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Eyes on the East: Keeping Christmas with the Ukrainian Catholic Church
as the three wise men make their way home in the latin rite, many eastern christians will only just be ending the fast before the nativity. ...
Fr Mark Woodruff
The Epiphany: Rise and shine
english-speakers call it "the epiphany", but the germans say heilige drei könige : the three holy kings. and yet st matthew doesn’t tell us ...
Mgr Andrew Burnham
On the Twelfth Day of Christmas: A Prayer to the Three Kings
the end of the christmas octave brings us to epiphany eve: so end our special twelve-days features, which we hope you have enjoyed. for all ...
Evelyn Waugh
In St Peter's Square: Notebook from Rome
the dome of st peter’s was shrouded in mist for the funeral of pope benedict, with the cupola and the cross disappearing behind the figures ...
Melanie McDonagh
On the eve of Pope Benedict's funeral: Notebook from Rome
photo: vatican media the crowds are quieter this time. by comparison with the enormous throng of people – most of them poles – who came to s...
Melanie McDonagh
Curbs on Traditional Latin Mass 'broke Pope Benedict’s heart'
new curbs on the traditional latin mass “broke pope benedict’s heart”, according to his private secretary. archbishop georg gänswein, the cl...
Simon Caldwell
World leaders bid farewell to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
viktor orbán was among world leaders to visit st peter’s basilica in rome on tuesday, where he paid his respe cts to pope emeritus benedict ...
Diana Montagna
Benedict XVI and my vocation to the priesthood
no matter how inevitable or indeed no matter how unexpected, death has a powerful way of gripping the heart and bringing the mind into sharp...
Fr Paschal Uche
The Harpole Treasure gives us a glimpse into Anglo-Saxon England’s great women of faith
archaeologists excavating ahead of a housing development at harpole, near northampton, have discovered an astonishing 7th-century burial. ac...
Francis Young
What the Book of Jonah teaches us about God’s compassion
the question came in a deceptively simple guise: “what is your favourite scriptural text?” normally the answer would be: “the one i am worki...
Fr Nicholas King SJ
Quarr Abbey monk on the meaning of identity
since time immemorial, pilgrims have been travelling to islands to meet holy men and women, and so it was that i found myself heading for qu...
Mark Jenkins
How will Pope Francis mark this year's significant anniversaries?
pope francis will face many challenges in 2023 – but it’s a year that also happens to be filled with significant anniversaries, including th...
Diana Montagna
The meaning of Matthew
we are back to year a in the lectionary, which means that for most of the year we shall be reading from st matthew’s gospel on sundays. the ...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP
New book on forgiveness through literature gives Catholics much to ponder
allow me to indulge in a public confession: of all the tenets of catholicism, the one i struggle with the most is forgiveness. we are called...
Nick Ripatrazone
Believing in a better Britten
sometimes christianity creeps into opera in unwelcome ways. a notorious example is benjamin britten’s rape of lucretia which tells the ancie...
Michael White
Feasting does not have to be lavish to be festal
preparation is crucial to celebrating christmas well. but so often the kind of preparation most people mean only really adds pressure, and p...
Albert Robertson OP
Pasta: la vista - a History of the Italian food staple
on 1 april 1957, the bbc current affairs programme panorama presented a three-minute documentary item showing a swiss family, in t...
Jeremy Haselock
Benedict XVI: a teacher for the whole world
it was the morning of 19 april 2005, and i was in north carolina. i was a senior at duke divinity school and was in duke chapel with my spir...
Matthew Olver
The shape-shifting nature of treason
‘hanged, drawn, quar- tered, beheaded, shot – even boiled…” from its outset, the national archive’s exhibition treason: people, power and pl...
Philip Sidney
Heritage: A History of How We Conserve Our Past, by James Stourton
heritage: a history of how we conserve our past james stourton head of zeus, £40, 496 pages james stourton chooses a quotation on the theme ...
William Cash
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