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The Best of the Web: March for Life, Fatima and comedy
marching for life and a positive future on the letters page of the financial times, john green took issue with another letter-writer, barbar...
Staff writers
Overlooked: Pope dampens expectations of women deacons
what happened? pope francis has disappointed campaigners for women deacons, saying that the commission he appointed to study the subject was...
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The Big Story: Vatican introduces new law on reporting abuse
what happened? whistleblowers will be protected and bishops given extra scrutiny under new laws promulgated by pope francis last thursday. v...
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Vos estis: revolution and realism
last week the vatican announced with much fanfare a new law concerning clerical abuse. the law, issued via the document vos estis lux mundi ...
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May 10th 2019
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How to... Pray for vocations
this sunday is the world day of prayer for vocations. it is an occasion set aside for asking our lord to serve his church with priests and r...
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Dear Fr Rutler: As a new convert, should I tone down my wardrobe?
dear father rutler, twice a month i attend a meeting of fellow knitters and needle-pointers. usually the conversations are focused on family...
Fr George Rutler
In praise of Eucharistic Prayer I
as a new catholic, i know i have been naïve about a number of things. one of them was assuming that at mass at most churches on any given su...
Andrew Petiprin
Time and eternity met in Les Murray's sacramental poetry
god, at the end of prose, somehow be our poem – when forebrainy consciousness goes. – les murray, “you find you can leave it all”, in consci...
Anian Christoph Wimmer
Heretic of the Week: Emanuel Swedenborg
emanuel swedenborg (1688-1772) was – not too surprisingly, given his name – a native of sweden. emanuel’s father, jesper swedenborg, was the...
Charles Coulombe
Mass Readings
ordinary form divine office week iv sunday, may 12: the fourth sunday of easter acts 13:14, 43-52; ps 100; rev 7:9,14b-17; jn 10:27-30 monda...
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How the abundance of nature expresses the love of God
i had a few hours free and from somewhere, i am not sure exactly where, came a compelling desire to see bluebells. i took myself to the roya...
Fr Dominic Allain
Like a mosaic, the Church needs a great Artist to arrange it
last week, those who frequent holy mass with the traditional roman rite heard the gospel about the good shepherd. in the novus ordo, that go...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Christ is our Shepherd. He cares about each one of us
our limited imaginations will always struggle to grasp the all-embracing nature of christ’s resurrection. life’s inevitable wounds and our f...
Bishop David McGough
Places, people and ancient instability
st mark the evangelist by serena fass, filament publishing (distributed by aid to the church in need uk), 315pp, £25/$30 serena fass is a re...
Lucien de Guise
An anthropologist looks at evolution and co-operation
"science is a magnificent force but it is not a teacher of morals.” so observed william jennings bryan in tennessee at the conclusion of the...
Thelma Lovell
From American Psycho to Charlie Hebdo
in may 2015, some 200 members of pen america, a respected literary organisation to which many writers belong, decided not to present the sur...
Ian Thomson
Even Bach struggled to capture the Resurrection in music
bach’s two great surviving passions – st matthew and st john – conclude at the tomb. there is no resurrection music. bach knows, of course, ...
Francis O’Gorman
Look closely and you can find the saints in Shakespeare
when most of us think of shakespeare we don’t immediately connect him with the saints. we might think of the play sir thomas more, on which ...
Joseph Pearce
Letters & Emails
the betrayal of the church in china sir – your leader, “east of eden” (may 3), expresses timely if overly respectful doubt about current vat...
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