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Labour conference: You must be joking
a misjudged remark has provoked a backlash at this week’s labour conference in liverpool, delegates were celebrating the ten commandments. n...
Dan Hitchens
Traditional Latin Mass: Beyond borders
britain gains its first ‘personal parish’ for the extraordinary form “as a general rule,” the code of canon law says, “a parish is to be ter...
Dan Hitchens
Ember Days: The return of penance
bishops are enlisting lay people for a spiritual crusade against corruption the ember days recall an age when the rhythms of human life were...
Michael Warren Davis
The Netherlands: Empty pews, empty coffers
a row about church closures has prompted one politician to leave catholicism last month the medieval church of st walburga in the dutch city...
Mark De Vries
Diary: by Michael Hodges
i am writing this on the feast of our lady of walsingham, overlooking the terrace of villa palazzola outside rome, which offers stunning vie...
Michael Hodges
Interview: Metropolitan Hilarion on the Orthodox crisis
when i met the senior russian orthodox official metropolitan hilarion in lisbon last week, i asked him about the current crisis in the ortho...
Filipe D'Avillez
Orthodoxy on the brink
for centuries, the archbishops of constantinople could credibly claim to be the “ecumenical patriarch”. their see was the “new rome”, centre...
Fr Mark Drew
Fr Raymond J de Souza: Benedict’s defence
the abdication of pope benedict xvi, an event the magnitude of which is difficult to exaggerate, returned to the news last week with the rel...
Fr Raymond de Souza
Cartoon: by Kipper Williams
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America’s favourite foreigners
five candidates for sainthood – all europeans – present an antidote to a national malaise we americans are a fiercely nationalistic people –...
Charles Coulombe
The irony of the China deal
last week, the vatican signed a concordat with a totalitarian regime. the chinese government, which has harassed and tortured millions of ch...
Matthew Schmitz
Science & faith: The Church’s turning point
it must be approaching 50 years since my eldest son accused me of not being like other fathers. his criticism was “other fathers answer thei...
Quentin de la Bedoyere
Varadkar’s tradition
relations between britain and ireland certainly have deteriorated over brexit – and in particular over the headache of the border. the repub...
Mary Kenny
‘We carried the Gospel with empty hands’
the asian nation’s first cardinal on persecuted minorities, democracy’s rebirth and his small but growing flock until recently, burma seemed...
Angelo Stagnaro
Comments of the week
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How one Catholic charity is helping the most marginalised of all – prisoners
The St Vincent de Paul Society reminds prisoners they are still part of humanity
Anita Boniface
Music: When WH Auden broke opera’s rules
people who write words for opera end to tell you it’s a thankless task. the text is always secondary to the music, which invariably drowns i...
Michael White
Fine arts: Primeval mysticism, dog teeth included
the royal academy’s new exhibition oceania is as big as the subject deserves. it’s a happy coincidence for this neglected field that 2018 ma...
Lucien de Guise
Playing out Job’s struggle in the South Pacific
allan massie admires an wilson’s unfashionable preoccupation with theology aftershocks by an wilson, atlantic books, 273pp, £16.99 an wilson...
Allan Massie
Should we reboot the internet?
just going back to typewriters isn’t enough, says matt thorne democracy hacked by martin moore, oneworld, 336pp, £16.99 on june 29, 2011, po...
Matt Thorne
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