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Banning sport on Sunday isn't a 'war on athletics'
archbishop allen vigneron issued a new policy last week banning sports games and practices on sundays in catholic schools in the archdiocese...
Jordan Bloom
Germany's 'church strike' puts its bishops in an awkward position
a women’s strike led by a dissident catholic group has sparked actions across germany. the maria 2.0 group, which uses an image of the bless...
Jon Anderson
How the South African Church is going to hold Ramaphosa to account
south africa’s 2019 general election was in many ways unsurprising. the ruling african national congress (anc) won a majority, albeit the sm...
Claire Mathieson
What kind of love makes for a marriage and a home?
during the years that i served as a religious superior for a province of oblate priests and brothers in western canada, i tried to keep my f...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
My plea to Cardinal Nichols: support your cathedral's great choir
for more than a century the liturgy in westminster cathedral has given inspiration and joy to hundreds of thousands of worshippers from all ...
Colin Mawby
Heretic of the week: John Wesley
john wesley (1703-1791) was a cleric of the church of england who unintentionally founded his own denomination. born to the rev samuel wesle...
Charles Coulombe
Prize crossword 0594
cryptic across 5 defeated by david, is zerah dead? (9) 8 ‘god zone’ is marginalized by americans (4) 9 native american, a popular author, un...
Alun Evans
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week ii sunday, may 26 : the sixth sunday of easter acts 15:1-2, 22-29; ps 67; rev 21:10-14, 22-23; jn 14:23-29 ...
The Catholic Herald
How to… Join the Swiss Guards
there have only been 100 serving swiss guards at any one time since their numbers were fixed in 1979. so competition to join this ancient an...
The Catholic Herald
A 14th-century tapestry as vivid as Game of Thrones
i do love the book of revelation, which figures large in our eastertide liturgy. cs lewis cautions that an allegory does not have to be deco...
Fr Dominic Allain
Mass is more than remembrance: it makes the Resurrection present now
here is the collect for the sixth sunday of easter in the ordinary form, which was glued together from bits of prayers from ancient sacramen...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Salvation is a gift, not an achievement
sixth sunday of easter acts 15:1-2 & 22-29; rev 21:10-14 & 22-23; jn 14:23-29 (year c) "some men came from judaea and taught the bro...
Bishop David McGough
Kociejowski's poems are an antidote to the dumbing down of modern life
collected poems by marius kociejowski carcanet, 99pp, £12.95/$18.99 the literary travelogue – with elements of history, anthropology, person...
Ian Thomson
Why was Britain's elite willing to swallow Hitler's lies?
appeasing hitler by tim bouverie bodley head, 512pp, £20/$25 "not another book on hitler," you protest. “can there be anything more to say?”...
Thelma Lovell
An island of saints and scholars seized by technocrats and wonks
my father left me ireland by michael brendan dougherty sentinel, 240pp, £20/$24 "you leave. i cry.” with these four words, michael brendan d...
Michael Duggan
To hell with moral equivalence: the Soviet spies helped advance evil
set in post-war britain, traitors (netflix originals) plunges its viewers into the world of espionage, chiefly of soviet infiltration of att...
Carl Curtis
How Bach turned the Gospel into sound
faith and the arts are natural partners. both aspire to the fusion of order with a creative leap of the imagination, connecting the ideal wi...
Thelma Lovell
Letters & emails
why women cannot be ordained sir – i wonder why matthew schmitz (comment, may 17) did not give your readers the reason why pope st john paul...
The Catholic Herald
Forget Mrs May's politics: her situation surely commands compassion
if the political soothsayers are correct, theresa may is in the dying days of her stewardship of 10 downing street. whether or not you agree...
Mary Kenny
We've come a long way since Cranmer called the pope the antichrist
in 1971, hunter s thompson looked back on his time in san francisco in the mid-1960s in one wistful passage from his most famous specimen of...
Andrew Petiprin
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