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The week ahead: Retreat, Pope in Africa, Day with Mary
fr jacques philippe comes to london next week, to give a weekend retreat at holy apostles church, pimlico. fr philippe, whose books have sol...
Staff writers
The big story: Cardinal Pell's appeal fails
what happened cardinal george pell will attempt to make a final appeal against his conviction for child abuse, after the victoria supreme co...
Staff writers
The Vatican is making headway in Hanoi. Will Beijing be next?
on august 15, the solemnity of the assumption, 80,000 people gathered at the shrine of our lady of la vang in vietnam. you might have expect...
The Catholic Herald
Grace and mercy are never given out cheaply
imagine this: a man entirely careless of all moral and spiritual affairs lives his life in utter selfishness, with pleasure his only pursuit...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
I dreaded our camping holiday. How wrong I was
"we don’t do camping,” said a pompous acquaintance when i explained that our summer holiday this year was going to be a fortnight in a tent....
Andrew M Brown
Heretic of the week: Charles Webster Leadbeater
cw leadbeater (1854-1934) was a most remarkable – not to say bizarre – man. of middle-class background, he was ordained an anglican clergyma...
Charles Coulombe
Prize crossword 0607
cryptic across 7 sanctimonious and dead, this roman procurator (6) 8 one that crashed into the sea is coming from iran initially – american ...
Alun Evans
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week i sunday, august 25 : 21st sunday in ordinary time is 66:18-21; ps 117; heb 12:5-7, 11-13; lk 13:22-30 mond...
The Catholic Herald
How to … practise mortification
today’s feast of st rose of lima calls to mind a woman who practised self-mortification in pursuit of spiritual perfection; one who lived an...
The Catholic Herald
God is in the details – especially when we don't like them
our collect for the 21st sunday of ordinary time asks god to grant that his will, not this world’s snares, be the basis of our lives, and in...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
God can't be known through casual acquaintance
the 21st sunday of the year is 66:18-21; heb 12:5-7 & 11-13; lk 13:22-30 (year c) the book of isaiah concludes with a vision of unsurpas...
Bishop David McGough
Don't try to pigeonhole Cardinal Müller
i will not describe cardinal gerhard müller, formerly prefect of the congregation for the doctrine of the faith, as a “conservative” cardina...
Francis Phillips
Christina Rossetti brought together theology and ecology
christina rossetti by emma mason oup, 240pp, £30/$39.95 devotional victorian poets understood the particularities of nature as manifestation...
Rebekah Lamb
The 500-year-old book that overwhelms its owners
the lost gutenberg by margaret davis atlantic, 304pp, £16.99/$27 what has been nicknamed “the commode”, “the whale” and “#45”? those of you ...
Matt Thorne
Finzi's choral works: from sorrow to the sublime
melancholy lingers about much of gerald finzi’s oeuvre. the sadness of his early life contributed, as did his later ill health. finzi’s musi...
Francis O’Gorman
Finzi: A composer who sensed a deeper purpose beyond suffering
the composer gerald finzi (1901-56) was shy, modest and sensitive. descended on his father’s side from italian jews, the finzis were otherwi...
Peter Davison
Letters: Do we treat our churches with the respect they deserve?
we need to get our own house in order sir – matthew schmitz (cover story, august 9) asks how it is that when our churches are desecrated, th...
The Catholic Herald
How to go on a 'digital retreat'
asceticism has always been a key component of catholic spirituality. following the example of its founder, jesus christ, catholicism has alw...
The Catholic Herald
Funeral eulogies? Save it for the wake
a priest in county cork has caused ripples by deploring the nature of some of the gifts brought to the altar during a funeral mass. these, s...
Mary Kenny
The anti-clerical poet who inspired conversions to Catholicism
how should one evaluate the relationship of a poet with the church, when his verse is either obscure or plainly hostile to organised religio...
Benjamin Ivry
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