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BREAKING NEWS: The Tomb is empty! Christ is Risen!
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Pope Francis upholds Catholic ban on contraception, and calls for a counter-sexual revolution. By @SPJCaldwell .
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Pope Francis celebrates Palm Sunday in nearly empty St Peter’s Basilica
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This is a tragedy for Christian Europe. May Our Lord and His Blessed Mother, Notre Dame, console the Catholics of France and all who love this precious building. #NotreDame
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Cardinal Sarah: 'Watering down' Church teaching won't attract young people
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Bishop Paprocki bars pro-abortion politicians from Holy Communion
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Today is the feast of St Maximilian Kolbe. Imprisoned in Auschwitz, he volunteered to be killed in place of a stranger
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CONFIRMED: John Henry Newman will be canonised on October 13 this year
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Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth: 'Britain has now crossed a line: things will not be the same again. May God help us.' .
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BREAKING: @Pontifex to visit Iraq in March 2021. From the noon bulletin from the Press Office: "Pope Francis, accepting the invitation of the Republic of Iraq and of the local Catholic.Church, will make an Apostolic Journey to the aforementioned Country on 5-8 March 2021.".
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Argentina’s new VP attends Latin Mass, sympathises with SSPX and opposes abortion.
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EXCLUSIVE: Diocese bans celebration of ‘Pride month’ in Catholic schools.
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Cardinal Burke: Limiting Muslim immigration is patriotic
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Martin Lee’s arrest confirms that Beijing has crossed the line into tyranny by David Alton and Luke de Pulford.
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Notre-Dame Cathedral will celebrate its first Mass after April's devastating fire on June 15
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Arrested Catholic lawyer warns of Chinese repression in Hong Kong
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Cardinal Sarah denounces ‘atheistic’ Western bishops who prefer the world to the cross
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Cardinal Arinze: If Protestants want to receive Communion, they should become Catholic
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'Beijing has crossed the line into tyranny': David Alton & Luke de Pulford on the arrest of Catholic democracy activist Martin Lee
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The International Association of Exorcists has told the Superior General of the Jesuits that the devil is a real, personal being, and to say otherwise goes against Church teaching
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In a rare intervention, His Eminence Robert Cardinal Sarah has said that “the crisis of the Church has entered a new phase: the crisis of the Magisterium”. @dianemontagna .
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Explainer: Why Cardinal Zen is criticising the WHO
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Since 2010, one country has seen marriage rates increase by a whopping 43 per cent with their divorce rate dropping by 22.5 per cent
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The @CatholicHerald respectfully asks the Bishops of England and Wales to speak out immediately and with great force against the abominable forced abortion ordered by a court in London. Their relative silence has dismayed our readers in both the UK and US.
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A Filipino archbishop has asked Catholics not to clap during Mass
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Cardinal Zen challenges Cardinal Re to show claimed China documents from Vatican archive
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Cardinal Sarah: Nigerians killed by terrorists are ‘martyrs’
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Cardinal Zen: 'Parolin manipulates the Pope,' and Vatican's China policy is 'immoral'
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Westminster Cathedral forced to turn people away due to unprecedented numbers attending Easter Triduum.
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The massacre the media won't tell you about – hundreds of Christians murdered by Islamists in Nigeria
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Why Lithuania’s history disturbs Chinese communists
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Today is the traditional feast of the Archangel Raphael
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Rupnik artwork must come down, says top US cardinal as he breaks ranks with Vatican
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Bishop Barron slams ‘gross mockery' of Last Supper and Christian Faith during Olympic Games opening ceremony @BishopBarron .
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The new Tolkien biopic ignores the author's devout Christian faith. There is no indication that he ever even entered a Catholic church, says Fr Michael Ward
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Spanish flags to fly at half-mast to mark death of Christ
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Historian Tom Holland recalls inexplicable healing from cancer after praying to the Blessed Virgin Mary in ancient London church ✍️Tom Colsy @holland_tom
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Anti-Christian persecution is at 'near genocide levels', says UK govt report. Foreign Secretary blames 'political correctness' for failure to take action
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Australian priests ‘willing to go to jail’ rather than break seal of confessional
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Britain no longer a Christian country, says Bishop of Portsmouth following vote by MPs to legalise assisted suicide.
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Parishioners protested him for removing their unauthorized changes to the Mass. Thank God for priests as courageous as Fr George Kuforiji, says @ccpecknold
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If you come across a Corpus Christi procession by accident, then kneel as the Eucharist passes by. This kind of public witness to the Real Presence has led many non-Catholics into the Church.
