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Having a Brit contributing to In All Things means you have to put up with strange spellings endless reports on indecisive Anglicans with their toes in the Tiber and stories about the Royal Family nbsp Except there haven t been any Not for a long time Not since the Queen Mother died and

The UN General Assembly voted yesterday for a moratorium on the death penalty advocated by almost all European and Western nations but voted against by the world s greatest violators of human rights China Iran Sudan Saudi Arabia The only major western nation to be included in this roll of dis

Just after one Synod on the Middle East the results of the previous one are published The post-synodal apostolic exhortation Verbum Domini is the most important Catholic church document on Scripture since the Second Vatican Council s groundbreaking Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation kno

When I was leaving Barcelona for the airport last Monday there was a vigorous discussion on the taxi s radio about whether the nuns who cleaned the altar at last Sunday s consecration of the Sagrada Familia gave the wrong image – or for some an accurate image – about the place of women in the Chur

Judging the success of a papal visit is never a scientific exercise But there are certain criteria was the Pope listened to or ignored Did people turn out Did the media give it good coverage Did words and actions go together Were there moments which made people sit up Some visits however wo

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I ve arrived back in London to find that five Anglican bishops — three serving and two retired — have announced that they will be joining the Catholic Church next year via the ordinariate scheme – and presumably bringing priests and lay people in their tow The Daily Telegraph estimates that aroun

Josepmaria Tarragona is one of the world s leading experts on the architect of the Sagrada Familia Antoni Gaudi and one of the founders of the association which is promoting Gaudi s sainthood I sat down with him over coffee this morning after visiting the Basilica with Tarragona and an Italian fi