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detroit, michigan sister resigns from seminary after abuse allegations a nun has resigned as a faculty member of a seminary in detroit after...
Staff writers
Week in review
the big story of the past seven days ✣ catholic students caught in media backlash what happened? a catholic school in kentucky faced a backl...
Staff writers
What a successful abuse summit would look like
we are almost a decade into the global fight against clerical abuse and we have little to show for it. in 2011, the vatican asked the world’...
The Catholic Herald
January 25, 2019
The Catholic Herald
Dear Fr Rutler: how can a priest and recovering alcoholic consume the Precious Blood?
dear father rutler, i’m a priest and a recovering alcoholic, and i dread the day i have to drink a large amount of christ’s sacred blood lef...
Fr George Rutler
Fall of a celebrity priest
on january 7, the washington post reported that in 2005 opus dei paid the astonishing sum of $977,000 to a woman who accused fr john mcclosk...
Mark Benbow
Catholics belong at Burns Night
last january 25 and next january 25, i took and shall take part in a ritual at once solemn and amusing, timeless and spontaneous – not part ...
Charles Coulombe
Long Island’s little secrets
as you approach the final stretch of long island, new york, the land mass splits into twin forks, as equally beautiful as they are distinct ...
Robert Wargas
Struggling for sustenance
we all struggle not to give in to coldness and hatred. this was even a struggle for jesus. like the rest of us, he had to struggle, mightily...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Hopkins can console believers who struggle with depression
in the year 1866, gerard manley hopkins feels like an exile. he’s publicly announced his intention to convert to the catholic faith from his...
Fr Michael Rennier
Heretic of the week: Mani
mani (216-274) was an iranian who lived during the transition of power in persia from the foreign parthians to the native sassanid dynasty –...
Charles Coulombe
Prize crossword 0576
cryptic across 7 girl getting support at new church is a token of peace (5,6) 8 unexpected drink after a mother gets bargains here? (5,3) 9 ...
Alun Evans
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week ii sunday, january 20 : second sunday in ordinary time is 62:1-5; ps 96; 1 cor 12:4-11; jn 2:1-11 monday, j...
The Catholic Herald
How to … Honour the Holy Name
the feast of the holy name of jesus, which falls on january 3, has been and gone – but the entire month of january is devoted to the holy na...
The Catholic Herald
My first time celebrating a baptism in the Extraordinary Form
i have celebrated a baptism in the extraordinary form for the first time. i mention this not as the opening salvo in some campaign, rather t...
Fr Dominic Allain
Omnium Gatherum
this week we encounter a liturgical unicorn. we shall celebrate the second sunday in ordinary time in the ordinary form of the roman rite, a...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
The Word this Week
second sunday of the year is 62:1-5; 1 cor 12:4-11; jn 2:1-11 (year c) "about zion i will not be silent … no longer are you to be named ‘for...
Bishop David McGough
The quest for the ‘historical Jesus’ started early in Asia
jesus in asia by rs sugirtharajah harvard university press, 311pp, £21.95/$30 the quest for the historical jesus has been an obsession of we...
Jonathan Wright
Fellini's films mingle piety with paganism
fellini’s eternal rome by alessandro carrera bloomsbury, 186pp, £65/$80 no film conjured so memorably the flashbulb glitz and moral darkness...
Ian Thomson
A unique yet universal journey into the Church
from fire, by water by sohrab ahmari ignatius, 240pp, £18/$22 my first thought when reading sohrab ahmari’s from fire by water: my journey t...
Tim Stanley
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