From the Tablet s blog by Catherine Pepinster editor in chief When the staff of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity were told on Tuesday that Cardinal Walter Kasper ndash their boss of 10 years who retired just a few weeks ago ndash would not be joining the papal visit to Br

TWICKENHAM Pope Benedict s UK campaign against secularism has continued this morning at a Catholic university college in south-west London where he has given three addresses which amplified the clear theme of this visit -- that pluralism depends on opening up to faith The first speech this morni

This week we have a video report on the short-term and long-term efforts to restore church artifacts and salvage church records in the Archdiocese of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina Archivists from around the country pitched in to save and catalogue items Watch the video below to learn more

Pope Sixtus V called it ldquo contrary to Christian charity rdquo The third Lateran Council proclaimed it ldquo a heresy rdquo worthy of excommunication Both Old and New Testaments denounced it as did Plato Aristotle Moses the Buddha and Muhammad The offensive practice Usury defined a

The Pope has continued with the argument he wants to have with British secularism at a joyous outdoor Mass attended by 70 000 in Bellahouston Park in Glasgow Scotland -- reprising a phrase which has come to define his pontificate nbsp The evangelization of culture is all the more important in our

British humanists have reacted furiously to Pope Benedict lumping together atheism and Nazism in his speech at Edinburgh As we reflect on the sobering lessons of the atheist extremism of the 20th century let us never forget how the exclusion of God religion and virtue from public life leads ul