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World News: from Suárez to South Brisbane
washington, dc pro-lifers condemn sanders’s population comments pro-life activists have condemned senator bernie sanders for remarks which ...
Staff writers
The week in quotations
"the love of the lord has more to do with raising up than knocking down" pope francis in mozambique meeting young people "i prayed and asked...
Staff writers
Meanwhile: BBC to broadcast Lourdes miracle investigation
an alleged lourdes miracle is being investigated – on a bbc tv programme. kazik stepan, from kent, says he was cured of an inoperable spinal...
Staff writers
The best of the web: Interviewing McCarrick, leaving Orthodoxy, canonising Chesterton
mccarrick still doesn’t confess ruth graham secured a world exclusive with her interview with former cardinal theodore mccarrick for slate. ...
Staff writers
The week ahead: Home Mission, Wall Street, Cardinal Sarah's new book
sunday september 15 is home mission sunday in england and wales. it’s a day to pray for the church’s mission, and there’s a second collectio...
Staff writers
Overlooked: Vatican 'faces severe financial crisis'
what happened? the vatican is facing a financial crisis thanks to “persistent inefficiencies and hits to investment income”, according to th...
Staff writers
The big story: Debate heats up ahead of Amazon synod
what happened? divisions are growing over next month’s amazon synod, with one cardinal warning of “a situation never before seen in the chur...
Staff writers
Africa is a rising force, but Rome has yet to catch up
as pope francis celebrated mass on sunday he looked out on a congregation of up to a million people. many of them had slept overnight on the...
The Catholic Herald
September 13, 2019
The Catholic Herald
The book about love and loss that everyone should read
jesus says that if we follow him the cross will find us. that message is chronically misunderstood. maybe we would understand it better if j...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
How I wrote a symphony about the Holy Spirit
i was an undergraduate in edinburgh way back in the late 1970s. among the reasons i went there was the opportunity to study composition with...
Sir James MacMillan
Heretic of the week: Miguel de Molinos
miguel de molinos (1628-1696) was a spanish priest renowned as the founder of the quietist heresy. trained at a jesuit school and ordained i...
Charles Coulombe
Prize crossword 0609
cryptic across 5 chap in desert mob checked for jerusalem court (9) 8 authorized version, in jude, it’s odd in there’s a sense that it’s bee...
Alun Evans
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week iii sunday, september 8 : 23rd sunday in ordinary time wis 9:13-18b; ps 90; phmn 9-10, 12-17; lk 14:25-33 m...
The Catholic Herald
How to… Observe Ember Days
the ember days are four sets of three seasonal days of prayer, fasting and abstinence. they fall equidistant in the cycle of the year and ea...
The Catholic Herald
The Amazon fires are a good metaphor for today's Church
the media is full of apocalyptic news of fires in the “lungs” of the world and discussion of the bleak future we face if this unprecedented ...
Fr Dominic Allain
What it means to be God's adopted children
the collect for the 23rd ordinary sunday was not in any pre-conciliar edition of the roman missal, but it was in the 8th-century gelasian sa...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Inside Demmin: the town that could not go on living
promise me you’ll shoot yourself by florian huber allen lane, 304pp, £20/$24 this is an inauspicious title for a thought-provoking book. its...
Charlie Hegarty
The shadowy eggheads who transformed warfare
under every leaf by william beaver biteback, 340pp, £9.99/$14.95 most students of history will be familiar with the enormous extension of eu...
Patrick West
Frederick II clashed with the Pope, but he was no secularist
the two powers by brett edward whalen university of pennsylvania press, 328pp, £70/$80 pope gregory ix (1227-1241) may not be among the most...
James Baresel
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