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Meanwhile: Facebook removes St Augustine's hate speech
st augustine of hippo has been targeted by facebook for ‘‘hate speech’’. two priests quoted the 5th-century saint’s warning a...
Staff writers
The best of the web: Notre Dame, Duterte, and the decline of a godless church
notre-dame’s close call: the inside story the new york times “conducted scores of interviews and reviewed hundreds of documents” for a long ...
Staff writers
The week ahead: Summer fair, prayer for priests, acts of reparation
saturday august 3 is the westminster cathedral summer fair, from 11am to 3pm in the cathedral hall. pimms will be served at this fundraising...
Staff writers
Overlooked: Parents fight hospital to treat child abroad
what happened? two british parents are asking the high court for permission to take their daughter to italy, after a dispute with doctors ov...
Staff writers
The big story: Cardinal deplores synod document's 'false teaching'
what happened the vatican’s former doctrinal chief has criticised the preparatory document for the amazon synod, claiming that it conta...
Staff writers
It won't be easy to shore up religious freedom
in the decade from 2007 to 2017, religious freedom declined around the world. that is the conclusion of a major new study by the pew re...
The Catholic Herald
July 26, 2019
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God speaks to us in every event of our lives
the problem in the world and in the churches, the american theologian jim wallis suggests, is that perennially conservatives get it wro...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Boris was a great boss, but I wouldn't vote for him
this time next week, if the opinion polls and experts are to be trusted – and they seldom are – boris johnson will be prime minister. it is ...
Stuart Reid
Heretic of the week: Ignatius Loyola Donnelly
ignatius loyola donnelly (1831-1901) was born in philadelphia to an irish catholic immigrant family. his father, a doctor, died young, and h...
Charles Coulombe
Prize crossword 0602
cryptic across 5 pope in rome, number thirteen connected to st lucia – that’s high (8,3) 7 game with horses left mess all around (4) 8 herb’...
Alun Evans
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week iv sunday, july 21 : 16th sunday in ordinary time gn 18:1-10a; ps 15; col 1:24-28; lk 10:38-42 mo...
The Catholic Herald
How to… Use holy medals
there is a theory that the use of holy medals in the catholic church might have originated from pagan practices, when missionaries christian...
The Catholic Herald
The hardest thing about my last 20 years as a priest
in the days before there were memes, evangelical churches used to display catchy posters on their noticeboards. they included “ch —ch. what’...
Fr Dominic Allain
Vigilance is the price of being a Christian
here is the collect for the 16th ordinary sunday. it has an antecedent in a 9th-century manuscript. enjoy the fine clausula (rhythmic ending...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
It is in moments of worry that the Lord comes to us
"abraham looked up, and there he saw three men standing before him. as soon as he saw them he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them...
Bishop David McGough
Fulton Sheen's brilliant guide to Jesus's last hours
stephen f auth’s the missionary of wall street (sophia institute press, 184pp, £14.40/$15) is subtitled from managing money to saving souls ...
Francis Phillips
Tippett was silly and pretentious, but his works are masterpieces
michael tippett: the biography by oliver soden weidenfeld and nicolson, 768pp, £25/$34.95 it’s virtually a law of nature that composers fall...
Michael White
It wasn't Colonel Blimp who gave us Brexit
anglo nostalgia by edoardo campanella and marta dassù hurst publications, 234pp, £25/$32.95 there has for some time been a popular theory th...
Patrick West
The Last Czars on Netflix: What did the Romanovs do to deserve this?
the last czars, on netflix, juggles documentary and drama with mixed results. the documentary sections, with commentary from a half dozen or...
Carl Curtis
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