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Today's Conservative Party is no place for Catholics
the catholics in the conservative party group hosted a formal launch event in the houses of parliament last week. the group says it aims to ...
Laura Perrins
The First Book of the Bible has everything
the first bit of the torah i translated was the story of noah. the dramatic events of the flood and all the heroic moments of the making of ...
robert rinder
Why we need monks back in the classroom
st benedict, contemplation and the search for knowledge should be the bedrock of a 21st-century catholic education, says mark jenkins the 17...
Mark Jenkins
List: Pope Benedict XVI's best quotes
on the petrine ministry at the beginning of his ministry in the church of rome which peter bathed in his blood, peter’s current successor ta...
The Catholic Herald
In the presence of the Angels: Benedict XVI's theology of Church music
liturgy is central to the legacy of pope benedict xvi – and music was central to his vision of liturgical renewal. in an address to the eigh...
Sara Pecknold
'Freedom is ever new': The legacy of Benedict XVI’s visit to the United States endures
in a homily on april 19, 2008, pope benedict xvi noted the st patrick cathedral’s beautiful stained-glass windows, which “flood the interior...
Fr Carter Griffin
Interview: Benedict XVI's abiding inspiration is ‘the gentle force of Catholic thought’
diane montagna interviews an italian priest and academic who knew pope benedict what is pope benedict xvi’s legacy? why was he able to inspi...
Diana Montagna
Benedict XVI's care for catechism and catechists
nobody can compare with joseph ratzinger, both as cardinal and pope, for his hawk-like surveillance of and attention towards formation of th...
Dr Caroline Farey
Defying Hitler: the Faith of the White Rose circle
on february 22, 1943 three munich university students were executed by the nazis. their “crime” had been their involvement in a resistance c...
Alexandra Lloyd
Galileo is not the atheists’ posterboy
in our generation the myth that faith and science are incompatible – meaning that no intelligent person should believe in god – has been pus...
Gavin Ashenden
Christians can believe in miracles
on february 11 the church keeps the feast of our lady of lourdes, commemorating the day in 1858 when the 14-year-old bernadette soubirous ha...
Fr Robert Verrill OP
‘His heart beat with the love of Christ’
rome and the world bid farewell to cardinal george pell, as close to a thousand mourners from across the globe, including cardinals and arch...
Diana Montagna
Encountering two real-life Vicar of Dibleys – am I a religious snob?
about a year ago i made the rather (in retrospect) strange decision to put my name forward to become a local community councillor. it’s a lo...
Olenka Hamilton
The hope of the Church: Benedict XVI and the path to recovery
in 1969, while he was a professor of theology at the university of regensburg, fr joseph ratzinger gave a radio address in germany, asking “...
Ken Craycraft
The Incarnation and the Crucifixion are woven together at Candlemas
as it is often noted, christmas seems to begin earlier and earlier every year: certain newspapers can be almost guaranteed to have a letter ...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP
When Anglican architects built Catholic churches
as a general rule in the 19th century, and to a slightly lesser extent afterwards, anglican churches tended to be built by anglican architec...
Michael Hodges
The American playwright Christopher Durang may help us understand
the news that the american catholic playwright christopher durang has been diagnosed with aphasia and is retiring from theatrical activity m...
Benjamin Ivry
Is it time to set up a suitable sanctuary for our few remaining relics?
the queues for the relics of st bernadette last autumn were somewhat shorter than for the earthly remains of queen elizabeth ii. the impress...
Lucien de Guise
The onset of Lent calls for some flexibility in the kitchen
there is a fashion in the secular world for something called “dry january”. just 31 days without alcohol, in part to make up for all the exc...
Sam Marsden
Patrick Kavanagh: Poet in the twilight
‘every old man i see / in october-coloured weather / seems to say to me: ‘i was once your father’.” wake forest university press – as part o...
Nick Ripatrazone
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