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'No misunderstanding': Cardinal Sarah meets pope emeritus
cardinal robert sarah has met with pope emeritus benedict xvi to discuss the controversy following around their recently-published book "fro...
Catholic News Agency
Catholic parish will no longer host consecration of female Episcopalian bishop
the episcopal diocese of southern virginia will no longer hold an episcopal consecration and ordination at a catholic parish in williamsburg...
Christine Rousselle/CNA
Vatican picks Hong Kong bishop, delays announcement
the holy see has delayed announcing its pick for the next bishop of hong kong, cna has learned, amid concerns that local clergy and lay cath...
Ed Condon/CNA
Report: Around the world, 260 million Christians face persecution
christian persecution around the world is a growing problem, says a new report from an agency that documents abuses against christians acros...
Catholic News Agency
Why you should read St Augustine's Confessions this year
the eminent historian peter brown notes that in the fourth century there were many elite men writing “another kind of letter” about their li...
C C Pecknold
Morning Catholic must-reads: 17/01/20
protesters have disrupted the installation mass of the new archbishop of santiago, chile. two kidnapped syrian bishops were killed in 2016 ,...
Luke Coppen
Labour leadership candidate criticised over abortion stance
the frontrunner in the leadership contest for britain’s labour party has been criticised by the media and her fellow labour mps for opposing...
Nick Hallett
The old approach to confirmation isn't working
it is hazardous to write about children because you risk condescending, or making fun of them in that “kids say the funniest things” way – w...
Andrew M Brown
Prize crossword 0627
cryptic across 1 midpoint of an ot empire? (6) 4 boy, with setter aboard, makes for ot summit (6) 9 historian implied american connection (7...
Alun Evans
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week ii sunday, january 19 : the second sunday in ordinary time is 49:3, 5-6; ps 40; 1 cor 1:1-3; jn 1:29-3...
The Catholic Herald
How to… Be a coeliac Catholic
bread made for celebrating the eucharist must be unleavened and made solely from wheat flour mixed with water, according to the general inst...
The Catholic Herald
The Benedict-Sarah book shows how to defend priestly celibacy
various things conspire to bring on the january blues, like the fact that i have paid several hundred pounds in motoring fines in the past m...
Fr Dominic Allain
This Sunday, listen out for a 'liturgical unicorn'
fifty years ago, paul vi implemented a new form of the roman missal, a departure from the tradition of centuries not just in forms and gestu...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Where to look when we feel we've laboured in vain
the second sunday of the year is 49:3 & 5-6; 1 cor 1:1-3; jn 1:29-34 (year a) "the lord said to me, ‘you are my servant, israel, in whom...
Bishop David McGough
Will there be dentist drills in heaven?
divine bodies by candida moss yale, 195pp, £35/$45 most christians would agree that heaven is a place that can’t be conceptualised from our ...
Jonathan Wright
How a militaristic goddess became the Venus of Western art
venus and aphrodite by bettany hughes weidenfeld and nicolson, 241pp, £12.99/$17 whether we know her as the roman venus or the greek aphrodi...
David V Barrett
What is Notre-Dame without the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass?
notre-dame by ken follet harper, 80pp, £9.99/$17 before he has reached the 10th sentence of his new book, notre-dame, the bestselling noveli...
Michael Duggan
The Aeronauts is baloney – but it's thrilling to watch
on my last trip to london, i visited st paul’s and ascended the 528 steps to the golden gallery, 280 feet from the cathedral floor. it took ...
Carl Curtis
The New Pope: A dark, fantastical vision of the Vatican
the new pope is not to be confused with the two popes, the buddy comedy about francis and benedict that netflix released before christmas (a...
Will Gore
Letters: We can resist the sex education lobby
parents versus the sex ed establishment sir – james caffery’s letter (january 3) highlights a major issue – and source of considerable confl...
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