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One of the minorities in the gunsights of IS has been the Yazidi people. It was the harrowing ...
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The Camino de Santiago pilgrimage in Spain dates from the ninth century, but its booming modern ...
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Sylvia Hassenfeld was the matriarch of the founding family of the Hasbro toy manufacturing ...
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The notion of original sin has engaged the best minds for centuries. But it is no mere ...
View ArticleA meditation on Cardinal Henri de Lubac SJ
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View ArticleFor God so loved the world that he have his only Son
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View ArticleEncountering Muslims as brothers and sisters
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View ArticleHappiest Refugee's touch of Archibald melancholy
The Archibald Prize never fails to draw out fascinating stories. This year, Catholic comedian Anh ...
View ArticleUncharted waters: The implications of Scottish independence
It's 300 years since England and Scotland were formally bound together. In the period prior, ...
View ArticleUnleash the doves of peace! The Pope and United Religions
Last week, Israel's Shimon Peres was received by the Pope and voiced a radical idea: It's time ...
View ArticlePenny Wong praises popes, welfare spotlight on youth
Church reaches out as Riverina mourns murdered family, 25 years of Notre Dame University, ...
View ArticleRichard III burial: Cardinal joins Archbishop of Canterbury
Francis on Mother Teresa, Iraq crisis, new Primate for Ireland, Cardinal Turkson on ethical ...
View ArticleCaritas on need to aid victims not militants
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View ArticleBishops on this sporting nation, Iraq deployment
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View ArticleElaine Stritch: From convent schoolgirl to Broadway diva
She was as tart as a whiskey sour, brassy and bracing as a five-star general. Elaine Stritch was ...
View ArticleThe Luther effect: How Christendom became Europe
Christendom at the end of the Thirty Years War was very different from the one Martin Luther ...
View ArticleIn the midst of suffering, how to keep the faith
Grief is a complicated emotion, as Kerry Weber discovered when her infant niece Marian ...
View ArticleThe last will be first...
Jesus delivers a strong social justice message in Matthew this week, one which is sometimes ...
View ArticlePope Francis reflects on the essence of marriage
Amid the splendour of St Peter's Basilica in Rome, 20 Italian couples were married during last ...
View ArticleGod be praised, sing 'Hallelujah'
Leonard Cohen's anthem Hallelujah hit the headlines again recently when Fr Ray Kelly's tailored ...
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