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The first Nowell
last year, my husband and i decided it would be best to stay in london and celebrate christmas at home. it was our daughter lily’s first chr...
lara prendergast
Loveliest of trees, the chestnut now
there is a huge chestnut tree 50 yards from my study. chestnut trees make a lot of mess – shedding their conkers, spiky shells and leaves th...
charlie-hart
Campaign begins to recognise Brother Michael Strode, monk who founded the HCPT, as a 'modern-day saint'
a campaign is to be launched to canonise a monk who dedicated his life to taking disabled people to lourdes. a mass celebrated at our lady o...
Simon Caldwell
Pope makes 'heartfelt appeal' for solutions to migrant crisis after drownings in English Channel
pope francis has called for solutions to the european migrant crisis that last week cost the lives of 27 people in the english channel. the ...
Staff Reporter
Elgar’s digital revelation
elgar’s 1900 midlands setting of st john henry newman’s the dream of gerontius is a rich starting point for delving into english catholic cu...
Joanna-Bullivant
Saving face
last month, after 13 short years, i deleted my facebook account. the site, at last, has lost any of the allure it once had (more on that lat...
Constance Watson
EU ruling over abortion harms us all
the birth of the christ child is an occasion to reflect on other babies and on life in the womb that precedes birth. the most dispiriting de...
The Catholic Herald
The Father’s Christmas presence
there is something perpetually moving about the christmas story. it is the account of how god became man, and, with magnificent indifference...
The Catholic Herald
The Christmas Stories
there are all sorts of reasons why we choose the mass we usually go to: maybe it’s the music, or the lack of it, or the bells and smells, or...
Rev Dr Richard J Ounsworth
The long shadow of Covid
i have recently been reading david spiegelhalter and anthony masters’ covid by numbers: making sense of the pandemic with data (pelican, 202...
Stephen Bullivant
Rhodes to past glories
'these islands are really heavenly when the weather allows,” wrote lawrence durrell about rhodes in 1946 when he was stationed in the dodeca...
William Cash
Pope Francis recognizes miracle attributed to WWII martyr Bl. Titus Brandsma’s intercession
pope francis has recognized a miracle attributed to titus brandsma, an outspoken opponent of nazism martyred at dachau concentration camp in...
CNA Staff
Tessa's Feasts: Our festive goose is well and truly cooked
i have chosen st martin of tours this month. as the patron saint of geese, he’s an obvious choice for december. i’m giving you an easy,...
Tessa Balfour
Open your homes to refugees fleeing the Taliban, bishop urges the faithful
catholics in england and wales are to be asked to find homes for thousands of afghanistan refugees fleeing the taliban. parishes will be req...
Simon Caldwell
Ethics committee authorizes first assisted suicide in Italy
the catholic church in italy said that life must be “protected and defended” after local health authorities in italy gave the green light to...
Hannah Brockhaus
Painting at center of George Floyd controversy stolen from Catholic University
a pieta painting displayed at the catholic university of america’s law school that some see as depicting george floyd in the place of jesus ...
Joseph Bukuras
Panel of women scholars discuss danger of redefining women
efforts to redefine women undermine their feminine dignity and unjustly pressure them to resort to abortions to keep pace with men in the wo...
Kelsey Wicks CNA
RIP David Amess – a Requiem Mass for the Don Quixote of British Politics
on a crisp and sombre november day at a packed out westminster cathedral, his eminence cardinal nichols was the principal celebrant at the r...
Staff Reporter
Former priest files new sexual abuse lawsuit against Theodore McCarrick
a former catholic priest who has previously alleged that ex-cardinal theodore mccarrick sexually abused him when he was a seminarian has fil...
Kevin-Jones
The last surviving Trappist monk from Algeria massacre has died at 97
father jean pierre schumacher, one of two monks who survived the tibhirine abbey massacre in algeria in 1996, has died at the age of 97. sch...
Courtney Mares
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