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Are you a beleaguered clique or a creative minority?

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Are you a beleaguered clique or a creative minority?

Catholics are a minority in the UK today. But what do the Scriptures say about the vocation of creative minorities and the responsibility they have to build God’s Kingdom? A homily by Fr Stephen Wang.

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Who is Jesus? (And, by the way, how to vote in the EU Referendum…)

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Who is Jesus? (And, by the way, how to vote in the EU Referendum…)

A homily by Fr Stephen Wang, about the challenge of proclaiming Jesus Christ, and the political implications of St Paul’s theology of baptismal unity.

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Why do you go to work in the morning?

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Why do you go to work in the morning?

As Christians we are called to loving service, and as adults we spend a third of our waking lives at work. So how do we turn our work into service? One of the deepest modern […]

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Pope Francis appoints Fr Paul Mason as new Auxiliary Bishop to Southwark Diocese

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Pope Francis appoints Fr Paul Mason as new Auxiliary Bishop to Southwark Diocese

Pope Francis has appointed Father Paul Mason as the new Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark. Fr Mason, a priest of the Archdiocese of Southwark, has been the Episcopal Vicar for Kent which comprises the Deaneries of Canterbury, […]

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The Ethics of Pregnancy, Abortion and Childbirth

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The Ethics of Pregnancy, Abortion and Childbirth

We are delighted to announce the publication by Routledge of The Ethics of Pregnancy, Abortion and Childbirth: Exploring Moral Choices in Childbearing by Dr Helen Watt, the Anscombe Centre’s Senior Research Fellow. See below for a brief description […]

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Easter Retreat for Young Adults at Worth Abbey

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Easter Retreat for Young Adults at Worth Abbey

CELEBRATING THE PASSION & RESURRECTION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST Holy Thursday 24th March – Easter Sunday 27th March 2016 Monastic Liturgy and Prayer – Talks by the monks and The Wellspring For more info […]

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A retreat for young people in central London, 29 Dec to 1 Jan

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A retreat for young people in central London, 29 Dec to 1 Jan

This year’s Youth 2000 retreat takes place from December 29 to January 1 at Maria Fidelis Lower School, North Gower Street, Euston, London NW1 2HR. This testimony comes from Emma Sisk: This year I brought in […]

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How to enter the reality of suffering without losing faith in God

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How to enter the reality of suffering without losing faith in God

Have you ever been in a situation where, to everyone outside, it looked like everything had fallen to pieces? A failed plan, a project or job fallen through, a serious illness, a financial loss, some […]

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Catholics and Our Common Home: Caring for the Planet We Share

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Catholics and Our Common Home: Caring for the Planet We Share

At last we are in fashion! Back in 1995 I wrote a CTS pamphlet entitled, Must Catholics be Green? It had seemed obvious to me for a long time that any sane person would want […]

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Resisting assisted suicide

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Resisting assisted suicide

Tomorrow the UK Parliament debates  a Bill tabled by the MP Robert Marris to legalise assisted suicide. The following is an excerpt from the new edition of a book by UK and US Catholic Voices coordinators Austen Ivereigh and […]

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Eight Reasons not to legalize Physician Assisted Suicide

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Eight Reasons not to legalize Physician Assisted Suicide

From the Anscombe Bioethics Centre. 1. Physician Assisted Suicide (PAS) would not address the urgent needs of the dying One attraction of PAS is that it is thought to address the suffering of the dying.  […]

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Our response to the refugee crisis will be judged by history

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Our response to the refugee crisis will be judged by history

[Post by Brenden Alejandro Thompson] In the Twitterstorm provoked by the harrowing image of a three-year-old Syrian boy dead on a Turkish beach, the hashtags #IAmAnImmigrant and #humanitywashedashore have been trending, together with an image of St […]

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Francis’s bold message to abortion survivors: come and be freed

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Francis’s bold message to abortion survivors: come and be freed

Pope Francis yesterday sent media and commentators into a tailspin after calling for all priests to be granted the faculty to absolve the sin of abortion during the Year of Mercy (see Crux). The bold gesture, […]

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Assessing the evidence on assisted suicide

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Assessing the evidence on assisted suicide

The debate over assisted suicide frequently generates more heat than light, and arguments are often based on anecdotes or appeal to emotion rather than evidence.  When people do appeal to evidence, they often do so […]

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Francis declares 1 September ‘World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation’

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Francis declares 1 September ‘World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation’

Pope Francis has agreed with a request from the Orthodox for Catholics to join them in praying for creation on 1 September. The suggestion was made by Metropolitan John of Pergamon, who was part of […]

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Living simply: the contemporary relevance of the virtue of temperance

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Living simply: the contemporary relevance of the virtue of temperance

Laudato Si’ challenges us to live a simpler lifestyle. In this, Pope Francis follows the teaching of his two predecessors. St John Paul II wrote: Simplicity, moderation and discipline, as well as a spirit of […]

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Is there a difference between “suicide” and “assisted dying”?

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Is there a difference between “suicide” and “assisted dying”?

The Assisted Dying Bill that comes before the House of Commons would “enable competent adults who are terminally ill to choose to be provided with medically supervised assistance to end their own life.” This is […]

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Proclaim ’15: Pope Francis praises commitment to evangelisation at once in a generation Birmingham conference

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Proclaim ’15: Pope Francis praises commitment to evangelisation at once in a generation Birmingham conference

Pope Francis sent a special message to around 900 attendees, representing Catholic parishes from across England and Wales, at a ‘once in a generation’ national Catholic evangelisation conference in Birmingham at the weekend. The message […]

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An uncertain future for Heythrop College

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An uncertain future for Heythrop College

This news comes from the Heythrop website: Heythrop’s Governing Body met yesterday to discuss the future of the College. This meeting was the culmination of detailed work over the past three years, as Governors, working […]

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Laudato Si’: a summary of Pope Francis’s sweeping eco-encyclical

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Laudato Si’: a summary of Pope Francis’s sweeping eco-encyclical

Pope Francis’s encyclical Praised Be You: On the Care of Our Common Home is available in full here. A brief, ’10 things you need to know’ video by Fr James Martin is here. Humanum has produced a […]

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