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June 7, 2019
The Catholic Herald
The family that could save Europe
a little over a hundred years ago, emperor karl of austria, his wife zita and their small children were forced to leave their last refuge in...
Charles Coulombe
Jean Vanier (1928-2019)
our differences are not a threat but a treasure. jean vanier, the founder of l’arche, who died in paris on may 7, wrote those words; but the...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
A Catholic childhood in Sri Lanka
the attack on local christians and western tourists in sri lanka on easter sunday grieved all people of good will, but especially catholics ...
Marion Boteju
Heretic of the week: Guy Ballard
guy ballard (1878-1939) was a true american original. born in newton, kansas, he became a mining engineer and moved to chicago. there he met...
Charles Coulombe
Prize crossword 0595
cryptic across 5 point to one of 2 being confused, mary being uniformly good? (5,4) 8 one of a devilish disposition: it’s santa – not (8) 9 ...
Alun Evans
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week iii sunday, june 2: the seventh sunday of easter acts 7:55-60; ps 97; rev 22:12-14, 16-17, 20; jn 17:20-26 ...
The Catholic Herald
How to… Climb the Holy Stairs
there is really only one way to climb the scala santa – or holy stairs – in rome, and that is on your knees. tradition holds that the white ...
The Catholic Herald
Discovering my rebellious spirit was a shock
st philip neri, whose feast day was on may 26, had many pithy maxims about the spiritual life. one of them was that you can measure a man’s ...
Fr Dominic Allain
The absurdity of 'Ascension Thursday Sunday'
on this complicated sunday people in many churches will observe in the ordinary form what we might call, for its absurdity, ascension thursd...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Our darkness can become Christ's light
the stoning of stephen, the church’s first martyr, reminds us that the cross is not simply the precursor of the resurrection. the cross is, ...
Bishop David McGough
A Catholic poet unskilled in the art of living
elizabeth jennings: the inward war by dana greene oup, 288pp, £25/$35 dana greene has written a sympathetic and perceptive study of the life...
Charlie Hegarty
Should we stop calling millennials 'snowflakes'?
generation left by keir milburn polity press, 140pp, £9.99/$15 young people don’t get a good press these days. sure, “the youth of today” is...
Patrick West
Bishop Barron expresses real outrage – and it's wonderful
letter to a suffering church by bishop robert barron word on fire catholic ministries, 57pp, 99p/$1.25 (kindle) a priest for 33 years and a ...
Fr Thomas Berg
A biblical guide for experts and novices alike
a history of the bible by john barton, allen lane 640pp, £25/$35 when i was a novice, one of my fellow novices encouraged me to read a book ...
Richard Ounsworth OP
Why dragons keep getting bigger
viewers who could see through the exceedingly murky final game of thrones season found a smorgasbord of smoldering fires, charred corpses, a...
Menachem Wecker
Letters & emails
do younger catholics rarely sin? sir – when i was about seven, i learned from my penny catechism that “purgatory is a place where souls suff...
The Catholic Herald
What preachers can learn from the European elections
i was once sent on a television coaching course in which a tutor in communications endeavoured to teach a group of us how to get our point a...
Mary Kenny
The Belfast boxing gym that made peace amid sectarianism
for most catholics living through the troubles, an invitation to a meeting with the leaders of the main loyalist paramilitary groups would h...
Will Gore
The statistic that shames Catholic politicians
if catholics were barred from public office, our politics might be greatly improved. such a harsh assessment would be unthinkable if catholi...
Matthew Schmitz
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