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Chapter & verse: The kitchen-table genius of a Catholic poet

allan massie reflects on the life and work of the orkney poet george mackay brown, who saw holiness in the natural world george mackay brown...

Allan Massie

Let’s not pretend Catholic life is easy

sometimes i feel like a bit of a fraud. i never intended to become a public catholic: i converted to catholicism expecting it to fix me on t...

Tim Stanley

Mind the pastoral gap

“you dodged it,” i smiled at my priest as the congregation was filing past him after mass, and he grinned, knowing what i meant. the theme o...

Ann Widdecombe

Mankind’s troubling new frontiers

most people, i believe, want to be kind, want to be tolerant, and want, indeed, to follow the christian precept of “love thy neighbour”. one...

Mary Kenny

Brazil’s great rift

its politics used to be defined by the cold war. today, the landscape is one of religious divisions and resurgent populism brazil’s economic...

Jon Anderson

Comments of the week

letters should include a genuine postal or email address, phone number and the style or title of the writer. email: letters@catholicherald.c...

The Catholic Herald

Arts essay: Ireland’s farewell to a world of beauty

where will my countrymen find transcendence now, asks michael duggan in the middle of the last century, whenever they needed to experience t...

Michael Duggan

Music: Spending too long in the trenches

in the coming weeks there will be no escape from world war i commemorations. in the concert hall, onstage and in exhibition spaces we’ll be ...

Michael White

Film: An elusive figure in the line of fire

under the wire is a documentary about the war correspondent marie colvin. it is also, just as much, a film about her photographer colleague ...

KV Turley

The year couples left the Church ‘on tiptoe’

michael duggan steps into a time machine that takes him back to humanae vitae the schism of ‘68 edited by alana harris, palgrave, 400pp, £69...

Michael Duggan

Treating reality like a playground

david beer on the new class who have hacked the media the death of the gods by carl miller, heinemann, 400pp, £20 it’s tempting to think of ...

David Beer

No one can tell how a child will grieve

children and loss by sue mcdermott, redemptorist publications, 65pp, £4.95 this is an excellent booklet, scripted by an author who has more ...

Fr Denis Blackledge SJ

Word this week

the 29th sunday of the year is 53:10-11; heb 4:14-16; mk 10:35-45 (year b) throughout the world this sunday is kept as world mission day. we...

Bishop David McGough

Omnium Gatherum

the collect, ancient in origin, for this 29th ordinary sunday in the novus ordo , is prayed in the extraordinary form on sunday after ascens...

Fr John Zuhlsdorf

Mass readings

ordinary form divine office week i sunday, october 21: the 29th sunday of the year is 53:10-11; ps 33; heb 4:14-16; mk 10:35-45 monday, octo...

The Catholic Herald

Prize crossword 0564

cryptic across 1 california’s (whichever way you look), north america’s ‘promised land’ (6) 4 dreadfully-sounding irish county (6) 8 easterl...

Alun Evans

Matthew Walther: The consoling gloom of Paul VI

i have no doubt that giovanni battista enrico antonio maria montini currenly enjoys the beatific vision for the very simple reason that i ha...

Matthew Walther

Suicide and the soul

more than 50 years ago, the american psychologist james hillman wrote a book entitled suicide and the soul . it was intended for therapists ...

Fr Ronald Rolheiser

The Argentine Church must not be cowed by violent feminist attacks

The Church must be courageous in proclaiming the sanctity of life

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

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