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Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week iv sunday, march 3 : eighth sunday in ordinary time sir 27:4-7; ps 92; 1 cor 15:54-58; lk 6:39-45 monday, m...
The Catholic Herald
How to … Pray, fast and give alms
on wednesday lent begins, and with it the call to three ancient spiritual disciplines: prayer, fasting and almsgiving. these are three ways ...
The Catholic Herald
The best thing that could emerge from the abuse summit
fine words butter no parsnips. nor indeed can jargon take the place of an attempt to serve a better quality of vegetable. at the risk of see...
Fr Dominic Allain
We can all strive to live without mortal sin
"we are in a fight for our lives." this was part of the message ancient converts received as they approached their reception into the church...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
The parable that makes us feel most uncomfortable
eighth sunday of the year eccl 27:4-7; 1 cor 15:54-58; lk 6:39-45 (year c) ‘the kiln tests the work of the potter, the test of a man is in h...
Bishop David McGough
The myth of the Bridge on the River Kwai
to the kwai – and back: war drawings 1939-1945 by ronald searle souvenir press, 308pp, £12.99/$19.99 this is a welcome reprint by souvenir p...
David Oldroyd-Bolt
The surprising truth about the Roman army at the time of Christ
the roman army and the new testament by christopher zeichmann fortress academic, 208pp, £60/$80 few phrases are as cringe-inducing as “the h...
James Baresel
What do you get when you cross Cirque du Soleil with Vatican pomp?
something about philip glass i’ve learned over the years is that by asking very little of his music you can sometimes be surprised by what y...
Michael White
Private education is unfair, but is there anything we can do about it?
engines of privilege by francis green and david kynaston bloomsbury, 320pp, £20/$28 gilded youth by james brooke-smith reaktion, 272pp, £18/...
Harry Mount
Miracle Workers: Daniel Radcliffe's heaven-set comedy fails miserably
has hollywood ever really cared about god – i mean the true god, father, son and holy ghost? probably not. the great god mammon is another b...
Carl Curtis
Letters & emails
a papal visit and a war the world forgot sir – why don’t we care about yemen? the question is posed following your coverage (february 8 edit...
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St Paul can help us tackle the curse of opioid addiction
i first learned about the opioid affliction in america on reading jd vance’s marvellous memoir hillbilly elegy – his story about growing up ...
Mary Kenny
How to survive a secular workplace
one of the alarming effects of living in a society less and less beholden to traditional christian morality is that many catholics find them...
William Newton
The most distressing thing about the Jussie Smollett case
the police reckon jussie smollett made it all up. they say the black, gay, openly 36-year-old actor orchestrated an assault on his person – ...
Tim Stanley
When was the last time you set aside an hour for self-examination?
before he was elected pope, joseph ratzinger spoke of socrates as “in a certain respect the prophet of jesus christ”. he saw him as a philos...
Quentin de la Bedoyere
Cardinal Zen: What the Church is risking in its dialogue with China
unfortunately, when someone in the vatican talks about the church’s “soft power”, they still mean it in a political (worldly) sense. the gen...
Cardinal Joseph Zen
Will the abuse summit be a turning point for the Church?
the vatican’s clerical abuse summit was many things at the same time, some of them contradictory. the summit was the sixth major initiative ...
Fr Raymond de Souza
We have a big new home, but there's a reason it feels so empty
i almost jumped out of my skin on saturday morning. i had arrived at the hairdressers’ early and nipped to the loo before my appointment. i ...
Madeleine Teahan
The row over Franco's body exposes divisions in the Church
controversial plans by spain’s governing socialists to rebury general francisco franco will not be opposed by the vatican, which has now ins...
Jonathan Luxmoore
What Catholics can learn from Ethiopia's Pentecostal PM
at the end of last month, pope francis welcomed africa’s most-watched young leader to the vatican. abiy ahmed, prime minister of ethiopia, a...
Fr Alistair Jones, OP
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