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Why 'A Dance to the Music of Time' features little Catholicism but a lot of mumbo-jumbo
for many, myself among them, evelyn waugh, graham greene and anthony powell were the outstanding english novelists of the middle decades of ...
Allan Massie
How London greeted Handel’s astonishing gifts
handel in london by jane glover, macmillan, 448pp, £25, $29.95 to begin on a carping note, jane glover’s subtitle, the making of a genius, s...
Robert Gray
The suffering poet who sighed for lost Edens
the letters of sylvia plath: volume ii edited by peter steinberg and karen krull, faber and faber, 1,025pp, £35/$35 since her suicide in the...
Ian Thomson
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week ii sunday, november 25: our lord jesus christ, universal king dn 7:13-14; ps 93; rv 1:5-8; jn 18:33b-3...
The Catholic Herald
Diary of a city priest
st james’s, spanish place, is definitely my favourite church in london. its elegant vaults are reminiscent of a french gothic cathedral. its...
Fr Dominic Allain
How to.... Help the Holy Souls
the souls in purgatory are our brothers and sisters, and there are several simple ways we can help to lessen their sufferings and speed them...
The Catholic Herald
The scandal of China’s political bishop
cardinal joseph zen, emeritus of hong kong, was in rome earlier this month to hand-deliver a letter to pope francis about the escalating per...
Fr Raymond de Souza
Prize crossword 0569
cryptic across 5 rum’s a precious sea throwback, totally (8) 7 register with hq, say? (4) 9 perhaps a converted preacher helped paul in colo...
Alun Evans
Heretic of the week
nestorius (386-450) was born in germanicia in the roman province of syria – now kahramanmaraş, in turkey. he became a monk in a monastery in...
Charles Coulombe
Notes on a scandal
Last week, the Vatican dramatically blocked the US bishops’ proposals to tackle the crisis. What happens next?
Michael Warren Davis and Damian Thompson
A new journal will challenge academic groupthink - and devotees of free speech
The Journal of Controversial Ideas will offend progressives. But let's remember that controversy is not valuable in and of itself
Ben Sixsmith
Where piety and critical thinking meet
i live on both sides of a border. not a geographical one, but one which is often a dividing line between two groups. i was raised a conserva...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
The monsignor who lived at a gentlemen's club
i have dinner at the travellers club in london’s pall mall with an author who has written widely on both the church of england and the royal...
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
The legalisation of abortion may force a bishop to abdicate as prince
one of europe’s strangest church-state relationships may soon come to an end if a catholic bishop is forced to abdicate as co-prince of ando...
Jonathan Luxmoore
Even in exile, Syriac Orthodox Christians remain divided
it is cold and gloomy when i ask one of the syriac orthodox youths in the swedish city of södertälje to describe to me what the past year ha...
Filipe D'Avillez
The broadcaster ruffling feathers at home and abroad
love him or hate him – and opinion is strikingly divided on that point – raymond arroyo (pictured) is the king of the catholic airwaves. lay...
Michael Warren Davis
Knight falls: The Order of Malta expels the author of 'The Dictator Pope'
when henry sire published his book the dictator pope last year, he knew it could bring reprisals. indeed, it was originally published pseudo...
Dan Hitchens
Archbishop Scicluna’s return to the Vatican is heartening news
the news that pope francis has appointed the 59-year-old archbishop charles scicluna of malta to the position of adjunct secretary at the co...
Christopher R. Altieri
World news
paradise, united states pope francis prays for victims of wildfires addressing pilgrims in st peter’s square on sunday, pope francis prayed ...
Staff writers
Week in review
the big story of the past seven days ✣ vatican intervenes at us bishops’ assembly what happened? late afternoon on sunday, the day before us...
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