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Pope pays respects to his late confessor and praises Franciscan order
at the weekend the pope made an unexpected trip across rome to pay his respects to a franciscan priest who died last week and had been the p...
Crux Staff
A bittersweet correspondence between Rainer Maria Rilke and his gardener friend
nick ripatrazone looks at letters around a garden by rainer maria rilke, written to his close friend antoinette, a gardener, a century ago. ...
Nick Ripatrazone
‘Little Englishmen’ in Portugal: a new book about the English College at Lisbon
the english college at lisbon 1622-1972 , by simon johnson gracewing, £25, 272 pages the relationship between britain and portugal is often ...
Deacon Stephen Morgan
Across the Thames: a new book about Southwark but not much about its Catholics
liberty over london bridge: a history of the people of southwark by margaret willes yale university press, £20, 304 pages the dead are inter...
Andrew Cusack
Music for the Masses: The process of writing music to draw out and illuminate the sacred text
when the church chooses to renew its historic position as a patron of the arts by commissioning new sacred music for the liturgy, a composer...
Frank La Rocca
Body and soul: a selection of music to celebrate Corpus Christi and Ss Peter & Paul
proclaimed before the gospel on the feast of corpus christi, lauda sion is one of the four medieval sequences that remain in annual use. the...
Alex Hodgkinson
The new Britain: UK prepares for a landmark election
the outcome of the uk’s coming general election seems not to be in doubt; the only question is the size of the labour majority. rishi sunak’...
The Catholic Herald
Where to eat after Mass: Igreja da Madalena, Lisbon, and Cervejaría Ramiro
this beautiful church in downtown lisbon, dedicated to st mary magdalene, has many attributes – among which is that it holds masses in engli...
Charles Pelham
Sainthood cause progress for mum who refused cancer treatment to save unborn child
rome – the sainthood cause of an italian mother who refused cancer treatment to save her unborn child is to move forward after completing it...
The Catholic Herald
Vatican accuses former US nuncio Archbishop Viganò of schism
rome – a vatican decree leaked to the italian press states that italian archbishop carlo maria viganò, a former nuncio to the united states ...
Elise Allen
The decline and fall of marriage - the last days
somewhere in my distant memory i recall how about 20 years ago an agitated young man in the audience of tv politics show asked oona king, th...
Simon Caldwell
AI’s alleged ‘psychopathic tendencies’ are not what should be concerning us
the first time i heard of chatgpt was last year, when i received an email circulated among some university chaplains. we were presented with...
Fr Robert Verrill OP
Catholic parishes in Lebanon suffering as country sucked into Israel-Gaza war
the catholic parishes of southern lebanon are in an increasingly precarious position as violence spills across its border as a result of the...
Crux Staff
All doubts are dispelled by a convert’s first enchanted encounter with the Eternal City
as a convert to catholicism, i’d deliberately delayed my inaugural visit to rome. i was aware of the impact such a trip to the “eternal city...
Tom Colsy
Vatican to endorse key figure in China’s Catholic history
this week the vatican appears to be renewing its efforts to remain onside with the chinese authorities. two top officials are poised to spea...
Elise Allen
'Why wear distinctive clerical dress?' - One of the Herald’s chaplains answers your questions
a concerned catholic : i was told that pope francis, at the synod last year, circulated a paper which, among things, advocated the abolition...
The Catholic Herald
Free but far from equal: Juneteenth, Jim Crow and the legacy of race in America
race relations in the us and uk are persistent and seemingly intractable issues. while both countries have had admirable successes in assimi...
Ken Craycraft
Ukraine’s leading Catholic archbishop says country’s fight represents religious freedom's survival
ukraine’s leading catholic archbishop says an independent ukraine is synonymous with religious freedom. major archbishop sviatoslav shevchuk...
Crux Staff
Sunak on assisted suicide: British PM is willing to sacrifice most vulnerable to assuage middle-class fears of death
the world of politics can sometimes be a matter of life and death, as well as being about promoting different versions of a standard of livi...
Gavin Ashenden
Editorial: Harrison Butker's courageous convictions highlight a reality of the Catholic Church in the US today
quite the most astonishing thing about a speech given by the professional american footballer harrison butker last month, is the backlash it...
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