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Christians will always be inspired – and divided – by music
christian music: a global history by tim dowley spck, 336pp, £14.99/$30 this revised and expanded version of a “global history” first publis...
Michael Duggan
The Word this Week
fourth sunday of the year jer 1:4-5 & 17-19; 1 cor 12:31 - 13:13; lk 4:21-30 (year c) "before i formed you in the womb i knew you; befor...
Bishop David McGough
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week iv sunday, february 3 : fourth sunday in ordinary time jer 1:4-5, 17-19; ps 71; 1 cor 12:31—13:13; lk 4:21-...
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Prize crossword 0578
cryptic across 7 pose stagehand as something else in matthew’s analogy (5,3,5) 8 undermine party that’s dogging the international team (4) 9...
Alun Evans
Heretic of the week: Ulrich Zwingli
ulrich (or huldrych) zwingli (1484-1531) is considered to be, alongside luther and calvin, one of the three “fathers of the reformation”. ye...
Charles Coulombe
The romantic novelist who lived like a nun
a recent issue of the spectator featured a surprising article. it was self-critical, apolitical and highly readable. commissioning editor ma...
Lucien de Guise
An African tale of interconnectedness
everything is of one piece. whenever we don’t take that seriously, we pay a price. the renowned theologian hans urs von balthasar gives an e...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
February 1, 2019
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A tribute to my friend, Wendy Beckett
no community should botch its deaths. the renowned anthropologist mircea eliade suggested this, and its truth applies to communities at ever...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Does travel narrow the mind?
"i feel european,” says jeremy clarkson, the presenter of amazon’s the grand tour, in an interview with the daily beast website a few days a...
Andrew M Brown
Heretic of the week: Mary Baker Eddy
mary baker eddy (1821-1910) was born in bow, new hampshire, and raised in a calvinist household. the nascent intellectual in mary rebelled a...
Charles Coulombe
Prize crossword 0577
cryptic across 5 pharisee’s into fish and birds (9) 8 house inside diocese is brown all-over (6) 9 official paper subdued those learning to ...
Alun Evans
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week iii sunday, january 27 : third sunday in ordinary time neh 8:2-4a, 5-6, 8-10; ps 19; 1 cor 12:12-30; lk 1:1...
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How to… Say the rosary
finding a rosary is easily done, since they are on sale at churches and online, and the cheapest plastic ones can be very cheap. it’s worth ...
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Why I've invested in a travelling altar
a large and heavy parcel arrives swathed in layers of packing and customs forms. i know exactly what it is because it is a present. in a sen...
Fr Dominic Allain
Even in Japan, the Traditional Mass was reassuringly familiar
it was an age of the great charity which impelled missionaries to cross both endless seas and narrow channels. they bore in their hands the ...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
The Word this Week
third sunday of the year neh 8:2-6 & 8-10; 1 cor 12:12-30; lk 1:1-4 & 4:14-21 (year c) ‘the law of the lord is perfect, it revives t...
Bishop David McGough
Why the Soviet Union couldn’t replace Christianity
a sacred space is never empty by victoria smolkin princeton, 360pp, £35/$40 this book’s title comes from a russian proverb – as such it prov...
Jack Carrigan
Did Shakespeare hide subversive messages in his poems?
shakespeare and the resistance by clare asquith, public affairs books, 256pp, £21.99/$28 not since picking up the friends of eddie coyle, th...
Simon Caldwell
Why Kaiser Wilhelm was never put on trial
the trial of the kaiser by william schabas oup, 412pp, £25/$35 "we’re going to hang jeff davis from a sour-apple tree,” sang yankee soldiers...
Allan Massie
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