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Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week i sunday, march 10 : first sunday of lent dt 26:4-10; ps 91; rom 10:8-13; lk 4:1-13 monday, march 11 : week...
The Catholic Herald
How to … Deny yourself
during lent, catholics are urged to pray, give to charity and fast. the faithful also “give things up” as they unite themselves with our lor...
The Catholic Herald
Should you give up chocolate and social media for Lent?
i drive down to celebrate mass with a contemplative community in hampshire and all along the roadside the hedgerows are white with hawthorn....
Fr Dominic Allain
Lent is drill practice for our spiritual battle
each day during lent has, traditionally, assigned a church in rome called a “station”. in ancient times the people and clergy would process ...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Jesus's temptations - and ours
first sunday of lent deut 26:4-10; rom 10:8-13; lk 4:1-13 (year c) "my father was a wandering aramaean. he went down into egypt. the egyptia...
Bishop David McGough
When artists led the Church out of crisis
how catholic art saved the faith by elizabeth lev sophia institute press, 320pp, £15/$19 at the end of last year i visited the mantegna and ...
Francis Phillips
Diderot's self-centred rebellion
diderot and the art of free thinking by andrew curran, other press, 320pp, £22/$29 the late, great, arch-reactionary fr jean-marie charles-r...
Patrick West
Is playing sport really a spiritual practice?
ways to go beyond and why they work by rupert sheldrake coronet, 336pp, £20/$25 to be a scientist in modern times has generally meant being ...
Michael White
Sonatas to help you pray the rosary
catholics who love the rosary may be unaware of an extraordinary aid to their prayer: the rosary sonatas, by the bohemian composer and violi...
Jens F Laurson
Discovering the hidden Catholic messages in Tudor sacred music
one of the curious features of the first edition of the book of common prayer is its approach to the event of the reformation. of course the...
Francis O’Gorman
Letters & emails
why i will not leave the church sir – i was received into the church, as a convert, in 1980, was ordained deacon in southwark archdiocese in...
The Catholic Herald
The tangled roots of modern anti-Semitism
most of us, i would think, have watched in dismay at the spectre of anti-semitism which seems to be haunting the labour party. it is truly a...
Mary Kenny
Coco Chanel, the Savonarola of fashion
coco chanel had no precursors in fashion. her forerunners were religious fanatics, the ascetic souls who scourge themselves and their societ...
Matthew Schmitz
Is there any stopping the surrogacy revolution?
one way to keep up with the state of progressive thought is to browse the new releases from verso books. this year they promise titles such ...
Ben Sixsmith
Vatican financial reform is in tatters
there is a classic episode of yes minister in which jim hacker is exasperated that a newly built hospital is fully staffed with some 500 adm...
Fr Raymond de Souza
Can you name all 23 Eastern Catholic Churches?
albanian greek catholic church not to be confused with the italo-albanian catholic church, the 4,000 or so members of this byzantine rite co...
The Catholic Herald
The beautiful witness of the Eastern Catholic Churches
the coal country of north-eastern pennsylvania is full of depressed small towns which have been losing population for decades. today, if the...
Jon Anderson
Diary: 40 years on, British transport is even worse
when i was a boy, my highest ambition was to be a soldier. i dreamt of a career as a dashing officer in the life guards, adorning myself eac...
David Oldroyd-Bolt
In Australia, Pell's most outspoken defenders are outside the hierarchy
when the mccarrick scandal first broke in america, catholics began to leave the church in droves. but when the verdict against cardinal geor...
Natasha Marsh
Catholic voters are likely to face an unappetising choice in 2020
last march, cardinal timothy dolan wrote an op-ed in the wall street journal headlined “the democrats abandon catholics”. the archbishop of ...
Michael Warren Davis
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