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The Catholic Herald

Arts essay: Ireland’s farewell to a world of beauty

where will my countrymen find transcendence now, asks michael duggan in the middle of the last century, whenever they needed to experience t...

Michael Duggan

Music: Spending too long in the trenches

in the coming weeks there will be no escape from world war i commemorations. in the concert hall, onstage and in exhibition spaces we’ll be ...

Michael White

Film: An elusive figure in the line of fire

under the wire is a documentary about the war correspondent marie colvin. it is also, just as much, a film about her photographer colleague ...

KV Turley

The year couples left the Church ‘on tiptoe’

michael duggan steps into a time machine that takes him back to humanae vitae the schism of ‘68 edited by alana harris, palgrave, 400pp, £69...

Michael Duggan

Treating reality like a playground

david beer on the new class who have hacked the media the death of the gods by carl miller, heinemann, 400pp, £20 it’s tempting to think of ...

David Beer

No one can tell how a child will grieve

children and loss by sue mcdermott, redemptorist publications, 65pp, £4.95 this is an excellent booklet, scripted by an author who has more ...

Fr Denis Blackledge SJ

Word this week

the 29th sunday of the year is 53:10-11; heb 4:14-16; mk 10:35-45 (year b) throughout the world this sunday is kept as world mission day. we...

Bishop David McGough

Omnium Gatherum

the collect, ancient in origin, for this 29th ordinary sunday in the novus ordo , is prayed in the extraordinary form on sunday after ascens...

Fr John Zuhlsdorf

Mass readings

ordinary form divine office week i sunday, october 21: the 29th sunday of the year is 53:10-11; ps 33; heb 4:14-16; mk 10:35-45 monday, octo...

The Catholic Herald

Prize crossword 0564

cryptic across 1 california’s (whichever way you look), north america’s ‘promised land’ (6) 4 dreadfully-sounding irish county (6) 8 easterl...

Alun Evans

Matthew Walther: The consoling gloom of Paul VI

i have no doubt that giovanni battista enrico antonio maria montini currenly enjoys the beatific vision for the very simple reason that i ha...

Matthew Walther

Suicide and the soul

more than 50 years ago, the american psychologist james hillman wrote a book entitled suicide and the soul . it was intended for therapists ...

Fr Ronald Rolheiser

The Argentine Church must not be cowed by violent feminist attacks

The Church must be courageous in proclaiming the sanctity of life

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

Radical feminists attack church and town hall in Argentina

The women also attacked other public buildings with bombs, stones, and graffiti

Catholic News Agency

Morning Catholic must-reads: 17/10/18

A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church

Luke Coppen

Cardinal Sarah: 'Watering down' Church teaching won't attract young people

Young people are idealistic and want clarity, the cardinal said

Cindy Wooden

Jesuit superior says pope is not the ‘chief’ of the Church- What did he mean?

Fr Arturo Sosa said: 'the Pope is not the chief of the Church, he's the Bishop of Rome'

Hannah Brockhaus/CNA

Letters from the Synod-2018: October 17

Reports and Commentary, from Rome and Elsewhere, on the XV Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops

Xavier Rynne II

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