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Catholic schools need to be much more careful when promoting secular 'mental health' resources
earlier this year, you may recall seeing this rather disturbing headline, “teacher told to apologise for addressing a classroom of fem...
Edmund Adamus
Expert says church is 'waking up' to climate crisis under Pope Francis
leicester, united kingdom – a leading catholic expert on the environment has said that under pope francis' leadership, “the whole church is ...
Charles Collins
Ridley Scott's 'Napoleon' manages the impressive feat of turning a 'great man' of history into an entirely uninteresting character
a sadly common feature of human beings is our ability to take something great and reduce it to something tawdry. think of the wonder of air ...
Anthony McCarthy
The 'War on Christmas' is lost: now it's time for Catholics to embrace the opportunities of the New Apostolic Age
i cannot recall a time when it was normal in the united states for strangers to wish one another “merry christmas” in the streets. neither c...
Peter Laffin
Who needs enemies? Pope's special nominee to Synod on Synodality facing trial in Sicily
rome – it has emerged that one of pope francis's special nominees to the synod on synodality, luca casarini, is under investigation in sicil...
John L Allen
'I am getting better': Pope gives Angelus address from home again on Advent Sunday
rome – on advent sunday pope francis gave his noontime angelus address from his private residence rather than saint peter’s square in order ...
Elise Allen
Pope Francis stays at Rome but sends message to world leaders gathered at COP28 in Dubai
rome – despite cancelling a planned trip to the cop28 united nations climate summit in dubai due to health concerns, pope francis sent a mes...
Elise Allen
'Your Lord is coming!' Setting out on a new Church year with Pope Francis
in st matthew's gospel we hear a beautiful promise that introduces us to the season of advent: “your lord is coming” (cf. mt 24:...
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The greatest miracle of all: the incomprehensible natural phenomenon of human nativity
james lefanu describes the almost incomprehensible natural phenomenon culminating in the birth of each one of us . seeing the christmas stor...
James Le Fanu
Home is where the hearth is
recalibrating christmas, one year at a time . midnight mass at the brompton oratory, 2013. as the celestial music and voices swirled to ever...
Flora Watkins
Spanish government continues to crack down on Catholics praying rosary in public
the spanish government has come under fire after police forcibly dissolved a public gathering of catholics praying the rosary in madrid. thi...
Tom Colsy
'It's the world in which we live': are British schools still helping children to flourish?
a few weeks ago, during a discussion on the various problems facing british schools, i was presented with a defence of the material routinel...
Katherine Bennett
Spiritual Retreats 2023/24: Introduction
from arizona to argyll, here is our selection of places to reset, reflect and spiritually refresh mind and soul. many of our selected retrea...
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Divine Renovation is waking up churches
lay engagement is a working plan to bring about parish renewal. there can’t be more convivial places than boodle’s club in london to discuss...
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Celestial assault in a mind-altering performance of Hildegard’s soaring music
whatever we know about the 12th-century religious polymath hildegard of bingen is new knowledge, because she all but vanished from the recor...
Michael White
God’s good dogs: Saluting the legacy of Fr Patrick Primrose, a Dominican hero
dominicans in the british isles cannot boast of a long list of reformation martyrs. cromwell and his henchmen were largely quite successful ...
Albert Robertson OP
On The Record: some fine listening choices for Advent and Christmas
perhaps more beautiful than the better-known “ veni emmanuel ” is the 17th-century french chant “ rorate caeli”. the antiphon melody shoots ...
Alex Hodgkinson
‘Mystic passionate emotion’: Hector Berlioz’s uncompromising Catholic vision
although he wrote a requiem mass, te deum , and other spiritual compositions, the french romantic composer hector berlioz has regularly rece...
Benjamin Ivry
Hear the angels sing: Some Christmas carols have a more complicated origin than we think
we might be surprised by the origin of certain christmas carols, says andrew gant one of the notable features of our much-loved christmas ca...
Andrew Gant
When the wind has flayed the trees: melancholia and the season
melancholy memories are part of the christmas experience for many . every advent sunday, i turn to a lovely poem by former archbishop of can...
Niall Gooch
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