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Pope Francis "rested well during the night"
a picture taken on july 5, 2021 shows the a. gemelli hospital in rome, where pope francis aunderwent surgery on sunday. (andreas solaro/afp ...
Staff Reporter
Oxford Dreams
“i am beginning to take active steps to carry out my oxford dreams,” the dominican fr raphael moss confided to his diary on 26 june 1904. hi...
Rev Dr Richard Finn
Priest jailed on terror charges dies awaiting third bail hearing in India
fr stan swami sj (file photo courtesy of jesuits.org ) the 84-year-old fr stan swami sj died just ahead of his third scheduled bail h...
Benwen Lopez
Doctors forget they are plumbers
the highly praised novelist, columnist for the spectator , the oldie , and the catholic herald , creator of cookbooks, and duckworth's ficti...
Lessons from the Archives
Traditional Latin Mass advocates appeal to Pope to protect Summorum Pontificum
a federation that advocates for the traditional latin mass has appealed to pope francis to protect it from those "within the church, includi...
Catholic News Agency
Pope Francis Recovering after Surgery
pope francis “has reacted well” to a scheduled surgery for an intestinal condition, according to the director of the holy see press office. ...
Staff Reporter
‘We should never have a perfect Church’
canon law is dinner-party talk once more. in households up and down the country, catholic and non-catholic alike, the canonical form of marr...
David Cowan
Cardinal Parolin on Vatican corruption trial: We're victims
pope francis speaks with vatican secretary of state, cardinal pietro parolin, in the vatican, 21 december 2017. (claudio peri/afp via getty ...
Christopher Altieri
Vatican Finances: Cardinal Becciu, 9 others indicted on various charges
pope francis at the weekly general audience, 19 may 2021. (filippo monteforte/afp via getty images) updated with further statements a...
Christopher Altieri
A communion conundrum
until my late father-in-law went into a care home and forgot about church, he’d only missed mass twice in the entire course of his nine deca...
Cressida Connolly
Surviving the holiday
july is a month of leisure and fruitfulness, holidays in which to bask in decent weather and drink exotic cocktails, cereal crops that swell...
charlie-hart
Smaller wedding – stronger sacrament?
i wonder whether we should really be lamenting the latest delay of so-called freedom day quite so much. confusingly, under new rules there w...
Constance Watson
Diary: Paying homage to Our Lady of Lord's
mass during the pandemic has generally been more old than new rite, extraordinary rather than ordinary. it turns out that many modern ...
Jacob Rees-Mogg
The Passion(fruit) of St Swithin
what an amazingly versatile food an egg is. i well remember as a child the slogan of “go to work on an egg”, the very successful advertising...
Tessa Balfour
Reappraising Rome’s rock-star emperor
like the emperor nero, the british museum knows how to put on a show. that hangar of a space bearing the sainsbury name can sometimes overwh...
Lucien de Guise
Holy fool of letters
a new biography of dh lawrence, burning man: the ascent of dh lawrence by frances wilson, is an opportunity to reflect not only on the life ...
Theo Hobson
Rediscovering Ronnie
a few years ago i returned from the bodleian to find a small parcel in my college pigeon hole, placed there by the senior tutor. it containe...
Serenhedd James
A home away from home
when i was preparing to leave london for the south welsh countryside early last year, a priest friend warned me not be complacent. “people l...
Olenka Hamilton
Mysteries of the hidden oratory
very few secret catholic chapels from the 16th century have been identified in england – fewer, indeed, than the “priest holes’”(properly ca...
Francis Young and Brigitte Webster
Seville's ancient alchemy of agony and ecstasy
goodness knows what non-catholics, let alone atheists, must make of it all when visiting seville. you can’t move in the capital of southern ...
James Jeffrey
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