Sephardi Jewish exhibition in Spanish Catholic museum a hit
More than 6000 people have visited an exhibition about Sephardi Jews that was featured in a ...
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The prevalence of boredom today highlights an irony, namely, that boredom is increasing among us ...
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Italian Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri has been a part of some of Pope Francis' key preparatory ...
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While the large pilgrimage destinations are thriving it is also encouraging that lesser-known ...
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Time will tell whether Pope Francis' much-vaunted reform of the Vatican flourishes or wilts. But ...
View ArticleIn praise of the sparky, kindly, liberal nuns of my youth
I sometimes get into quite heated arguments about nuns with fellow 1960s women who went to bad ...
View ArticleSome candid reflections from Bruce The R 'n Roll Boss
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View ArticleIt's either Catholicism or atheism, says professor
A Harvard law professor who experienced a conversion to Catholicism has suggested there is no ...
View ArticleIn times of grief, a few suggestions for loved ones
"Last month, a 27-year-old friend of mine named John died. Like other cataclysmic events, there ...
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Luke 20:27-38 Some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, came forward and put ...
View ArticleIn praise of those whose interior light shines brightly
"The liturgical year is a roll call of people who gave their lives to follow Jesus. The Church ...
View ArticleSr Mary Prema Pierick, successor to Saint Teresa
Sr Mary Prema Pierick is the Superior General of the Missionary Sisters Charity, the religious ...
View ArticleHow the bells of St Agatha’s led Lisa back to the faith
Lisa Carter was drifting from the Church for a long time, until the bells of St Agatha’s, ...
View ArticlePhilippines Church struggles to respond to Duterte crisis
On any list of the most consequential Catholic nations, the Philippines would easily finish in ...
View ArticleA close encounter: Satan and the Vatican's exorcist
May 1 was Fr Gabriele Amorth’s 91st birthday. After saying morning prayers, he spent six hours ...
View ArticleAffectionate portrait of the Church, despite crises
For all the renegades of Catholicism, Tom Keneally's latest novel - his third to centre around ...
View ArticleFilipino nun served in India for half a lifetime
Holy Spirit Sister Bernadisa Inocencia Pacis, a Filipino nun who spent 55 years educating and ...
View Article75 years young: Seminary is ‘God’s work of art’
As the bell tolled three times, priests, deacons, and seminarians gathered outside the Holy ...
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