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How to… Survive soporific sermons
the gospel carries tremendous power when preached with honesty and conviction. it can therefore be disappointing when a priest preaches...
The Catholic Herald
This summer, don't take a holiday from God
every summer i put a short announcement in my parish newsletter with the aim of encouraging parishioners to make the effort to find a church...
Fr Matthew Pittam
Before God, we are hope-filled beggars
the collect for the 18th ordinary sunday was not in any previous edition of the missale romanum. it is a grammatically simplified versi...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
The futility of measuring our lives by what we own
the 18th sunday of the year eccl 1:2 & 2:21-23; col 3:11-5 & 9-11; lk 12:13-21 (year c) "make us know the shortness of our...
Bishop David McGough
We're doomed, so let's have a nice cup of tea
the selfish ape by nicholas p money reaktion books, 152pp, £14.99/$20 nicholas money’s new book, subtitled human nature and our path to exti...
Matt Thorne
The royal bully who retired to a monastery
emperor: a new life of charles v by geoffrey parker yale, 760pp, £25/$35 early 16th-century demographics can lead one to wonder how protesta...
James Baresel
A four-hour masterpiece that you simply have to see
the opening of burning bush has the look of a sixties teen movie, with grinning kids gyrating to rock ’n’ roll – almost beach party without ...
Carl Curtis
Mahler's anguished but enduring faith
in 1860, gustav mahler was born into a german-speaking jewish family in the bohemian village of kaliště, then part of the austrian empire. w...
Peter Davison
Letters & emails
catholics need a dash of confidence sir – hearing boris johnson expounding in the house of commons his belief in the greatness of the u...
The Catholic Herald
Men's brains aren't wired to notice housework
it’s considered now to be a major cause of inequality between men and women, and a prime factor in the “gender imbalance” of society. that i...
Mary Kenny
Neo-Victorians like Rees-Mogg know what Britain is lacking
i’m very much enjoying our neo-victorian government. i’ve been pushing boris for pm for over a year: i said on bbc question time that theres...
Tim Stanley
What I wish I'd known about bereavement
it may seem strange to write a column about the experience of bereavement, but i learnt so much from it that i think it may be helpful for o...
Quentin de la Bedoyere
The JPII Institute purge is a sign of weakness, not strength
it’s the beginning of the end for amoris laetitia, the document of pope francis on the family which attempted to change the church...
Fr Raymond de Souza
What every Catholic should know about the Eucharist
what does the catechism of the catholic church teach? it teaches that it is by the conversion of the bread and wine into christ’s body and b...
Fr Dwight Longenecker
Half of US Catholics think the Eucharist is only symbolic. How did this happen?
a news item last week reminded me of a story about the writer flannery o’connor. in one of her letters collected in the habit of being she d...
Fr Dwight Longenecker
Diary: The weekend I nearly died of embarrassment
this weekend, i nearly died of embarrassment – literally. i was making my way down to bullslaughter bay, a remote pembrokeshire beach, with ...
Harry Mount
French Catholics find unlikely allies in the fight against IVF
in recent years some of the most contentious debates in france have concerned what are conventionally called “social issues”. changes to fra...
Samuel Gregg
What does the rise of Boris mean for Catholics?
that boris johnson has become the first baptised catholic to occupy 10 downing street might suggest that god has a sharper sense of humour t...
Simon Caldwell
The JPII Institute has been plunged into an identity crisis
whichever view one takes of the changes to the pontifical john paul ii institute for studies on marriage and the family, now styled the pont...
Christopher R. Altieri
World news: from Medellín to Medjugorje
salem, oregon governor relaxes assisted suicide safeguard oregon, the first state to introduce assisted suicide, has loosened the rules arou...
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