The cardinal who holds his Church together
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‘Without warning I was dropped into a world of genuine faith’
Tuesday, 18 June 2013
A nun describes her dramatic journey from atheism to religious life
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‘The day I felt as if God was smiling down on me’
Thursday, 6 June 2013
Human rights activist Benedict Rogers explains how he realised that his true home was in the Catholic Church
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‘This is how we are going to end abortion’
Thursday, 6 June 2013
Phyllis Bowman died a year ago but her vision of a mass movement safeguarding life should continue to inspire us
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‘I won’t be recommending Vatican III’: Cardinal Pell on his new role advising Pope Francis
Friday, 31 May 2013
The Australian cardinal says he will call for an overhaul of Vatican communications
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Our new Holy Father does not lack steel
Tuesday, 28 May 2013Three new books about Pope Francis show that the new Pontiff believes we are engaged in a daily battle with the Devil
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The atheist orthodoxy that drove me to faith
Thursday, 23 May 2013
Megan Hodder was a young, avid reader of the New Atheists, but her life changed when she read the work of their Catholic foes
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‘There’s hunger for mercy in the world’
Thursday, 16 May 2013
Cardinal Seán O’Malley talks to Mary O’Regan about Irish abortion legislation, Pope Francis and his new role as a ‘super cardinal’
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Pope Francis, as I hoped, will complete Pope Benedict’s unfinished encyclical: it will be a striking illustration of the hermeneutic of continuity
By William Oddie