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Heretic of the week: Joseph Smith
joseph smith (1807-1844) was born in sharon, vermont; by the time he was 12, his family had joined the migration of new englanders into upst...
Charles Coulombe
Prize crossword 0581
cryptic across 7 cult member gets two boys to join up (8) 8 writing’s on the wall for a captain in retreat (4) 9 little time to get to grips...
Alun Evans
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week iii sunday, february 24 : seventh sunday in ordinary time 1 sm 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-23; ps 103; 1 cor 15:45...
The Catholic Herald
How to… Read Scripture
in dei verbum, the council fathers pointed out that there are many ways to encounter scripture, including in the liturgy. as for reading, th...
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The test of the summit: will whistleblowers be protected?
as the old adage goes, you don’t fatten a pig by weighing it. nor do you solve an abuse crisis simply by having summits to discuss it. it is...
Fr Dominic Allain
St Thérèse understood the spirit of Sexagesima
in the traditional roman calendar this sunday is called sexagesima, latin for the “sixtieth” day before easter. these three purple-draped su...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Forgiveness is more than a strategy
seventh sunday of the year 1 sm 26: 2,7-9,12-13 & 22-33; 1 cor 15:45-49; lk 6:27-38 (year c) ‘the lord is compassion and love, slow to a...
Bishop David McGough
Churchill, the Mosleys and the Tridentine Rite
no longer with us by naim attallah, quartet, 823pp, £30/$33 it was diana mosley, as enchanting in her person as her politics were bewilderin...
David Platzer
A masterpiece that triumphs over anything that's done to it
lucky readers of this publication won’t remember how the 1970s looked; but with its bad hair, flared jeans and depressing architecture, it w...
Michael White
Why Civilisation has lasted 50 years
"what is civilisation?” an erudite english gentleman asks the camera. “i don’t know … but i think i can recognise it when i see it.” and the...
Ed West
Letters & emails
newman’s message to a church in crisis sir – the news that blessed john henry newman is to be canonised is wonderful. what that holy man wou...
The Catholic Herald
Shamima Begum's son didn't choose ISIS
the woman selling daily papers at the supermarket pointed to a picture of shamima begum, the “jihadi bride” who now wants to return to brita...
Mary Kenny
Two very different ways of fighting communism
last week, the cause of cardinal józsef mindszenty of hungary (1892-1975) took a major step forward: pope francis declared mindszenty venera...
Marc Roscoe Loustau
Newman's most savage critic was a herald of the sexual revolution
as the catholic church proceeds to declare john henry newman a saint, some will try to present him as a queer icon. andrew sullivan has alre...
Matthew Schmitz
A culture of condemnation has replaced Christian forgiveness
what do liam neeson and ralph northam, the democratic governor of virginia, have in common? they are both being punished and reviled for act...
Ann Widdecombe
Behind the abuse crisis, a crisis of governance
the sexual abuse summit’s second full day will be february 22, feast of the chair of st peter, the liturgical commemoration of the petrine o...
Fr Raymond de Souza
How to become a Doctor of the Church
anyone aspiring to become a doctor of the church requires an impressive cv. the official criteria are a major contribution to christian thou...
Jonathan Wright
Newman should be the next Doctor of the Church
canonisations vary greatly in their significance. the canonisation of mother teresa of calcutta, who devoted her life to the care of the dyi...
Fr Ian Ker
Susan Boyle, lunchtime Mass and the Dramatists Club: a week in theatreland
ten years ago i devised a stage musical based on the film priscilla queen of the desert . we developed the script in a workshop in melbourne...
Allan Scott
Think German Catholicism is in decline? Look at the latest figures on Protestantism
in germany, the crucible of the reformation 500 years ago, the country’s former protestant majority now makes up less than a third of the po...
Jon Anderson
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