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Our true identity is revealed through the mystery of the Trinity
trinity sunday prov 8:22-31; rom 5:1-5; jn 16:12-15 (year c) as creatures, we can never penetrate the mystery of the one god revealed as fat...
Bishop David McGough
The profound kindness of John Buchan
beyond the thirty-nine steps by ursula buchan, bloomsbury, 492pp, £25/$28 john buchan (1875-1940) has proved more enduring than most of his ...
David Platzer
Meritocracy has failed the underclass
dignity: seeking respect in back row america by chris arnade sentinel, 304pp, £25/$18 books featuring battles between the shift manager at a...
Steve Larkin
Good Omens is a travesty of eschatology
good omens on amazon prime is a five and one-half hour exercise in schoolboy humour, that is, a brand of humour practised by witty adolescen...
Carl Curtis
Faith is the golden thread running through Stockhausen's work
musical – artistic – modernism is a godless pursuit. or so the maxim runs – especially among those discomfited by dissonance, while modern c...
Peter Quantrill
Letters & emails
could you create a catholic business? sir – in response to the cover story (may 31) entitled “what went wrong?”, in which stephen bullivant ...
The Catholic Herald
When Anglicans founded religious orders
i love oxford. whenever i return there i am enchanted by the medieval origins of the university (and the achievements of men like roger baco...
Charles Coulombe
Don't alter the Our Father
many years ago, when my father found himself in an international setting, someone asked him – i believe it was a hungarian linguist – what t...
Mary Kenny
I've never seen a ghost, but I believe in them
i have never thought it strange that so many people do not believe in god. what i find peculiar is the number of people, many of them sane a...
Richard Ingrams
Longing for lost worlds won't convert America
when young radicals gathered in the streets of paris in may 1968, régis debray was nowhere to be seen. as his friends playacted at revolutio...
Matthew Schmitz
The sci-fi classic that rose out of Monte Cassino's ruins
it is often said that a writer’s inspiration can come from anywhere, but 75 years ago the muse was to be found falling from the bomb bays of...
Alfred Searls
Ann Widdecombe: I was branded a 'vile' bigot for opinions I don't hold
free speech in the uk is supposedly guaranteed under article 10 of the human rights act 1998. the act specifies that such a right is limited...
Ann Widdecombe
The extraordinary prayer that launched D-Day
it was a stroke of ceremonial genius. at the d-day 75th anniversary commemorations at portsmouth, how to ensure that the assembled heads of ...
Fr Raymond de Souza
The Church's next scandal is money
"the devil always enters by way of the pocket." it’s a phrase that pope francis often repeats. he has it on no lesser authority than that of...
Christopher R. Altieri
Diary: The Sign of Peace fills me with terror
i managed an impressive shriek during the consecration on saturday, while i watched in slow motion as my two-year-old seemed to be about to ...
Madeleine Teahan
Franco's tomb is still a headache for the Church
spain’s catholic church has promised to respect a supreme court judgment barring the exhumation of general francisco franco from his mausole...
Jonathan Luxmoore
Cardinal Pell's appeal: what we know so far
last week, cardinal pell’s appeal was heard at the supreme court of victoria’s court of appeal, presided by chief justice anne ferguson and ...
Natasha Marsh
What happens when a priest is too traditional for his parish?
it’s something of a trope these days. first, a young priest is assigned to a new parish, where he reintroduces elements of the pre-vatican i...
Michael Warren Davis
How one country is trying to renew the priesthood
every priest in england and wales has been invited to westminster cathedral for a mass of thanksgiving and for the renewal of priests. with ...
Simon Caldwell
Why the Vatican has stepped in at Lourdes
last week was very eventful, especially insofar as the politics of ecclesiastical crisis and scandal are concerned, so it is quite possible ...
Christopher R. Altieri
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