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A Guide to John Henry Newman: His Life and Thought, edited by Juan R Vélez
a guide to john henry newman: his life and thought juan r vélez (ed) catholic university of america press,$75, 448 pages just when you thoug...
Catherine Maybanks
Feast and Fast: Dominican friar offers his recipe whilst delighting in the scents and tastes he associates with Holy Week
holy week and easter have been at the heart of my growth in the faith. from my late teenage years as a progressively more arch and spiky ang...
Albert Robertson OP
The Catholic churches of Surrey
surrey is a small and hilly county within easy reach of london. in the mid-18th century, the writer arthur young condemned its communication...
Michael Hodges
Byrd is the word: The old faith of England is this year’s focus of The Sixteen
the old faith of england is this year’s focus of the sixteen, finds serenhedd james . a wise, sharp-eyed owl peers out from the programme of...
Serenhedd James
Music for the Masses: Dave Brubeck and Catholicism
benjamin ivry looks at the ways the us jazz composer dave brubeck explored catholicism through his music in his 60-year career. the american...
Benjamin Ivry
Beauty in the eye of the beholder: The Ugly Duchess in the National Gallery
you know the feeling: you meet someone out of context, know you know them, but you can’t quite place who they are or where they’re from. i d...
Helen Robinson
The successes, and failures, of Pope Francis
just over 10 years ago, jorge mario bergoglio stood on the balcony of st peter’s and said simply to the crowd, “buona sera”. it was the begi...
The Catholic Herald
NHS pays £10K compensation to chaplain sacked after upholding Catholic marriage teaching
a london nhs trust has settled a discrimination case with a catholic chaplain who was ousted for answering questions from a patient on a psy...
Simon Caldwell
Nashville massacre of Christians shows the sexual revolution is turning more violent
the recent shooting in nashville, tennessee, a desperate enough tragedy in its own terms, is provoking a wider cultural assault that i...
Gavin Ashenden
Jordan Peterson, politics, and Christian conversion
the twitter account of pope francis is almost certainly run by well-meaning officials who post well-meaning tweets in his name, intended to ...
Gavin Ashenden
After Impressionism: encountering my inner Philistine at London's National Gallery
le singe est dans l’arbre. the state visit to france was cancelled in the wake of protests at the very idea - quelle horreur - that the fren...
Serenhedd James
The empty tomb of the risen Lord?
there are two distinct sets of stories in the gospels about the resurrection of jesus. the one set, about which i wrote last year, concern t...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP
Abuse expert leaves Vatican commission for protection of minors, citing concerns
jesuit father hans zollner, an internationally-renowned expert in protecting children and vulnerable adults from clerical sex abuse, has res...
Hannah Brockhaus
Bishop Erik Varden and Kim Samuel on community and belonging in the post-COVID world
i cannot now remember the number of times that i have sat in the sheldonian theatre in oxford, wearing an academic gown of either red or bla...
Serenhedd James
An American revisits London as a Catholic
in 1841, john henry newman wrote to a catholic acquaintance: “i do not fear that you will succeed among us; you will not supplant our church...
Andrew Petiprin
Irish PM must be commended for saying forced secularisation of Catholic schools is wrong
in a recent parliamentary questions session in ireland , taoiseach (prime minister) leo varadkar provided a surprisingly frank and sensible ...
Dubhaltach O Reachtnin
Natural Family Planning: it's time the Church shared its best kept secret
the pill made headlines last week when researchers from the university of oxford concluded that the use of progesterone-only contraceptive p...
Madeleine Teahan
A woman's place? Better catechesis needed as Cambridge conference discusses women's ordination
as the margaret beaufort institute in cambridge hosts a new conference on women and the diaconate, some still say there is enough evidence i...
Dr Caroline Farey
Adam Dant tours the artistic riches of Florence
if the medici had their way, today’s easter faithful might be processing not in the direction of jerusalem or to st peter’s basilica in rome...
Adam Dant
How to properly encounter beauty, truth and goodness
easter monday will be my 40th birthday. inevitably, reaching such milestones is liable to induce a certain amount of reflection on what one ...
Niall Gooch
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