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What’s the problem with medieval mysticism?

rebekah lamb looks back to the days when the virgin mary would chastise bishops mary and the art of prayer by rachel fulton brown, columbia,...

Rebekah Lamb

Biblical films get the academic treatment

matt thorne finds some insight amid the waffle t&t clark companion to the bible and film edited by richard walsh, bloomsbury/t&t cla...

Matt Thorne

A fab Porgy and Bess – but it’s hardly opera

when george gershwin wrote porgy and bess, he believed himself to be writing an opera – and so by general acceptance he was, although its re...

Michael White

The beautiful order of the Anglo-Saxons

there are more ancient bibles at anglo-saxon kingdoms: art, word, war, the splendid new exhibition at the british library, than most of us w...

David V Barrett

New light shed on Michelangelo’s Pietà

the display of michelangelo’s first contribution to st peter’s, the pietà, within the gigantic basilica which he himself designed much later...

Gregory DiPippo

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...

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Pakistan’s test case

it was an unforgettable moment when i was woken at 5am by a phone call to say that asia bibi had been acquitted by pakistan’s supreme court....

John Pontifex

Why Britain has a problem with adoption

we are accustomed to seeing photographs of american film stars with their adopted children. madonna has four, angelina jolie has three and m...

Mary Kenny

The Nordic Newman

before the advent of lutheranism, the finnish people had been catholic for about 400 years. a hymn in the finnish lutheran hymnal contains t...

Emil Anton

In Rome, tradition is doing good business

when i return to rome, i feel a foolish mixture of excitement and pride, as though the city belongs to me. or rather, as though i belong to ...

Matthew Schmitz

The monk who inspired Tintin

noyelles-sur-mer is an unremarkable village with a remarkable world war ii graveyard. situated at the mouth of the river somme, noyelles was...

Roy Peachey

The Jesuit who stood up to Moscow

"to hell with moscow!” it is manifestly unfair to sum up thus the long and distinguished academic career and ecclesial life of fr robert taf...

Fr Raymond de Souza

The pope, the general and Europe’s tragedy

While Field Marshal Haig was worrying about Catholic 'taint', Benedict XV was assiduously seeking peace between warring nations

Allan Mallinson

Diary: by John Springs

it was varnishing day at the studio this week. not in the royal academy sense, but rather slapping on varnish that warms and softens the coo...

John Springs

Greece: On the precipice

will the monks of mount athos side with moscow or constantinople? the rift between the russian orthodox church and the patriarchate of const...

Fr Mark Drew

Anti-Semitism: Forged by fire

persecution has brought america’s catholics and jews together on october 27, a white nationalist named robert bowers stormed the tree of lif...

Michael Warren Davis

Cornwall: An unlikely Catholic outpost

a parish is thriving against the odds in england’s ‘wild west’ fishermen were the first disciples called by jesus, according to the gospels,...

Teresa Hunter

Pope Francis: Attention deficit

the media are overlooking some of the pontiff’s most important initiatives from the start of his pontificate, pope francis has thrown his we...

Christopher R. Altieri

In brief

buffalo, united states whistleblower goes public with call on bishop to resign a whistleblower who leaked diocesan files on alleged clerical...

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