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This week George Weigel says it’s time to finish off what Vatican II started

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Pope Francis might not launch a revolution after all, says Fr Raymond de Souza

Jack Carrigan finds out what it takes to be a saint like John Paul

Will Gore reviews a documentary about the life and career of legendary Welsh boxer, Joe Calzaghe

Bishop David McGough says Advent might become for us a season of inner attentiveness

Pastor Iuventus thinks staging Nativity plays in the first week of Advent is absurd

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Richard Ingrams thinks Brian Sewell was right: men and women are not the same

Bishops must keep out of Ireland’s abortion battle, warns Melanie McDonagh

Mark Greaves meets the young priest caring for Manila’s ‘totally rejected’ street children

Stuart Reid will not be giving up Coke Zero or chewing gum

Tim Stanley names the best series the BBC has ever made

Jonathan Ruffer hears God calling him to donate millions

No priest ever burnt books by Edna O’Brien, says Mary Kenny

William Cash says some of Britain’s loveliest private chapels are being demolished

Fr Ronald Rolheiser on why spiritual giants need a strong ego

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