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Sisters Marizele Cassiano and Marisa de Paula, two Brazilian nuns from the Copiosa Redenção congregation, have gone viral after an impromptu beatboxing session. The nuns appeared on the Catholic TV channel Pai Eterno, hosted by the recently ordained Deacon Giovane Bastos of the Redemptorist order. When asked about their vocation, Sister Marizele began to sing

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Brazilian nuns go viral after beatboxing on Catholic TV ↗

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The election of Pope Leo XIV came at the end of my first and last conclave. Having been made a cardinal by Pope Francis in 2014, I had never before been part of the process – and as I turn 80 in a few months’ time, please God I shall not be again. I was

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Cardinal Vincent Nichols on electing Pope Leo XIV ↗

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Concerned Catholic: After several months of severe illness, I have been diagnosed with coeliac disease. My consultant has told me to avoid absolutely all gluten in future. However, I have also read that the Catholic Church does not allow the use of gluten-free hosts for Holy Communion. Does this mean I can never receive the Eucharist

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Can Holy Communion be gluten-free? One of the Herald’s chaplains answers your questions ↗

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ROME – For the outside world, it is perhaps Pope Leo XIV’s pleas for ceasefires in Gaza and Ukraine that have drawn the most attention since his election just over three weeks ago. For Catholic insiders, a range of papal actions have sparked reaction – from his sartorial choices to the use of sung Latin

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Pope Leo XIV faces test of Vatican justice in Becciu meeting fallout ↗

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A British couple aged 72 have been awarded a parental order for a child born through a commercial surrogacy arrangement in California, prompting sharp criticism from campaigners who say the ruling exposes serious ethical and legal flaws in the UK’s approach to international surrogacy. The child, now 14 months old, was born in 2024 to

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Court grants surrogacy order to 72-year-olds ↗

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What we believe about the existence of good and evil – but perhaps especially evil – shapes the map of the world we hold in our heads. Conversation about good and evil becomes more difficult if – as our culture does – we replace the language of the spirit with that of therapy or the

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Douglas Murray, Jordan Peterson and the theology of death cults ↗

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Few people have made a greater impact on Catholic education in the United Kingdom than Jane Heffernan. With almost 25 years of experience in senior leadership positions at Catholic schools, she has served as either headteacher or executive headteacher in all the Catholic secondary schools across the London boroughs of Hackney and Islington, and she

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INTERVIEW: Jane Heffernan, the woman who saved Catholic schools in East London ↗

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Few people have made a greater impact on Catholic education in the United Kingdom than Jane Heffernan. With almost 25 years of experience in senior leadership positions at Catholic schools, she has served as either headteacher or executive headteacher in all the Catholic secondary schools across the London boroughs of Hackney and Islington, and she

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INTERVIEW: Jane Herrernan, the woman who saved Catholic schools in East London ↗

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