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Courage and diplomacy in the UAE
it’s only because conditions elsewhere in the muslim world are so much worse that the united arab emirates appears to be a land of “toleranc...
Fr Raymond de Souza
How to free your brain
why is the first paragraph of this column so important? that is easy to answer: if the first paragraph sounds sufficiently interesting you a...
Quentin de la Bedoyere
'So many people are not listening': an interview with Cardinal Brenes
in granada, a city in western nicaragua, vast colonial houses with peeling pastel façades stand in the searing sun. horses and carts bounce ...
Rachel Collingwood
Latin is the true language of love
since next week we mark the feast of st valentine – a priest and physician in rome whose cult came to be associated with love because of the...
Mary Kenny
Letters & emails
obesity, genes and st thomas aquinas sir – mary kenny (comment, february 1) says that a new report sheds light on the long-running deba...
The Catholic Herald
An odd combination: 'Bill Viola/Michelangelo: Life, Death, Rebirth' reviewed
most of the archers in michelangelo’s archers shooting at a herm (c 1530) have forgotten their bows. they stretch as if to draw their string...
Daisy Dunn
Mariss Jansons ranks at the very top of the world league of conductors
foreign orchestras fly into london frequently enough for them to pass unnoticed. but when the bavarian radio symphony came to the barbican l...
Michael White
The 'God debate' has moved on from Dawkins
it keeps me seeking by andrew briggs, andrew steane and hans halvorson, oup, 368pp, £19.99/$30 this work illustrates rather nicely the law o...
Alister McGrath
Spiritual books: how to sanctify your daily life
first published in 1946, when the future cardinal stefan wyszyński was bishop of lublin, sanctify your daily life (ewtn/gracewing, 192pp, £1...
Francis Phillips
Evangelisation is a tightrope - but Our Lady can help us find our balance
mary, star of evangelization: tilling the soil and sowing the seed by jacob phillips paulist press, 192pp, £24.99/$24.95 pity the catholic e...
Michael Duggan
The Church is not afraid to combine images of family and soldiering
a couple of weeks ago, we met a "liturgical unicorn". unicorns do pop up once in a while. he's back this sunday too: the same collect in bot...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Finding our vocation: a reflection on this Sunday's Mass readings
fifth sunday of the year is 6:1-8; 1 cor 15:1-11; luke 5:1-11 (year c) in the language of the secular world, the word "vocation" refers to a...
Bishop David McGough
Prize crossword 0579
cryptic across 5 darling emmy's made up for show (2,3,2,4) 8 one who runs place without a dining facility (6) 9 jehallelel's issue when a ba...
Alun Evans
What is 'spirituality' anyway?
what is spirituality and what makes for different spiritualities? the word "spirituality" is relatively new within the english-speaking worl...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
February 8, 2019
The Catholic Herald
Two weeks after Covington, the post-mortem continues
there’s something ironic about journalists criticising children with an enormous megaphone and yet maintaining that they are on the side of ...
Jordan Bloom
King Charles I, Founding Father
what was “washington’s birthday” is quickly approaching us: now often redubbed “presidents’ day”, the repackaging allows us to forget “linco...
Charles Coulombe
Dear Fr Rutler: I don't like giving the sign of peace. Is that wrong?
dear father rutler, i don’t like giving the sign of the peace at mass. it seems to me like a needless distraction. i can glad-hand mrs smith...
Fr George Rutler
In today's Church, ugliness is finally in decline
i was in the fitzwilliam museum, cambridge, last week, nosing around a sarcophagus, when a man with a beard asked if i was who he thought i ...
Tim Stanley
The young choir reimagining the Renaissance
mixed voice adult choirs have given us new perspectives on the trove of renaissance choral music over the past 30 years or so. the clerkes o...
Francis O’Gorman
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