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Cardinal Sarah: every nation has a right to distinguish between refugees and economic migrants
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Archbishop Chaput: A Christian should never separate their faith from their politics
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Bad luck if you wanted a rooftop swimming pool or a monument to Mother Gaia. France's Senate says Notre-Dame must be rebuilt just as it was before the fire
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Notre-Dame Cathedral to broadcast crown of thorns veneration on Good Friday
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Dramatic photo shows bishop blessing priest in Ebola quarantine
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Cardinal Woelki: All those who push for changes (liberalizing celibacy, reconsidering homosexuality, ordaining women, accepting sex outside of marriage) have not answered one question: Why are Protestant Christians not flourishing?
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Cardinal Sarah warns that an apostasy is underway in many parts of the world, and in some parts of the Church
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Archbishop Chaput tells synod: ‘LGBTQ’ should not be used in Church documents
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‘The hardest thing about the last 20 years as a priest has been to see the lack of reverence for the Blessed Sacrament.’. - Fr Dominic Allain on the terrifying collapse of faith in the West
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Pope says marriage can only be between a man and a woman and ‘we cannot change it’
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The Vatican condemns gender ideology as a 'cultural and ideological revolution driven by relativism'
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Archbishop Chaput: Abortion is a perverse 'sacrament' for Democratic Party leaders
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Judges have overturned the decision to force a disabled woman to have an abortion, according to reports
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Twenty-nine Nigerian Christians slaughtered in three-day pogrom
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EXCLUSIVE: Bishop Athanasius Schneider says sacking of U.S. Bishop Joseph Strickland signals ‘internal persecution of faithful Catholics by the Pope’ ✍️@SPJCaldwell
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Cardinal Arinze: we cannot share Communion with non-Catholics like beer or cake
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Blessed John Henry Newman will be canonised as Pope Francis signs decree approving second miracle. More follows
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We must move away from Communion in the hand, and from standing to kneeling - And phase out excessive employment of lay ministers of Communion, writes @fatherz
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Bishop Brennan named as successor to disgraced Bishop Bransfield
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Two US states vote to deny public abortion funding
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Archbishop Chaput: "Due to the confusion caused by his statements and activities . I find it necessary to emphasize that Father Martin does not speak with authority on behalf of the Church, and to caution the faithful about some of his claims.”
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Priests must defend the Seal of the Confessional ‘even to the point of shedding blood’, the Vatican says in a strongly worded new document
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Pope Francis: if you are in a state of mortal sin, you cannot receive Communion
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Bishop Olmsted: The sexual revolution has caused 'a plague of misery on a scale never known before'
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For the first time in 485 years, the Traditional Latin Mass will be offered in the cathedral where St John Fisher lived - and on the saint's feast day
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Pope Francis prays for Alfie Evans in Sunday Regina Coeli address
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Kansas archdiocese defends denying school place to child of same-sex couple: 'Our schools exist to pass on the Catholic faith'
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New Polish PM: My dream is to re-Christianise the EU
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Bishop Tobin: Catholics should not support gay pride events
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Christians face ethnic cleansing in northern Nigeria. Why is no one speaking up for them? by @DouglasKMurray
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‘May God protect them all’: Bishop Patrick McKinney of Nottingham says British move to legalise suicide ushers in ‘a devastating law’ for the sick and vulnerable. ✍️ Charles Collins @CharlesinRome:.
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Archbishop prohibits priests from ‘performing any form of blessing’ of same-sex couples in response to new Vatican declaration. ✍️Diane Montagna @dianemontagna:.
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Catholics in a small West African country are being slaughered and hardly anyone is talking about it
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Why do so few US Catholics believe in the Real Presence? They've learnt from a generation of pastors who stripped the altars and who treated the Most Holy Eucharist as something to be passed out like a leaflet rather than received in awe, says @ccpecknold
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Cardinal Sarah: The West is an advanced state of spiritual collapse and can only be saved by rediscovering Christ
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Aborting the disabled is an ‘expression of an inhuman eugenics mentality’, says Pope Francis
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June is the month of the Sacred Heart. Here's the remarkable power of this traditional devotion
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Kidnapped Indian priest Fr Tom Uzhunnalil freed after 18 months
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Cardinal Sarah: ‘Packaged’ Eucharist proposal is ‘madness’
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Today is the first day of Sacred Heart month. Here’s why the traditional devotion is so important
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English bishop: you cannot be Catholic and support abortion
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Cardinal Pell has won his appeal and is free to leave prison
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Happy St Joseph's Day! And remember, as it's a Solemnity you can take a day off Lent!
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Venice illuminated in red for Asia Bibi and all persecuted Christians
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Google celebrates priest who proposed Big Bang theory
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Catholics who defend socialism need to explain how it fits with Church teaching on private property, says @ccpecknold
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