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Tessa’s Feasts: herring and monkfish for St Andrew
in store this month are a couple of fish dishes in honour of the patron saint of fishing, st andrew – better known as the patron saint of sc...
Tessa Balfour
Mist and moments of delight
we feel we live a long way from the coast but actually very few places in britain are indeed a long way from the coast and, in north essex, ...
charlie-hart
Scotland's Spiritual Isle
when the remains of several dozen butchered bodies were dug up in iona, not far from the village port – after being found by 20th-century sc...
William Cash
Pope to declare St Irenaeus of Lyon the 'Doctor of Unity'
pope francis has announced that he plans to declare st irenaeus of lyon a doctor of the church with the title “doctor unitatis,” meaning “do...
Courtney Mares
William, it was really something
oh william! by elizabeth strout viking penguin, £14.99, 256 pages ________ the best-known and certainly the most dramatic novel about a form...
Cressida Connolly
Strengthening those in despair
you might think poets make natural martyrs. passionate, idealistic, enraptured by visions of artistic immortality; throughout history, barri...
Archie Hill
Pope's 'moment of shame' as vast scale of child abuse in French Church is revealed
a bombshell report which claimed french priests, and teachers and lay workers sexually abused a third of a million children since 1950 repre...
Simon Caldwell
Helping to lift burdens
as we grow closer to the poor, little by little we gain their confidence and can advise them in the most terrible moments of this earthly pi...
Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati
Lifeline to heaven
how many millions of miles rosary beads have travelled through troubled fingers only god and his mother know. how many miracles of grace it ...
Sister Mary Jean
A readable yarn but none too credible
matrix by lauren groff william heinemann, £16.99, 272 pages __________ the 12th-century poet we know as marie de france was, scholars ...
Arabella Byrne
Following St Francis
on 4 october 2003, the feast day of saint francis, i arrived in santiago de compostela, having completed the camino frances, the pilgrimage ...
Niall Gooch
Saints and Saleability
religious relics and devotional merchandise can be macabre, thought-provoking, whimsical and, in some cases, downright entertaining. in ital...
Anthony Cazalet
The Synod Needs You
a synod on synodality may seem like an oxymoron but that is what is beginning this month. pope francis wants to rethink how the church is ru...
The Catholic Herald
The Thin End of the Wedge
the spectre of so-called “assisted dying” is rearing its head again, as the british medical association controversially changes its stance t...
Justin Doherty
Bishop calls for DNA tests and physical checks as transsexuals infiltrate seminaries
transsexual women are presenting themselves as men to infiltrate catholic seminaries, a us bishop has said. bishops should now order physica...
Simon Caldwell
University reverses cancellation of chaplain who tweeted against abortion and assisted suicide
a university has performed a u-turn on its decision to “cancel” a catholic chaplain after he tweeted against abortion and assisted suicide. ...
Simon Caldwell
High Court rejects landmark case to halt late-term abortions of disabled babies
the high court has thrown out a landmark challenge to the law that permits abortion up to birth of disabled children. the case was brought b...
Simon Caldwell
Police arrest man over Mary Queen of Scots rosary theft
police have questioned a man in connection with the theft of rosary beads which belonged to mary queen of scots. the beads are said to have ...
Simon Caldwell
Pope Francis to Slovakian Jesuits: ‘Some people wanted me to die’ amid health problems
vatican city, sep 21, 2021 / 05:20 am in a private meeting with jesuits in slovakia on sept. 12, pope francis said that there were people wh...
Hannah Brockhaus
Pope Francis to theologians: See ‘contemporary challenges in light of the Wisdom of the Cross’
vatican city, sep 21, 2021 / 04:10 am pope francis urged theologians gathering in rome on tuesday to promote “a renewed understanding of con...
CNA Staff
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