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Notebook from Lisbon: Dutch courage at World Youth Day
lisbon - the organisers of the world youth day (wyd) events are proud of the unparalleled internationality of their participants. however, t...
Tom Colsy
Priests must play soccer, not preach dogma, says Pope in broadside against traditionalists
rome – pope francis has attacked the “corruption” of restorationist movements within the church and said the second vatican council has not ...
Crux Staff
'Everyone is so on fire': Pilgrims savour atmosphere of World Youth Day
lisbon – youths attending wyd in lisbon this week alongside hundreds of thousands of their peers have marvelled at the electric atmosphere, ...
Elise Ann Allen
Young Chinese Catholics speak of hope of papal visit to China
lisbon – young people from china attending world youth day in lisbon have praised pope francis’s kindness and invited him to visit, saying c...
Elise Ann Allen
Raw, unadulterated walking
a simple joy and peace comes from walking, whether alone or with someone close, says julian kwasniewski. walking with the sun on your back; ...
Julian Kwasniewski
Response to life
michael white enjoys three very different outstanding performances. when music tourists go to leipzig it tends to be for js bach, who lies b...
Michael White
The Bible’s strange poetry
a new translation of a book exploring the bible’s foreign and divine language is a spirited defence of the sacred, poetic word, says nick ri...
Nick Ripatrazone
Life without crises is barely life at all, Pope Francis tells young people
lisbon –pope francis has met with young people involved in an organisation he established personally in buenos aires, encouraging them to ac...
Elise Ann Allen
James Jeffrey's Catholic Herald pilgrimage guide to Assisi
umbria in italy beckons for the next catholic herald pilgrimage at the end of september. we are venturing beyond the iberian peninsula to wa...
James Jeffrey
Clerical eco-activists and taking God's name in vain
it is not easy to watch pictures of an elderly protestant clergywoman, sporting her dog collar, being arrested for breaching the peace as sh...
Gavin Ashenden
Pope in Lisbon calls on youth to be 'teachers of hope'
lisbon – pope francis kicked off the second day of his august 2-6 visit to lisbon meeting with catholic university students, telling them to...
Elise Ann Allen
Pope offers comfort to Portuguese church facing secularisation in aftermath of abuse scandal
lisbon – in the wake of a devastating clerical sexual abuse scandal in a country already buffeted by secularisation and increasing pluralism...
Elise Ann Allen
En Vacances en Normandie
the region has a wealth of former monastic buildings, some in ruins but some whose churches still survive. the history of the duchy of norm-...
Michael Hodges
Feast and fast: an August meal
august – the month of our blessed lady’s assumption, but also the month of les grandes vacances! so here is an idea recently tested in that ...
Sam Marsden
Saved by the Bible
a royal visit to a bookbindery, whose fortunes have been turned around. june 27 was a momentous day for a small bookbinding factory on an&nb...
Charlotte Metcalf
Painted Love in Bath, Somerset
the marriage portraits at an exhibition in bath not only capture a likeness, but contain much symbolism, says katherine cole . walk through ...
Katherine Cole
Gwen John gives room for reflection
gwen john comes into her own at this excellent show at pallant house, finds gertrude clark . gwen john is invariably – and inevitably – desc...
Gertrude Clarke
The Miracle Club: reviewed by Julia Hamilton
julia hamilton finds this film set in 1960s ireland baffling and dissatisfying. reconciliation is a tough gig, is the message of the miracle...
Julia Hamilton
Summer reading at the Catholic Herald
the herald’s guide to which books to pack when heading off for the summer. whether they’re packing their passports or just looking forward t...
The Catholic Herald
South of the River at Southwark Cathedral
did you know that the cathedral of the archbishop of southwark, who has jurisdiction over the part of greater london which lies south of the...
Serenhedd James
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