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The tolerance of George III
in the long via dolorosa down which roman catholics had to march to win the franchise before 1829, they hardly had a more resolute opponent ...
Andrew Roberts
October Diary: Reflecting on the plight of refugees
i was in vienna for a few days last month and kept seeing the stumbling stones, brass cobbles with the names and dates of death of the jews ...
Anna Somers Cocks
Diary: Art without God
i was going through some of my old portfolios the other day – i am a catholic-raised artist working somewhat incongruously in the atelier of...
Adam Dant
The remarkable restoration of St Birinus, Dorchester-upon-Thames
st birinus, probably a monk of st andrew’s benedictine monastery on the caelian hill in rome, was ordered by pope honorius i to england in 6...
Michael Hodges
Social unrest appeased in Colombia, but crisis goes on
in april, massive demonstrations exploded in cali and in several colombian cities. a combination of rising poverty, political dissatisfactio...
Eduardo Campos Lima
How Dante shows up wokeness
the text came 45 minutes before year 1 started on 2 september. “just to let you know that sasha is now haruto (japanese name). we tried it o...
Diego Murillo
On Pilgrimage with Rosemary Hill
where would you go? i would go to canterbury which is not very original, but i have my reasons. where i live in south london is very close t...
The Catholic Herald
Wanted: backers for a religious thriller
in march 2020, with lockdown imminent, an old friend called laurie berg rang me to ask if i would read a synopsis for a religious film or pe...
David Sower
Minding our language
i have bad news for you: the anglo-saxons didn’t exist. i realise you may have studied them or taught classes about them, but the fact remai...
Roy Peachey
Mass appeal should be for everyone
one of the pope’s titles is that of pontifex, or bridge builder. it is an aspect of his office that pope francis might reflect on when it co...
The Catholic Herald
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
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