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Church and state's uneasy relationship
the coercive power of the state is found from the start of the story of our salvation; it’s in the nativity story itself and the feasts that...
Piers Paul Read
The Irish Church: saints and sinners
"writers are often loners; journalists are sociable.” so says mary kenny, but in self-identifying as gregarious journalist rather than intro...
Dr Roy Foster
All in the best possible taste
catholica: the visual culture of catholicism suzanna ivanič thames & hudson, £25, 256 pages the visual has always held a special place i...
Miles Pattenden
Lady Susan Hussey was no threat to Ngozi Fulani
about 6 months ago i was asked by my nigerian friend father m if i would take part in an online conversation about faith in the public squar...
Katherine Bennett
Census 2021 and Newman's 'age of infidelity'
christians are now well into the season of advent, the time of preparation for christmas, the feast of the nativity of jesus christ. this wa...
Simon Caldwell
The kingdom of heaven is at hand: spending Advent well
“may the lord be in your heart and help you to confess your sins with true sorrow.” what prevents us from doing that? we won’t confess our s...
Fr Mark Vickers
On Pilgrimage With: Julian Fellowes
where would you go? i have long cherished a near-obsessive desire to see petra, the rose-red city half as old as time. last month, i am happ...
The Catholic Herald
Scion of distinguished recusant family
sir simon towneley died on 11 november, aged 100. he was the first catholic to be lord lieutenant of lancashire, in which office he served f...
The Catholic Herald
Priest who opened Newman up to the world
fr ian turnbull ker, the leading scholar on the life and work of st john henry newman, died on 5 november. a brilliant writer and biographer...
The Catholic Herald
God with us
the prophecy of isaiah 7 must be one of the most famous in the old testament. “the maiden is with child, and will soon give birth to a son w...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP
Music on the Moors
it’s hard to see these days, but scratched into a wall at exeter cathedral is the name of a composer who was born four centuries ago this ye...
Michael White
Catholic Herefordshire
unlike its neighbours of shropshire to the north and worcestershire to the east, herefordshire was not richly endowed with monastic establis...
Michael Hodges
The pleasures of dissonant reading
i sat on a mower in the middle of a two-acre field. paths of light and dark criss-crossed the grass. bees darted in and out of the chaff. in...
Nick Ripatrazone
Christmas reading 2022
antonia fraser someone once said, channelling shakespeare’s hamlet: “there’s nothing good nor bad, but christmas makes it worse.” i can only...
The Catholic Herald
A forgotten convert
the life of thomas william allies 1813-1903: “a soul temper’d with fire” michael trott gracewing, £25, 480 pages thomas allies died aged 90 ...
Robin Ward
Aquinas' teacher finally gets his due
albertus magnus and the world of nature irven m resnick & kenneth f kitchell jr chicago university press, £16.95, 224 pages one standard...
Albert Robertson OP
The smell of old books
remainders of the day shaun bythell profile, £16.99, 377 pages once upon a tome oliver darkshire bantam press, £14.99, 244 pages graham gree...
Alexander Larman
Helping homeless young people
the past three years have been tough for many in the uk. coronavirus, and most recently the economic downturn and the dramatic rise in the c...
Hugh Kerr
Christians still attacked and killed for the Faith
“my god, it is hard to be chained and receive blows but i live this moment as you present it to me.” such was the prayer of sister gloria ce...
John Pontifex
GK Chesterton's 'enjoyable nightmare' before Christmas
christmas is for many of us a nightmare: relatives, trying not to buy them the same present again, sticking to a budget, and only going beyo...
Daniel Frampton
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