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Quotes of the week
"we have fallen into the culture of adjectives and adverbs, and we have forgotten the strength of nouns" pope francis speech to employees of...
Staff writers
Meanwhile: Saturnos and Kanye
what sort of headgear does a priest need? anything but a saturno, according to pope francis. in an exchange with jesuits in madagascar last ...
Staff writers
The week ahead: The rosary and Paul Thigpen
october is the month of the rosary, and there will be many events at churches and elsewhere. in london on saturday october 12, there will be...
Staff writers
Overlooked: Sex education for six-year-olds criticised
what happened? british children aged six are being taught about “self-stimulation” of “private parts”, the mail on sunday has revealed. the ...
Staff writers
The big story: Amazon synod prompts debate – and prayer
what happened? catholics have taken part in prayer vigils ahead of the controversial amazon synod, asking for the church to be protected fro...
Staff writers
We desperately need a Month of Mission
why has pope francis declared october an extraordinary month of mission? one reason is that he wanted to mark the 100th anniversary of an ap...
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Jesus Christ: the person and the mystery
we quite naturally tend to think of the word “christ” as jesus’s second name. we think of the name “jesus christ” in the same way that we th...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
A meeting with my 'cousin', Rosanne Cash
the travel group thomas cook, which went into compulsory liquidation this week, may have invented mass tourism, but it failed to embrace tec...
William Cash
Heretic of the week: Joseph Murphy
one of the many joys of my youth was perusing the saturday religion section of the los angeles times. among other things in the babbling bro...
Charles Coulombe
Prize crossword 0612
cryptic across 6 kinky hermaphrodites have no deviant harm, admitted 18d’s wicked accuser (10) 8 without hesitation, as they say, meet at ph...
Alun Evans
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week ii sunday, september 29 : 26th sunday in ordinary time am 6:1a, 4-7; ps 146; 1 tm 6:11-16; lk 16:19-31 mond...
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How to … Observe the Extraordinary Month of Mission
pope francis has dedicated october as an “extraordinary mission month”, with the theme “baptised and sent: the church of christ on a mission...
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A 'post-human priesthood'? What a counsel of despair
the theologian josef pieper says that one of the most common errors afflicting christians is to treat god as though he were “a something” ra...
Fr Dominic Allain
Angels live in perfect harmony with God. But being human has its advantages too
in the novus ordo calendar the 26th ordinary sunday supplants the feast of the archangels michael, gabriel and raphael. in the traditio...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Practical concern for the poor is at the heart of the Mosaic Law
the 26th sunday of the year amos 6:1 & 4-7; 1 tim 6:11-16; lk 16:19-31 (year c) throughout the gospels, and especially in luke’s gospel,...
Bishop David McGough
'I felt like weeping for the sheer beauty': the philosophers who found Catholicism
here is an invaluable collection of 10 essays, all written by american academic philosophers, which demonstrates, particularly to those who ...
Francis Phillips
The Galileo legend is of a spiteful, outdated Church. The reality is more complex
on trial for reason by maurice a finocchiaro oup, 289pp, £25/$32.95 june 22, 1633, was not the happiest of days for galileo galilei, though ...
Jonathan Wright
Catholics have new allies against the sexual revolution. That's a mixed blessing
the new politics of sex by stephen baskerville angelico, 408pp, £18/$25 it turns out religious traditionalists aren’t the only ones finding ...
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