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How do we cope when it is hard to hope?
every year we spend most of the season of advent uttering this prayer: “may inherit the great promise in which now we dare to hope.” why is ...
Fr Peter John Cameron
January 3, 2020
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The morality of dressing well
what should you wear at christmas parties? and how should you look presentable without looking vain? i stumbled upon the answer at the inaug...
Harry Mount
Heretic of the week: Paul Tillich
paul tillich (1886-1965) was born to a minister of the prussian state church in what is now poland. he and his family moved to berlin when h...
Charles Coulombe
Prize crossword 0624
cryptic across 1 was jesus called thus after a dodgy healing tale? (3,8) 8 in nevada, east of 17dn, small number meet the pope (6,1) 9 conce...
Alun Evans
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week iv sunday, december 22 : the fourth sunday of advent is 7:10-1; ps 24; rom 1:1-7; mt 1:18-24 monday, decemb...
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How to… Celebrate Christmas Eve
christmas eve is observed differently according to local cultures and traditions but it remains essentially a vigil ahead of the major feast...
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What Christmas has to do with trade deals
" o admirabile commercium : o marvellous exchange! man’s creator has become man, born of a virgin. we have been made sharers in the divinity...
Fr Dominic Allain
Why we kneel during the Creed at Christmas
the collect for the fourth sunday of advent in the novus ordo is also the postcommunion for the feast of the annunciation (march 25) in the ...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Christmas is the most perfect expression of divine gentleness
christmas – mass during the night is 9:1-6; ps 96; titus 2:11-14; lk 2:1-14 the old testament readings for the christmas season are an expre...
Bishop David McGough
Are we ready for the Council of Nairobi?
when bishops meet by john w o’malley harvard university press, 223pp, £20/$24.95 how many bishops does it take to change the course of catho...
Jonathan Wright
The man who paved the way for modern royalty
prince albert by an wilson atlantic, 430pp, £30/$35 publishers love subtitles as a means of catching prospective buyers. so an wilson’s deli...
Allan Massie
Who creates better characters: Marvel or Scorsese?
i recently read a review by dan sanchez of martin scorsese’s the irishman (netflix), “why the marvel movies are better than scorsese's the i...
Deal Hudson
Chesterton's Christmas poems were mediocre – but his prose dazzles
the author most associated with the joy and glow of christmas is obviously charles dickens. apart from the perennially popular christmas car...
Joseph Pearce
Letters: The modern heresy exposed by terror
the modern heresy exposed by terror sir – in his searching article “can jihadists be rehabilitated?” (december 6), tim stanley says: “many o...
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How a mediæval carol was saved from obscurity
a young woman is singing her baby to sleep, crooning words of tenderness: “lullay mine liking, my dear son, my sweeting; lullay my dear hear...
Eleanor Parker
The next English saint could well be a woman
unless pope francis decides to canonise one or more of the 158 english and welsh martyrs beatified by his predecessors, but never raised to ...
Simon Caldwell
The joys of Boxing Day football
i have no idea what we will give our children for christmas, but i know what they have given me over the years – a fascination with sport, w...
Andrew M Brown
Prisoners, exiles and missionaries: the bishops Elizabeth deposed
between 1534 and 1554, there were two people claiming to be bishop of worcester and two to be bishop of salisbury; and between 1559 and 1585...
Jack Scarisbrick
National Gallery director Gabriele Finaldi: 'Catholicism is an image tradition'
gabriele finaldi and i are speaking on the phone so i can’t see the painting he is describing, but i start to feel that i too love titian’s ...
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