for dissent. But we can hope for a politics that’s both radical and orthodox

Cardinals and Bishops attend a jubilee mass where the appointment of 17 new Cardinals was announced (AP)

The new list of cardinals proves Pope Francis understands symbol and gesture

The list of cardinals reads like a Prime Minister’s resignation honours list

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