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Hollywood must rediscover the art of storytelling
there is more to the medium than the message. the woman king is a case in point it’s a peculiar sign of our times that filmmakers feel ...
Ferdie Rous
The Synod will continue until Synodality improves
are catholics going to be asked the same questions until they produce the right answers, wonders hugh somerville knapman osb on 16 october, ...
Fr Hugh Somerville-Knapman
The true message of Vatican II
as a young catholic in the 1970s i was repeatedly told that the second vatican council was at best a tragic mistake fuelled by a naïve enthu...
Joanna Bogle
Is the Synodal Way a hostile take-over of the Church?
of all the voices raised in warning about an imminent coup threatening the catholic church, former head of the congregation for the doctrine...
Gavin Ashenden
Did anyone outside the church really care about Vatican II?
last week saw the celebration of the feast of st john xxiii as well as the anniversary of the opening of the second vatican council, which h...
Karl Gustel Warnberg
Pope extends Synod on Synodality to 2024
pope francis has announced that the synod on synodality will be extended to 2024. speaking in his angelus address on sunday, the pope shared...
Courtney Mares
Metropolitan Kallistos: Orthodoxy’s first global-age teacher
metropolitan kallistos of diokleia was the eastern orthodox church’s most familiar voice in the english-speaking world for six decades. his ...
Fr Mark Woodruff
Pope's Order of Malta reforms 'illegal' under UK charity law, says senior knight
the pope’s reforms of the order of malta are illegal under uk law and has placed the organisation on a collision course with the charity com...
Simon Caldwell
Words and deeds
could the vatican, under pius xii, have done more to condemn and prevent nazi atrocities, especially the holocaust? that question has been t...
Niall Gooch
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
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