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Jerusalem's archives: a tantalising glimpse of a lost world
jerusalem: city of the book by merav mack and benjamin balint yale, 272pp, £20/$30 is there anything new that can be said about jerusalem, t...
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
A fascinating study of Spain that fails to do the Church justice
after the fall by tobias buck weidenfeld and nicolson, 320pp, £20/$24.50 last month, spanish political parties failed, yet again, to come to...
Filipe D'Avillez
How Woodstock ended in a trash-strewn quagmire
woodstock: three days that defined a generation (bbc iplayer/amazon prime/pbs) offers a somewhat unexpected picture of the 1969 rock festiva...
Carl Curtis
The strange decline of Catholic hymns
when pope honorius crowned the fourth lateran council (1215) by proclaiming the new feast of corpus christi – a triduum of joy from the thur...
Anthony Esolen
Letters: The best argument for large families
the best argument for large families sir – it is always encouraging to see colin brazier waxing lyrical and logical in defence of larger fam...
The Catholic Herald
Europe's radiant royals are helping preserve family values
royal history is often entwined with stories of scandals, illicit lovers, royal mistresses and infants born out of wedlock. (charles ii had ...
Mary Kenny
Fr Jubani survived jail and torture. But nothing prepared him for Hollywood
fr simon jubani (pronounced: “you-bonnie”) spent much of his adult life in solitary confinement in an albanian prison cell, where he was reg...
Tom Hoopes
First they came for Pell…
why do so many catholics refuse to believe that the australian cardinal george pell is guilty of child abuse? the cynical answer is “tribal ...
Tim Stanley
Rejoice! St Thérèse of Lisieux is visiting Scotland
it is 25 years since the relics of st thérèse of lisieux began touring the world. england and wales were honoured with their presence in 200...
Bishop Hugh Gilbert
Fr Sosa, the Devil, and the strange new orthodoxy in Rome
the superior general of the jesuits, fr arturo sosa, holds positions that appear incompatible with the catholic faith. he has denied th...
Fr Raymond de Souza
The debate: Was Chesterton an anti-Semite?
yes says stephen daisley of all the writers won to rome, gk chesterton is among the most prized. the late convert was the happiest of c...
The Catholic Herald
Diary: What should the Vatican do now with Castel Gandolfo?
with the summer heat in rome almost unbearable, i’ve been following the saga of pope francis’s rejection of his various summer residences – ...
William Cash
For Australian Catholics, it feels like 1st-century Rome
on august 21, after nearly three months of deliberation, victoria’s court of appeal handed down its decision to dismiss cardinal george pell...
Natasha Marsh
On child benefit, the US lags behind other nations. Could that change?
one of the most striking failures of right-of-centre policymaking in america is its infinite solicitousness toward corporations but indiffer...
Jordan Bloom
The Communal First Saturdays devotion is spreading
a new movement dedicated to fulfilling a request made by the blessed virgin mary at fatima has arrived in britain. the communal first saturd...
Simon Caldwell
Why a stage invasion didn't faze Pope Francis
it was just short of 20 minutes into the weekly general audience on august 21 when 10-year-old clelia manfellotti of naples mounted the stai...
Christopher R. Altieri
World News: From Wheeling to West Papua
wheeling, virginia new bishop of troubled diocese addresses scandals the new bishop of the troubled wheeling-charleston diocese has asked hi...
Staff writers
The week in quotations
that forest lung is vital for our planet pope francis on the amazon fires angelus address you’ll find an operations manager who says, ‘...
Staff writers
Meanwhile: Exorcists' uproar over Fr Sosa comments
✣ in 2017, there was a brief furore when the superior general of the jesuits, fr arturo sosa, opined that “we have formed symbolic...
Staff writers
The best of the web: An indestructible shrine, Christian marriage, McCarrick questions
shrine weathers more than one storm at asia news, cần giờ parish reported uplifting news from vietnam: around 80,000 people went to the cele...
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