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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

Benedict XVI and Pope Francis (Photo: CNS)

It would have been a kind of tragedy if this “strong document” had been privately published

Morning Catholic must-reads: 18/06/13

The Pope speaks to participants in the Rome pastoral convention (AP)

A daily guide to what’s happening in the Catholic Church

I’m a direct descendant of Darwin, but I have discovered the beauty of the Catholic faith

A first edition of Charles Darwin's On the Origins of Species (PA)

The author’s great-great-great grandfather is a New Atheist hero, but she is a Catholic apologist

Art can communicate truths about God that we cannot put into words

Raphael’s Transfiguration

Great Catholic art lifts the heart, mind and soul up to where God is

Whatever the commerical overtones, Father’s Day is worth celebrating

A Father's Day event in texas. More than ever this particular American import is needed (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Karen Warren)

The decline of fatherhood is a shocking tragedy in America and Britain

We need ARCIC III to guide us along the difficult path to unity

The Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury pray together last Friday (CNS)

Ecumenism is part of the very DNA of the Church

Morning Catholic must-reads: 17/06/13

Pope Francis arrives for yesterday's Mass (AP)

A daily guide to what’s happening in the Catholic Church

Cheerful news for a Friday: Catholic-Anglican relations are actually in good shape

The Most Rev Justin Welby (Photo: CNS)

ARCIC may have failed, but on the great moral issues of the day Catholics and Anglicans are on the same side

I was wrong and uncharitable to suggest that the Pope should not be meeting Archbishop Welby. But about our relationship with Anglicanism I got it right

The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev Justin Welby (PA)

Above all, ARCIC is the institutionalisation of the indifferentism which has so weakened faith in the parishes since the Sixties

Pope Francis was all too familiar with Liberation Theology. That’s why he opposed it

Cardinal Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires before he was elected Pope Francis

Many questions still remain about our new Pope but we know his views on Liberation Theology