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Fatima at 100: Signs from heaven

sunday, may 13, 1917 would prove to be an auspicious day, both for the catholic church and for the whole tumultuous course of the 20th centu...

Stephen Bullivant

Fatima at 100: Can a scientist take Fatima seriously?

the question in the headline implies that the expected answer is “no”, but as a former particle physicist, my response is “why not?” contrar...

Fr Andrew Pinsent

Fatima at 100: Fatima’s harrowing message of freedom

at fatima, our lady scared the hell out of the children to whom she appeared. or more precisely, she frightened the children out of hell and...

Fr Raymond de Souza

Science and faith: The club that could extend your life

yesterday i had a telephone call from rupert (not his real name). i usually see him once a fortnight but recently he has been away suffering...

Quentin de la Bedoyere

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Colin Brazier: How my wife became an eco-warrior

back in brussels. not to present brexit news, but to speak to meps at the european parliament. they want to hear about sky tv’s campaign aga...

Colin Brazier

St Paul’s lesson for 21st-century Malta

malta seems to be tailor-made for those who, like me, can’t help wondering if and how one can remain fully catholic in this era of globalisa...

Paolo Gambi

Mary Kenny: Ireland’s vanishing blasphemy law

ireland has been criticised – even condemned – once again because the performer and writer stephen fry has been accused of blasphemy, under ...

Mary Kenny

Comments of the week

pius xii’s canonisation isn’t guaranteed sir – regarding the possible canonisation of pope pius xii, sir anthony holland (letter, may 5) say...

The Catholic Herald

A theology lesson for Renaissance princes

occasionally artists are also theologians, giving visual form to ideas about god. such was raphael, called to fresco pope julius ii’s apartm...

Mgr Timothy Verdon

Television: A drama that made me feel sick to my soul

benedict xvi once noted that in the early church, converts were asked to renounce not just the devil’s sins but also his pomp. pomp partly r...

Tim Stanley

Fine art: The beast lurking among Picasso’s beauties

the picasso: minotaurs and matadors exhibition at the gagosian (london w1, until august 25) is a burdensome proposal. to face a picasso is a...

Miguel Cullen

Music: Radical opera at a surreal dinner party

we’ve all known dinner parties that went on too long, but rarely with the consequences of the one in thomas adès’s new opera, the exterminat...

Michael White

Film: Love, lies and trauma in the aftermath of war

it seems only yesterday that we were commemorating the centenary of the outbreak of world war i. three years on, and it is now the terrible ...

Mark Le Fanu

‘Catholic’ must be more than just a brand name

catholic social thought edited by david o’brien and thomas shannon, orbis, £30 there are 687 pages in this collection of church documents, r...

Brandon McGinley

The timeless poetry of a bedridden genius

david jones: engraver, soldier, painter, poet by thomas dilworth, jonathan cape, £25 david jones is the author of two of the greatest modern...

Gerald Russello

The highs and lows of a crusading journalist

ludo and the power of the book by richard ingrams, constable, £20 between 1961 and 1986, ludovic kennedy wrote five books about miscarriages...

Bob Woffinden

Briefly noted

the pilgrims’ way by leigh hatts (cicerone press, £12.95) . the author has written an excellent guide for walkers tackling the ancient pilgr...

Staff writers

Omnium Gatherum

our lord said, “when it is evening, you say, it will be fair weather, for the sky is red. and in the morning: today there will be a storm, f...

Fr John Zuhlsdorf

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