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Benedict XVI performed exorcism in St Peter’s Square, claims priest
Friday, 3 February 2012Exorcist Fr Gabriele Amorth claims that papal blessing released two men from possession
Welsh leaders oppose ‘presumed consent’ for organ donations
Friday, 3 February 2012
Church leaders in Wales have criticised government plans to introduce presumed consent for organ donation.
English Heritage blocks Ince Blundell Hall sale
Friday, 3 February 2012Augustinian Canonesses hope that sale of Roman and Greek marbles will help them to maintain nursing home
Benedictines to sell church treasures worth £100,000
Thursday, 2 February 2012
Chalices, church plate, reliquaries and a monstrance are being sold at an auction next week
Bishops who mishandle abuse must be accountable, says Vatican official
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
Mgr Scicluna says existing canon law should be used to punish Church leaders who are negligent
Benedict XVI: Do not be indifferent to the fate of others
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
In his Lenten message the Pope warns against ‘spiritual anaesthesia’ which numbs people to suffering
Abuse victim tells bishops of her suffering
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
In her address Marie Collins calls for stronger penalties for bishops and other Church leaders who cover up abuse
Catholic MP: thousands of Christians may be killed if Assad regime falls
Tuesday, 7 February 2012
Edward Leigh says that Christians have found an ‘oasis of relative calm’ under the ‘nasty’ regime
Vatican officials reject nuncio’s ‘corruption’ charge
Sunday, 5 February 2012
Statement makes unusually public rebuke of a high-ranking colleague
Print edition 03.02.12
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This week, Fr Tim Gardner OP suggests two simple steps to renew our schools; Marie Collins, a clerical abuse victim, tells Madeleine Teahan what she will say to the world’s bishops in Rome next week; Peter Stanford celebrates Cafod’s 50th birthday; Piers Paul Read examines who was to blame for the Dreyfus Affair; and Caroline Farrow calls for a new movement of pro-life feminism.
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Features
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We ought to applaud ‘real-life superheroes’
Thursday, 26 January 2012Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith says that Catholic teaching offers support to the self-styled superheroes fighting crime from Yeovil to Seattle
We’ve felt the joy of coming home
Friday, 13 January 2012
On the first anniversary of the creation of the personal ordinariate 10 members describe their poignant journey to full communion
Abuse victim to tell world’s bishops: ‘You’re in charge: it’s up to you to stop it’
Monday, 6 February 2012
Marie Collins explains to Madeleine Teahan what she will say at an unprecedented gathering of bishops in Rome this week
‘When a child dies that’s really, really rough’
Thursday, 2 February 2012
Madeleine Teahan talks to Fr Michael Shea, a straight-talking American priest caring for the children of Aids sufferers in Thailand
Jon Huntsman was crazy to back evolution
Monday, 30 January 2012
Dennis Sewell says most US voters reject the theory because of claims that it makes God and Christian morality redundant
Catholic Life
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Leaders launch new book
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Beloved priest is buried
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Centre aids city’s homeless
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Comment & Blogs
Today's Catholic must-reads: 08/02/12
By Luke Coppen
Dickens is disappointingly thin - give me AN Wilson anytime
By Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
If a woman is a priest, she can also be a bishop: if she’s not, she can’t. Either way, there is now only one way out for Catholic Anglicans: it’s over the Tiber
By William Oddie
More than any monarch, Queen Elizabeth II understands the spiritual element of her coronation oath
By Francis Phillips
Despite reports of violence, I feel totally safe walking around Mexico
By Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Morning Catholic must-reads: 07/02/12
By Luke Coppen
Is the ‘anthropogenic global warming’ consensus on the point of collapse? If so, this is just the right time for Chris Huhne to leave the Government
By William Oddie
Smacking laws are unworkable products of Left-wing middle class diktat
By Francis Phillips