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Prize crossword 0598
cryptic across 5 one in the habit of scaling cornwall’s southernmost point (6) 7 israel has what follows a sound backing with university inp...
Alun Evans
How to… Celebrate Corpus Christi
the feast of the most holy body and blood of christ, still often referred to by its shorter latin name of corpus christi, has benefited in r...
The Catholic Herald
Prayer should be for its own sake, not for reward
as i wait for interminable minutes on the car insurance helpline, i recognise that the muzak playing is the sound of silence. is this irony,...
Fr Dominic Allain
Little devotions help us become better Catholics
in the 13th century a priest on pilgrimage to rome was suffering doubts about the eucharist. during a mass his host become flesh and bled up...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
The Eucharist is both destination and sustenance
the body and blood of christ gen 14:18-20; 1 cor 11:23-26; lk 9:11-17 (year c) "the lord’s revelation to my master: ‘sit on my right, i will...
Bishop David McGough
Escaping the 'raging wee cantons' of Belfast
the ghost factory by jenny mccartney 4th estate, 272pp, £12.99/$17.99 the ghost factory is set in northern ireland at the tail end of the tr...
Michael Duggan
Schoenberg: The founding father of 'heroic modernism'
arnold schoenberg by mark berry reaktion books, 224pp, £12/$19 arnold schoenberg was a composer much given to statements of sweeping portent...
Michael White
A poet's guide to avoiding the fires of hell
spiritual direction from dante by fr paul pearson, tan books, 372pp, £20/$25 in the 700 years since the publication of dante alighieri’s thr...
Patrick Cusworth
Pavarotti's giant appetite for life
any film about luciano pavarotti must deliver the kind of experience that made him the most admired and recognised singer of his age. pavaro...
Deal Hudson
A Catholic writer's revolutionary realism
morley callaghan (1903-1990), a catholic writer from toronto, set out to be a chronicler of the urban scene of his native city. he sought to...
David Staines
Pray that Charlie's Law is passed
can a pair of brave but terribly sick little boys, neither of whom lived to see the age of two, move a whole nation to change unjust laws? o...
Sohrab Ahmari
Letters & emails
the challenge facing lourdes sir – the article by christopher altieri regarding the changes taking place at the lourdes sanctuary (vatican n...
The Catholic Herald
Contraception hasn't reduced demand for abortion
it was announced last week that terminations of pregnancy in the united kingdom had reached the highest number ever. more than 205,000 abort...
Mary Kenny
Not all conservative Catholics are unsettled by Francis's pontificate
since the 2016 presidential election, arguing has rapidly supplanted baseball as america’s national pastime. middle aged-men now congregate ...
Michael Warren Davis
Dear Fr Rutler: I can't stand my priest. Should I go parish-shopping?
dear father rutler, my wife is from poland, and with all the nuttiness in america today, i’m more and more inclined to accede to her request...
Fr George Rutler
How much free will do we really have?
i like to think of myself as a reasonably intelligent person. after all, i have had a long life, following a jesuit education, being married...
Quentin de la Bedoyere
Pope Francis was courageous to call out the diplomats
the holy see’s diplomatic corps – gathered en masse for their triennial meeting last week – has had its prominence and power restored under ...
Fr Raymond de Souza
As a chaplain, I think the new directive is a mistake
so the grand master of the order of malta has forbidden the extraordinary form. as of monday, june 10, we chaplains of the order may only of...
Fr Edmund Montgomery
Diary: I hope Boris proves his old tutor wrong
what a pleasure it is to listen to the vatican news in latin – or hebdomada papae, notitiae vaticanae latine redditae , to give the broadcas...
Harry Mount
The dramatic protests in Hong Kong are infused with religious fervour
"stop using baton, or we sing hallelujah to the lord,” read one of the placards among the sea of people marching yet again in hong kong last...
Benedict Rogers
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