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Are you self-serving?
‘excuse me, but are you self-serving?” the question took me by surprise, and i could only apologetically ask my interlocutor to repeat it fr...
Serenhedd James
Aid to the Church in Need gives £830,000 in emergency money to war-torn Ukraine
“thanks to the help of the world, ukraine resists, and we believe it will survive. here we have been helping the displaced, supplying air-ra...
John Newton
The material and spiritual vision of Marshall McLuhan
‘i have never been an optimist or a pessimist. i’m an apocalyptic only,” marshall mcluhan said during a 1977 interview. “apocalypse is not g...
Nick Ripatrazone
Female clergy make unity an impossibility
there was a period after the anglican-roman catholic international commission agreement on ministry and ordination had been published – even...
Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali
The problem with ‘Pills by Post’
on 31 january 2022, the times reported that leading doctors were warning of “illegal abortions danger”. their concern was that regulations i...
Sir Stephen Stewart
Reading through the Lenten desert
graham greene’s novel, the heart of the matter, begins with an aphorism from charles péguy: “le pécheur est au coeur même chrétienté.... nul...
Ken Craycraft
Expanding the Orthodox empire
in 2016, i happened to be in karyes, capital of the monastic republic of mount athos, when vladimir putin swept into the small hilltop in a ...
Mark Jenkins
To follow thee more nearly: being drawn in to the road to Our Lord’s Crucifixion
during lent many of us will pray the 14 stations of the cross, especially on good friday. they are a popular devotion taking us from pontius...
Patrick van der Vorst
The unusual interest of Norfolk’s Catholic Churches
norfolk was known in the middle ages for its great holiness, with streams of pilgrims making their way in particular to bromholm to venerate...
Michael Hodges
Pope ends impasse over Order of Malta
pope francis has directly intervened to end an impasse between the vatican and the sovereign military order of malta over controversial refo...
Simon Caldwell
Pope pleads for Church to dedicate Ash Wednesday as day of fasting and prayer for peace in Ukraine
pope francis has renewed his appeal for the entire catholic church to dedicate ash wednesday as a day of prayer and fasting for peace in ukr...
Simon Caldwell
Rescusants revisited
an aristocratic catholic friend once told me that his father would refer to a co-religionist landowner as “cousin x”, despite the family con...
Jeremy Musson
Pope and circumstance
on saturday 8 october, the parliament choir have been invited to perform elgar’s the dream of gerontius in san paolo fuori le mura, the papa...
Lord German
Go vegan for Lent
lent, the time of fast and abstinence before easter, is based on christ’s time in the wilderness, described in the first chapter of mark’s g...
Gertrude Clarke
An entertaining masterpiece that reveals sides of an extraordinary woman never before seen
maria theresa: the habsburg empress in her time barbara stollberg-rilinger, translated by robert savage princeton university press, £35, 110...
AN Wilson
The rocks of ages on which British mysticism is built
stonehenge is one of the most famous monuments in the world. the outline of the trilithons, the great gate-like constructions that form its ...
Rosemary Hill
Diary: I am glad to hold a "synodal process"
there can’t have been many clergy filled with unrestrained enthusiasm and christian joy when told of the requirement to hold a “synodal proc...
Fr Mark Vickers
On Pilgrimage with Sir Bill Cash
where would you go? i would go to much wenlock and wenlock abbey because it is the site of saint milburga, who was an eighth-century a...
The Catholic Herald
Too much to Handel
what’s the difference between oratorio and opera?” is a tricky question. for the most part, oratorios are spiritual, reflective works perfor...
Michael White
Keeping the past alive
i have been reading the golden apple of samarkand by lala wilbraham, a wonderful new book which has evaded the reviewers, perhaps because it...
Olenka Hamilton
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