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September education feature: Teaching the teachers

catholic schools form the soul as well as the mind – so it’s not just the students who need mentoring at this time of year most schools will...

Fr Matthew Pittam

Education feature: An anchor in a changing world

faith and reason, student welfare and a role for parents: cardinal newman’s vision of education was way ahead of its time aristotle praised ...

Matthew Fogg

Arts essay: The curious cult of the ‘French Elvis’

it’s a late summer morning at the église de la madeleine in paris. as tourists wander into the imposing neo-classical church, hundreds of th...

Jean-Christophe Laurence

Classical: We’re no longer the Land Without Music

for a land without music, as the germans used to call us, we british don’t do badly when it comes to sending conductors overseas to run the ...

Michael White

Film: Polish heroes who defied the doubters

the year is 1940, and the battle of britain is going so badly for the raf that the top brass are reluctantly considering allowing a group of...

Will Gore

From popes and purgatory to horror films and rap

dante’s divine comedy by ian thomson, head of zeus, 280pp, £18.99 the notion of a literary canon is an unfashionable one. on english courses...

Matt Thorne

The busy genius with time for the lowly

the world in thirty-eight chapters by henry hitchings, macmillan, 320pp, £16.99 there have been many biographies of dr johnson. indeed, imme...

Jack Carrigan

Dashes, brackets, and Oxford commas

after scanning the contents page of this slim volume, i made my way directly to chapter 17. the title of this chapter, “-ize or -ise”, had s...

Michael Duggan

Practical tips for one of life’s hardest journeys

terminal illness by dr elizabeth toy, dr catherine o’neill and dr sarah jackson, redemptorist, 53pp, £5 written by three west country profes...

Fr Denis Blackledge SJ

Omnium Gatherum

during september, marian liturgical observances come in rapid succession. on september 8 we celebrate the nativity of mary. on the 12th, we ...

Fr John Zuhlsdorf

Word this week

the 23rd sunday of the year is 35:4-7; jas 2:1-5; mk 7:31-37 (year b) “say to all faint hearts, ‘courage, do not be afraid. look, your god i...

Bishop David McGough

Mass readings

ordinary form divine office week iii sunday, september 9: 23rd sunday in ordinary time is 35:4-7a; ps 146; jas 2:1-5; mk 7:31-37 monday, sep...

The Catholic Herald

Fr Dominic Allain: My plea to the Holy Father

i was in assisi last week when news of archbishop viganò’s dossier broke, swelling the tsunami of scandal that raged all summer. the geograp...

Fr Dominic Allain

Prize crossword 0558

cryptic across 5 it’s outlandish the messiah seeing members of a mecca family (10) 7 reuben, on israel, included benjamin originally (3-3) 8...

Alun Evans

Who's in the running for Cafod's top job?

The aid agency is choosing a new director. Here are six possible candidates

Dan Hitchens

Joanna Bogle: Learning from the young Americans

every year, for the past quarter of a century, a christian charity with which i am involved has run a nationwide schools bible project. its ...

Joanna Bogle

How to respond

sometimes all you can do is to put your mouth to the dust and wait.” that’s a counsel from the book of lamentations, and while perhaps not t...

Fr Ronald Rolheiser

Priest thanks Muslims for aiding flood victims at his church in Kerala

Amid flooding which has displaced a million people, Muslims brought food, water and medicine to those sheltering in Fr Puthussery's church

Catholic News Agency

Vatican updates schedule for papal visit to Baltic states

Pope Francis will make a four-day trip to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia

Cindy Wooden

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