Ed West catches up with Philip Johnson, the US seminarian diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour
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Pope ‘may still visit Ireland next year’ despite diplomatic tensions
Delegate of Eucharistic Congress says there are contingency plans in case Benedict XVI does visit
Holy See asks Iran to spare life of Christian pastor
Spokesman for Bishops of England and Wales says Holy See officials are working through ‘diplomatic channels’
MPs reject Dorries plan to restrict abortion counselling
Amendment that would prevent abortion providers offering counselling is defeated by a majority of 250
British Catholics give £3m to Africa
Catholics in England, Wales and Scotland have donated more than £3 million for the east Africa famine
Bishop Michael Evans loses fight against cancer
Bishop Evans has died of prostate cancer at the age of 59
Archbishop Stack is installed in Cardiff
In his homily Archbishop Stack calls for Catholics to challenge ‘the structures of injustice’ in society
Rosminian order admits ‘inadequate’ response to abuse
Fr David Myers, head of the Rosminians in Britain, issues apology for sexual and physical abuse by priests in the 1960s
‘Sometimes God works in funny ways’
Ed West talks to a Catholic who prayed the rosary 35,000 times while running across America, dodging wild animals on the way
There is no competition between faith and reason, says cardinal
Faith and reason are in harmony and are not in competition, Cardinal Peter Turkson has said at a lecture in Oxford








Tory party leaders have forgotten what a conservative outlook is all about
By Ed West