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Centesimus Annus After 30 Years
chinese workers walk down a dirt access road from one of beijing's major air polluters, the capital iron and steel factory, 16 february 2001...
Ken Craycraft
Explainer: What changes to Vatican law did Pope Francis make last week (and what difference will they make)?
pope francis looks on during christmas greetings to the roman curia on december 21, 2019. (andrew medichini/pool/afp via getty images)  ...
Tommaso Pozzi
Church to canonise Charles de Foucauld, six others
pope francis cleared the way for the canonization of blessed charles de foucauld and six others at an ordinary public consistory held at the...
Tommaso Pozzi
Ecuadorian bishops circle wagons after resignation of Riobamba bishop, coadjutor
the bishops of ecuador gathered in riobamba, 2018. image credit: bishops' conference of ecuador. bishop, coadjutor of ecuadorian see ...
Eduardo Campos Lima
All Ireland that Froze for Want of Europe
irish novelist francis macmanus (c), with irish writer, broadcaster and abbey theatre director, robert farren (r) at the palace bar in...
Michael Duggan
Pope Francis appeals for peace in Myanmar
pope francis is asking catholics to pray for peace in myanmar. in remarks following the public recitation of the regina coeli on sunday, pop...
Staff Reporter
Habits of prayer
sarah sands’ recent book, the interior silence: 10 lessons from monastic life , was reviewed in these pages last month. elsewhere in the iss...
Serenhedd James
The unseen hook
anyone reporting critically on the papacy, however objective their intent, risks being caught in the crossfire between the liberals and cons...
John Cornwell
Stranger than fiction
the adventures of miss barbara pym by paula byrne £25, 704pp, william collins ________ towards the end of paula byrne’s biography of the nov...
Helena Kelly
Prince Philip – an ordinary christian
prince philip’s mother, alice, founded an order of nuns and his great aunt ella (grand duchess serge) was canonised as a holy martyr by the ...
Philip Eade
Hail Mary, the Queen of May
living in the countryside, it is easy to see why may has traditionally been associated with mary. this is a month for the countryside over a...
charlie-hart
Last of the Antiquarian Country Parsons
four of us assembled at sotheby’s on a chilly february day in 2000 to drive up to marston, a few miles north of grantham, off the a1, to att...
Michael Hodges
Haunted by Franco
last days in cleaver square patrick mcgrath hutchinson, £16.99, 240 pages ________ patrick mcgrath’s father, an irish catholic, was m...
Elisa Segrave
Look back in languor
malice in wonderland: my adventures in the world of cecil beaton hugo vickers hodder & stoughton, pp 352, £25.00 ________ in these times...
Nicky Haslam
The last of Henry's wives
katharine parr, the sixth wife alison weir headline, £20, 528 pages ________ this historical novel is the last in alison weir’s six tudor qu...
Linda Porter
Diary: This is a shrine, not a B&B
i've been at our national catholic shrine of our lady in walsingham since mid-september, so within the period of the pandemic but not, at th...
Rt Rev Mgr Canon Philip Moger
The Queen’s Christian example
the queen, in the loss of her husband, has the great consolation of every christian: the resurrection of the dead, part of the creed that sh...
The Catholic Herald
A non-conformist life
there are several ways in which “the lost tools of learning” – a paper she gave in 1947 – is typical of dorothy l sayers: there is the braci...
Melanie McDonagh
Office Politics
the impossible office? the history of the british prime minister anthony seldon cambridge university press, £19.99 ________ anthony seldon’s...
Sir Bill Cash
Pentecost in the Catacombs
pentecost this year falls on 23rd may. the feast is especially important this year because not only does it symbolise the origins of the chr...
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