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I attacked the ordinariate. Now I’m a Catholic
autumn 2007 haverhill, massachusetts, is a rusty, decaying old industrial town. it peaked in the 1940s, when it was the hub of shoemaking an...
Michael Warren Davis
Mary Kenny: Politics is becoming a vintage comedy
how history repeats itself – ironically, if not farcically. more than 100 years ago, the irish parliamentary party held the balance of power...
Mary Kenny
Northern Irish women not entitled to free abortions in England, Supreme Court rules
Judges threw out the appeal by a slim majority of three to two
Staff Reporter
How a garden can become a spiritual sanctuary
a calvary garden, a place for the contemplation of christ’s passion, has been created above the river artro in gwynedd, wales. it may be the...
Helen Harrison
Television: Dystopian drama takes aim at liberals
the handmaid’s tale (channel 4, sundays, 9pm) isn’t an easy fit for the small screen. it’s the story of offred, a woman living in an america...
Tim Stanley
Theatre: Give this bonkers Cold War Woyzeck a miss
georg büchner wrote woyzeck in 1837, the year he died, aged 23. there was no definitive text, just fragments of paper. it wasn’t performed f...
Robert Tanitch
Music: Gilbert & Sullivan are a monumental bore
deathless humour is a rarity. while jane austen, shakespeare and maybe chaucer can still make us laugh across the centuries, lesser masters ...
Michael White
Music: The band that saved Germany from kitsch
can – the singles mute/spoon records, vinyl/cd/download can, typically for a so-called krautrock band, rejected germany’s saccharine post-wa...
Ian Thomson
Cardinal Kasper chases the spectre of Luther
martin luther: an ecumenical perspective by walter kasper, paulist press, £10 this slim volume weighs in at a mere 43 pages, some of which a...
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Spiritual books round up
the roman catacombs by fr james spencer northcote, sophia institute press, £12 this book, first published in 1877 by an early member of the ...
Francis Phillips
The rape victim who forgave her attacker
in 1996, thordis elva, an icelandic teenager, was raped for two hours by tom stranger, her australian boyfriend. some years later they embar...
Dr David Cowan
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Briefly noted
the image of god, personhood and the embryo by calum mackellar (scm press, £35) . the author, an expert on medical ethics and visiting profe...
Staff writers
Omnium Gatherum
each year, stretching back to the middle ages, on the thursday following trinity sunday we joyfully honour the eucharistic lord with masses,...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Saint of the week: John Fisher (June 22)
worldly success like st thomas more, whose feast day he shares, st john fisher had a reputation for holiness long before his actual martyrdo...
Staff Reporter
PICTURES: Cardinal and London Mayor host interfaith Ramadan gathering
The Cardinal invited London Mayor Sadiq Khan and Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, along with young people of various faith, to Archbishop's House in Westminster
Staff Reporter
Lectio Divina
living bread the body and blood of christ: john 6:51-58 51 “i am the living bread that came down from heaven. if anyone eats this bread, he ...
Mgr Anthony Abela
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week iii sunday, june 18: most holy body & blood of the lord dt 8:2-3, 14b-16a; ps 147; 1 cor 10:16-17; jn 6...
The Catholic Herald
Pastor Iuventus
‘i can’t pray.’ are you sure? st teresa of avila is both encouraging and totally realistic about difficulties in prayer. she speaks honestly...
Pastor Iuventus
Pictures of the week
1 vatican archbishop paul gallagher attends the golden jubilee celebrations at liverpool’s metropolitan cathedral (photo: mazur/catholicnews...
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