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Ian Ker at 80
fr ian ker turned 80 at the end of august. in the course of a celebratory dinner at the oxford & cambridge club, he was presented with a...
Paul Shrimpton
Pope renews warnings of nuclear war as fighting escalates in Ukraine
pope francis has renewed his appeal for peace in ukraine and has warned the world again of the danger of the conflict escalating into a nucl...
Simon Caldwell
On discipleship
october is not an especially exciting month liturgically: we have an uninterrupted run of ordinary sundays, with readings from chapters 17 t...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP
Poulenc’s glorious surrealism
that the composer francis poulenc was devoutly catholic is signalled by his output of choral works so fervent they force you to your knees: ...
Michael White
The Scoles family: a Catholic architectural dynasty
joseph john scoles (1798-1863) was born in london, the son of a catholic joiner. he was educated at baddesley green and in 1812 apprenticed ...
Michael Hodges
Speaking out for common sense
a few weeks ago i took my daughters (aged 2 and 3) to tate britain to look at some art, but also to try out the two children’s play areas wh...
Olenka Hamilton
Listening to the laity can only help the Church
the american church has spoken. to put it another way, the local and diocesan responses in the us to the pope’s call for a global synod have...
The Catholic Herald
Ukraine will keep fighting the good fight
the catholic principles of the just war are as valid today as ever they were, so it was heartening that the pope has reiterated their import...
The Catholic Herald
Inclusion and diversity the mandate for King Charles
the outpouring of gratitude and grief at the death of the queen was an occasion of rare unity in britain. the people who came to pay their r...
The Catholic Herald
Irish Human Rights Commission has forgotten about the right to free speech
last week, the irish human rights and equality commission (ihrec) announced its submission on the general scheme of the health (termination ...
Dubhaltach O Reachtnin
Trouble ahead? The Irish Synodal Pathway leads to Rome
it is more than likely that the catholic church’s synod in rome – called by pope francis and set to take place in october – is going to end ...
Laura Perrins
Rome cannot ignore the prosecution of Cardinal Zen
this month sees the trial in hong kong of cardinal joseph zen. he and four defendants face charges of failing properly to register a fund (n...
The Catholic Herald
The problem with God
countless thoughtful, compassionate people cite high levels of undeserved suffering as a basic obstacle to belief in a benign creator. anyon...
Rupert Shortt
Merely Catholic with Simon Caldwell: The Beast of Bethulia Park
dr gavin ashenden talks to the journalist simon caldwell about his debut novel, the beast of bethulia park, in this 21st episode of merely c...
The Catholic Herald
The eternal significance of a Catholic education
in this month’s issue, we publish our first survey of all independent catholic schools in great britain. the survey shows the diversity and ...
The Catholic Herald
Police arrest Catholic mother over accusations of Twitter gender abuse
police in surrey have swooped on the home of a catholic mother-of-five after she was accused of posting “malicious” online messages about “g...
Simon Caldwell
Terrorists cut throats of Christians in raid on mission, Mozambique bishop reveals
a bishop in mozambique has revealed that extremists disguised in military uniform gathered a crowd of people together, before separating the...
Staff Reporter
A Garland for the Queen
the magnitude of queen elizabeth ii’s service to the united kingdom, the commonwealth and the world remains both incalculable and indescriba...
John Studzinski
Not to praise, but to bury
of all the events to mark the destruction of st benet’s hall in oxford, one might have thought that the optimistically-titled mass in “thank...
Joe Lord
Pilgrims progress to Santiago
our tabard inn was la rosa negra café. not exactly a 14th-century inn on the thames in southwark, but a neighbourhood bar in vigo serving al...
William Cash
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