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In defence of masculinity
with the feast of st joseph coming up, let’s hear some cheers for men. for the male of the species. for manly courage and manly enduran...
Joanna Bogle
Heretic of the week: Louis Antoine
louis antoine (1846-1912) was born in mons-crotteux, belgium, in what we now call wallonia. he followed his father into the coal mines ...
Charles Coulombe
Prize crossword 0584
cryptic across 6 curing sort of a fish, girl and boy, for starters (5,7) 7 french festival that’s about names with extreme egos (6) 8 americ...
Alun Evans
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week ii sunday, march 17 : second sunday of lent gn 15:5-12, 17-18; ps 27; phil 3:17-4:1; lk 9:28b-36 monday, ma...
The Catholic Herald
How to… Use Mass cards
the impulse to obtain a mass card is one of those things that arrives out of the blue for many people, usually when the death of someon...
The Catholic Herald
St Alphonsus would have understood the Church's present woes
i remember when i was a teacher that one of the motivational techniques the jesuits employed was to cultivate a healthy rivalry. there were ...
Fr Dominic Allain
The meaning of 'The world, the flesh and the Devil'
in the extraordinary form of the roman rite this sunday we are served a bracing slap of reality. holy mass begins with an antiphon taken fro...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Second Sunday of Lent: Acknowledging our sin – and our dependence
second sunday of lent gen 15:5-12 & 17-18; phil 3:17 - 4:1; lk 9:28-36 (year c) "it is your face, o lord, that i seek. hide not you...
Bishop David McGough
When Native Americans backed the Jacobite cause
storm of the sea by matthew r bahar oxford university press, 320pp, £22.99/$35 it was 1715 and a tribal people were preparing to assist in r...
James Baresel
Spiritual books: a humbling conversion story
subtitled our journey to the catholic church, the great discovery, by ulf and birgitta ekman (ignatius press, 280pp, £13.75/$...
Francis Phillips
A masterly account of Ireland's descent into civil war
the battle of the four courts by michael fewer, head of zeus, 320pp, £20/$30 michael fewer’s the battle of the four courts is an account of ...
Michael Duggan
Films that take you into the wilderness with Jesus
it’s hard to understand why any director making a film about jesus would ignore the face-off with lucifer. cecil b demille has his mind else...
Deal Hudson
How the avant-garde ruined music
sir roger scruton calls the dutch composer john borstlap “one of the truly remarkable intellects of our time, a serious and inspired co...
Robert R Reilly
Letters & emails
a liturgy out of lawrence of arabia sir – jon anderson’s cover story on the eastern catholic churches (march 8) brought back memories of a h...
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Parents can't dictate a child's personality
the popular meghan markle, duchess of sussex, is happy to announce that not only is she expecting a baby at the end of april: she’s exp...
Mary Kenny
Ireland's pro-lifers still have reason to hope
growing up as an irish catholic in the 1990s and early 2000s, i was quietly but fiercely proud of my country. our economy was the envy of th...
Ben Conroy
The Charlie Brown cartoon that haunted Reagan
somerset house in london has put on an exhibition on the work of charles schulz, the american cartoonist famous for peanuts – the story of c...
Tim Stanley
Lenten etiquette can be its own penance
lent is here again and for the first time in 25 years i have changed my penance, considering that a quarter of a century of drinking nothing...
Ann Widdecombe
Pell, Barbarin and the need for canon law
the legal cases of three cardinals – theodore mccarrick, george pell and philippe barbarin – are a test of the church’s attitude towards her...
Fr Raymond de Souza
The Vatican reaches out to Silicon Valley
the holy father is anything but a techie. he admits to not knowing how to use a computer and encourages parents to forbid smartphones at the...
Michael Warren Davis
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