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Ed West is the features editor of the Catholic Herald and a blogger for the Daily Telegraph. He writes about politics, religion and culture.

Readers offered 50 free tickets for Romano Prodi lecture

Former Italian prime minister Romano Prodi (PA photo)

Former Italian prime minister to give Newman lecture in Oxford next week

Church announces three-year vocations drive

Aim is to ensure every young person has a discernment group to discuss vocations

Catholic Education Service defends marriage petition in schools

Church defends accusations of ‘political indoctrination’

Graphic novel features Adoration, the Sacred Heart of Jesus and God the Father

A page from the graphic novel Please God, Find Me A Husband! by Simone Lia

Catholic illustrator whose work has been displayed in Tate Modern says novel was inspired by prayer

Nuncio celebrates Mass for ordinariate amid new wave of converts

Archbishop Mennini and Mgr Newton, right, at the Mass (Photo: Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk)

Archbishop Mennini celebrated the ordinariate’s first ever Chrism Mass

Former Telegraph columnist is elected provost of Brompton Oratory

Election of traditionalist priest announced today

Pro-abortion campaigners will launch counter-protest to 40 Days for Life

Abortion Rights will protest outside BPAS clinic on the day Bishop Hopes attends vigil

Archbishops pay tribute to Coptic patriarch

The body of Pope Shenouda III is seated on the throne of Mar Morqos, or St Mark, as mourners gather to pay their final respects (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Pope Shenouda passed away on Saturday after 40 years of leading Egypt’s Christians

New safeguarding chairman appointed

Danny Sullivan (Photo: Mazur/catholicchurch.org.uk)

Danny Sullivan replaces Baroness Scotland, who resigned last December

Vatican investigates second John Paul II miracle

The healing is said to have occurred weeks after John Paul II was beatified last May (Photo: CNS)

‘Miraculous’ healing occurred just weeks after beatification last May