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Monteverdi’s career of harmony and rivalry
claudio monteverdi, whose 450th anniversary we celebrate this year, was almost as good at grumbling as he was at composing. he had entered t...
Jonathan Wright
Television: A comical trial of Britain’s legal system
it’s hard to tell what the trial is supposed to be. channel 4’s reality drama puts simon davis on trial for the murder of his ex-wife, carla...
Tim Stanley
Fine art: The sculptor who saw the body at its sparest
giacometti tate modern, london, until september 10 in one important sense alberto giacometti was his own worst enemy. the stick-thin human f...
Jonathan Keates
Music: Epic Beethoven in a Borders village church
when you live in london, with the convenience of sophisticated halls and world-class concerts on tap, it’s maybe perverse to take successive...
Michael White
Theatre: A dreamworld of Jews, Mormons and angels
angels in america , tony kushner’s award-winning epic at national theatre, describes the impact of aids on the gay community in san francisc...
Robert Tanitch
Coptic Orthodox bishop tells terrorists: 'You are loved'
Bishop Angaelos said even terrorists are created in God's image, and He placed them on earth for much greater things
Staff Reporter
This wave of technology will transform politics
connected world by philip larrey, penguin, £14.99 the robots have started to arrive and more are coming. in an age of specialisation and acc...
Cardinal George Pell
The American ideas the Nazis borrowed
hitler’s american model by james q whitman, princeton, £19.95 you wonder what this book is about until you read the subtitle: “the united st...
Charlie Hegarty
Briefly noted
world without end by thomas keating ocso (bloomsbury, £10.99) . the author, an american trappist and well-known exponent of contemplative pr...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Omnium Gatherum
dom prosper guéranger, in the liturgical year, looks at the discourse of peter at the pentecost event. the multitudes had gathered for the j...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Word this week
solemnity of pentecost acts 2:1-11; 1 cor 12:3-7; jn 20:19-23 (year a) pentecost comes this year at a time when our nation is still grieving...
Bishop David McGough
Lectio Divina
gift of the holy spirit pentecost sunday: john 20:19-23 19 it was late that sunday evening, and the disciples were gathered together behind ...
Mgr Anthony Abela
Saint of the week: Charles Lwanga (June 3)
a bugandan convert in 1879, the white fathers missionary order arrived in buganda, present-day uganda, and began to preach the gospel. they ...
Staff Reporter
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week i sunday, june 4: pentecost sunday acts 2:1-11; ps 104; 1 cor 12:3b-7, 12-13; jn 20:19-23 monday, june 5: s...
The Catholic Herald
Pastor Iuventus
iraqi christians challenge our lukewarm faith the chaldean catholic archbishop of erbil in northern iraq is a short, stocky man of about 50 ...
Pastor Iuventus
Pictures of the week
1 the duchess of norfolk and james murray, the deputy mayor of london, open depaul’s new homelessness centre in central london. 2 two choris...
The Catholic Herald
Bishop's engagements
cardinal nichols (westminster) sun: mass to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the metropolitan cathedral of christ the king, liverpool, 11.0...
The Catholic Herald
Prize crossword 0493
cryptic across 7 what’s the matter? it’s old susan little! (6) 8 one’s long walk curtailed this morning by someone who spoke to huldah (6) 9...
Alun Evans
Melanie McDonagh: Self-denial should be for Catholics, too
ramadan, the muslim month of fasting and prayer, started last weekend, days after the manchester bombing, in which salman abedi killed 22 pe...
Melanie McDonagh
Going on ahead, preparing the way
‘i go on ahead to prepare a place for you!” jesus speaks these words to his disciples on the eve of his death as he sits at table with them ...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
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