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Prize crossword 0592
cryptic across 7 close to death, drugs tom’s taken with a greek spirit (6) 8 heading east, team from brussels is first to discover old roman...
Alun Evans
Mass Readings
ordinary form divine office week iv sunday, may 12: the fourth sunday of easter acts 13:14, 43-52; ps 100; rev 7:9,14b-17; jn 10:27-30 monda...
The Catholic Herald
How the abundance of nature expresses the love of God
i had a few hours free and from somewhere, i am not sure exactly where, came a compelling desire to see bluebells. i took myself to the roya...
Fr Dominic Allain
Like a mosaic, the Church needs a great Artist to arrange it
last week, those who frequent holy mass with the traditional roman rite heard the gospel about the good shepherd. in the novus ordo, that go...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Christ is our Shepherd. He cares about each one of us
our limited imaginations will always struggle to grasp the all-embracing nature of christ’s resurrection. life’s inevitable wounds and our f...
Bishop David McGough
Places, people and ancient instability
st mark the evangelist by serena fass, filament publishing (distributed by aid to the church in need uk), 315pp, £25/$30 serena fass is a re...
Lucien de Guise
An anthropologist looks at evolution and co-operation
"science is a magnificent force but it is not a teacher of morals.” so observed william jennings bryan in tennessee at the conclusion of the...
Thelma Lovell
From American Psycho to Charlie Hebdo
in may 2015, some 200 members of pen america, a respected literary organisation to which many writers belong, decided not to present the sur...
Ian Thomson
Even Bach struggled to capture the Resurrection in music
bach’s two great surviving passions – st matthew and st john – conclude at the tomb. there is no resurrection music. bach knows, of course, ...
Francis O’Gorman
Look closely and you can find the saints in Shakespeare
when most of us think of shakespeare we don’t immediately connect him with the saints. we might think of the play sir thomas more, on which ...
Joseph Pearce
Letters & Emails
the betrayal of the church in china sir – your leader, “east of eden” (may 3), expresses timely if overly respectful doubt about current vat...
The Catholic Herald
Why power has shifted in the classroom
it is in the nature of things that the pendulum should swing. it’s even in the nature of things that the pendulum, when seeking to correct a...
Mary Kenny
The Catholic sympathies of a romantic painter
returning from supper in bayeux to his battalion in the normandy countryside one july evening in 1944, the artist and welsh guards officer r...
Daniel Frampton
Sacred mysteries and cheeky cigarettes
greek roads are a fascinating experiment in libertarianism. on an almost empty motorway, a fellow driver used the hard shoulder to overtake ...
Tim Stanley
A very Spanish kind of populism
the outcome of spain's recent general election has plunged national politics into uncertainty. the spanish socialist workers’ party (psoe) i...
Tom Gallagher
Communion and the Church's mess
there was an odd story from holy week about the new man in the chilean capital, santiago. bishop celestino aós, the apostolic administrator ...
Fr Raymond de Souza
The heresy letter is intelligent, but doesn't quite convince
the open letter “accusing pope francis of the canonical delict of heresy” raises several canonical questions. it is generally recognised, su...
Edward Peters
From Washington to Rome, heresy accusations are back
on the evening of may 24 last year, 2,000 left-leaning christians gathered for a candlelit vigil outside the white house. the group’s leader...
Dan Hitchens
Diary: In the footsteps of St Paul
we are visiting thessaloniki, following in the footsteps of st paul. the epistles may not be our compass point (we are using mark mazower’s ...
Cristina Odone
Why African bishops are warning about misuse of holy oils
bishops across africa are warning priests not to misuse holy oils. they are concerned that practices associated with the revival churches ar...
Antoine Roger Lokongo
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