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Bach's divine gift brought to life
the great passion by james runcie bloomsbury, £16.99, 272 pages this sublime novel about the domestic and spiritual genesis behind johann se...
William Cash
Standards in public life are at rock bottom
what does the decline of religion have to do with the current leadership battle in the conservative party? in our strange constitutional arr...
Laura Perrins
Decency is not enough
on various occasions i had to ask myself recently whether i was living in london in 2022 or 1980s italy. the soap opera of government crisis...
Fr Mark Vickers
‘I fight the good fight, the good fight of faith’
father gerald murray is an ice hockey-playing new york priest, canon lawyer and conservative catholic public commentator. he is probably the...
William Cash
The less dangerous US Supreme Court
in federalist paper number 78, alexander hamilton famously contended that the judiciary would be “the least dangerous” of the three branches...
Ken Craycraft
An historical study worth waiting for
a biographical dictionary of english architecture, 1540-1640 mark girouard yale, £40, 372 pages mark girouard, born a catholic in 1937, is t...
Michael Hodges
A fighter for rights
sheila clare hollins – formally known as baroness hollins of wimbledon in the london borough of merton and of grenoside in the county of sou...
Simon Caldwell
Leaving space for the music
imagining the end of time is never a productive exercise but a temptation that attracts us all – including young composers like the noted to...
Michael White
The marvels of Campion Hall, Oxford
the jesuits originally arrived in oxford in 1793 when they opened a small chapel dedicated to st ignatius in st clements. they surrendered r...
Michael Hodges
The Assumption and the Bible
in the middle of this month we will celebrate the solemnity of the assumption of the blessed virgin mary. the belief that our lady’s body wa...
Rev Dr Richard J Ounsworth
Feeding the nation sustainably
as preparations are made to return to school i begin to think of winter stews with barley and log fires, crisp mornings, hot chocolate and a...
charlie-hart
The touching absurdity of beliefs
accidental gods: on men unwittingly turned divine anna della subin granta, £20, 462 pages in rudyard kipling’s short story the man who would...
Alexander Larman
The Synodal Path will not resurrect German Catholicism
a left-turn by the german catholic church is unlikely to resurrect catholicism in the country, as germany’s progressive synodal path seeming...
The Catholic Herald
With most UK babies born out of wedlock, does the Catholic-infused New Right have the solution?
for some, it will be a cause for celebration, for others, a portent of worse to come. the uk’s office of national statistics – britain’s equ...
The Catholic Herald
Pope’s pilgrimage to Canada: why mystery surrounds the graves
any question raised about the mass graves involving indigenous people in canada immediately generates the accusation of someone being an apo...
The Catholic Herald
Imminent schism? Boost for Synodal Path as German Catholics back abortion
the vatican may have come out swinging against the german synodal path , claiming the movement - designed to give lay members a say in runni...
The Catholic Herald
Cardinal Parolin: has Francis’s ally dashed his chances of becoming Pope?
the battle for the next pope may be shaping up to be a contest between a filipino and a hungarian , but vatican secretary of state, pietro p...
The Catholic Herald
Reaching beyond politics: how Pope Francis can win over Russia Patriarch
pope francis met deputy leader of the russian orthodox church, metropolitan antonij, at the vatican late last week. the meeting was part of ...
The Catholic Herald
Cardinal Tagle in UK: was potential pope’s liberal message a sign for future?
filipino cardinal luis antonio tagle - fast-emerging as a frontrunner to succeed pope francis , as rumours grow about a looming papal resign...
The Catholic Herald
Anscombe leads calls for 'Charlie's Law' after death of Archie Battersbee
an internationally-respected catholic bioethics centre has called for urgent reforms of uk law after doctors ended the life of a brain-damag...
Simon Caldwell
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