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How to celebrate without getting a hangover
we don’t know how to celebrate things as they’re meant to be celebrated. we want to, but mostly we don’t know how. generally we celebrate ba...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
The fine line between fasting and dieting
if you are one of those radio listeners who find the bbc’s today programme boring, there is always nick ferrari’s lbc phone-in show in the m...
Andrew M Brown
Heretic of the week: Ignaz von Döllinger
ignaz von döllinger (1799-1890) was one of the 19th century’s best-known catholic historians – at least for the first part of his career. bo...
Charles Coulombe
Prize crossword 0585
cryptic across 5 african country where a carp repelled an intrusive horse (5) 6 descendant of ephraim’s incitement to wavering liverpool fan...
Alun Evans
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week iii sunday, march 24: third sunday of lent ex 3:1-8a, 13-15; ps 103; 1 cor 10:1-6, 10-12; lk 13:1-9 monday,...
The Catholic Herald
How to … Say the Angelus
in his description of “a short way to perfection” – the simple everyday ways to advance in holiness – blessed john henry newman mentions: “s...
The Catholic Herald
Keep Fridays meat-free – but alligator is fine
last week i concluded with the latin adage, plenus venter non studet libenter (“a full stomach doesn’t willingly apply itself to study”). re...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
A blunt challenge from St Paul
third sunday of lent ex 3:1-8 & 13-15; 1 cor 10:1-6 & 10-12; lk 13:1-9 (year c) on this third sunday of lent the encounter of moses ...
Bishop David McGough
An elusive painting, even after 500 pages
this is not just a painting by bernard lahire, translated by helen morrison, polity, 450pp, £30/$45 helen morrison has undoubtedly done engl...
Matt Thorne
The corruption of medicine
can medicine be cured? by seamus o’mahony, head of zeus, 256pp, £20/$22 even jeff bezos is going to die some time. so are we all, actually. ...
Thelma Lovell
Why art-house cinema can't escape the Bible
believing in film by mark le fanu, ib tauris, 368pp, £60/$78 film critics live in the dark, often literally underground – in basement screen...
Sebastian Cody
A painting worth pondering in Lent
in 1424, the 23-year-old florentine artist masaccio was commissioned to paint frescoes in the brancacci chapel. as one enters this chapel, t...
Michele Bregande
When a Protestant powerhouse turned to Catholic music
dresden, 1650. the thirty years’ war, officially over for only two years, hadn’t just decimated the population of saxony – which, technicall...
Jens F Laurson
Letters & emails
francis was quite clear on 'diversity' sir – the comments made by pope francis in his dubai statement about god willing a diversity of relig...
The Catholic Herald
The paradox of the 'child-free' movement
it has sometimes been claimed that the annunciation – which of course we mark on march 25 – is the most frequently painted theme in the hist...
Mary Kenny
'ISIS brides' weren't brainwashed. Just ask their victims
less than a year ago i stood in the ruined old city of mosul, standing next to the mosque where the caliphate had been proclaimed by isis le...
Fr Benedict Kiely
Is meat about to get the chop?
if, like me, you have millennial granddaughters, you will have encountered vegetarianism. what several years ago was regarded as an eccentri...
Quentin de la Bedoyere
A theological thriller that has stood the test of time
orwell thought that the novel was a protestant art form. this may seem silly, especially when you consider the number of catholic novelists,...
Allan Massie
Cardinal Danneels: the man who tried to surf a tsunami
a titan of the european church since the late 1970s, godfried danneels died as a symbol of an exhausted liberal catholicism resuscitated by ...
Fr Raymond de Souza
How to renew a diocese
over the years, i have worked in several dioceses and contexts. i’ve often heard brother priests say things like: “we don’t know where we’re...
Bishop Philip Egan
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