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Pope's white Lamborghini up for raffle; winner gets trip to Rome
a custom-built 2018 lamborghini huracan coupe autographed by pope francis is back on the block, but, this time with an online fundraising pl...
Carol Glatz
Escaping the loneliness of modern art
friar alejandro arias is a 22-year-old conventual franciscan who is in formation to be a franciscan brother. originally from colombia, friar...
Jeff Cimmino
The most startling gesture on an opera stage in years
benjamin britten’s war requiem was composed for the opening of the new coventry cathedral in 1963, as a choral work to be performed in conce...
Michael White
The Brothers who would not be moved
with the beatification of the seven trappist monks of tibhirine (and 11 other male and female religious killed during the civil war that rag...
Will Gore
Houston, we have a problem
on november 28, district attorney brett ligon of montgomery county, texas, led the raid on the chancery of cardinal daniel dinardo of housto...
Jordan Bloom
Letters & emails
why st john vianney’s heart matters sir – i can imagine an atheist reader scoffing if he stumbled on michael warren davis’s account of the t...
The Catholic Herald
The leader who signed his own death warrant
in the late autumn of 1921, michael collins, arthur griffith and their team of four others travelled to london to engage in talks with the b...
Mary Kenny
Many comedians have a Catholic background - and no wonder
back when the united states was primarily dominated – both in numbers and in culture – by the wasps, a strange paradox emerged which has rem...
Charles Coulombe
Why they shouted ‘Heil Hitler’
in a village in poland in 1942 you, as a member of a company of german soldiers, are raising your rifle at a crowd of women, children and th...
Quentin de la Bedoyere
Cardinal Dulles was a quintessentially American thinker
a quarter of a century of friendship with cardinal avery dulles, sj, who died 10 years ago this month, left me with many happy memories. two...
George Weigel
The values that defined Bush 41
george herbert walker bush – the 41st us president – never wrote a post-presidential memoir. his son, george w bush – the 43rd president – g...
Fr Raymond de Souza
Newman's greatest achievement: putting the personal over the abstract
what were shakespeare’s greatest play and leonardo’s greatest painting? the very questioning is contentious and sparks verbal wars, most vio...
Fr George Rutler
Diary
i have always fancied myself as a natural diplomat who might have missed my true calling in life. until, that is, i came head to head with m...
Madeleine Teahan
Last orders? Spain's vanishing monasteries
catholics in spain have voiced alarm at the rapid decline of monastic life in the country, despite reassurances from church leaders. “we are...
Jonathan Luxmoore
The 'gay network' claims which reach far beyond Connecticut
the day after the raid on sante fe, the rector of holy apostles college and seminary in the archdiocese of hartford came forward to discuss ...
Michael Warren Davis
The US Church's $3bn question
on the same day that law enforcement raided the chancery of the archdiocese of galveston-houston, the attorney general of new mexico execute...
Michael Warren Davis
The 'growing anxiety' of Scottish pro-lifers
"when i was growing up,” says james bundy, “i saw scotland as a tolerant country where the vast majority of people feel comfortable to share...
Dan Hitchens
Where now for Catholic Voices?
in december 2009, two friends sat in a pub and sighed about the difficulty of defending the church. austen ivereigh and jack valero had just...
Dan Hitchens
Reviving the ‘C9’
In 2013, the cardinals seemed fresh and eager to help. Today, they look weary
The Catholic Herald
December 7, 2018
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