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Quotes of the week
"in all the best families, there’s a black sheep" cardinal carlos aguiar retes of mexico city criticises catholics who stole amazon statues ...
Staff writers
Meanwhile: Pray and display
a church in avezzano, central italy, has put a “pray and display” sign in its car park. fr vincenzo de mario of the madonna del passo church...
Staff writers
The best of the web: Iceland's booming Church, Quietism, and perfect contrition
iceland’s churches are filling up fast in 1994, iceland’s catholics made up just one per cent of the population, wrote lea müller at the rey...
Staff writers
The week ahead: Newman museum, purgatory, and the ordinariate
the museum of st john henry newman, at the oratory of st philip neri in birmingham, is now open. for the first time, the new saint’s possess...
Staff writers
Overlooked: Sri Lanka terror report blames spy chief
what happened? a sri lankan parliamentary committee has concluded that the state intelligence service chief was responsible for inte...
Staff writers
The big story: Amazon synod calls for married priests
what happened? the contentious amazon synod has come to an end, with bishops approving a document that calls for married priests in t...
Staff writers
In ten years we'll know if the synod succeeded
the word “revolutionary” has been overused since the election of pope francis in 2013. but it might apply to the amazon synod which conclude...
The Catholic Herald
November 1, 2019
The Catholic Herald
The grace within passivity
a friend of mine grew up with five siblings and an alcoholic father. the effect of her father’s alcoholism was devastating on her family. he...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
At Newman's canonisation, Roman babble was reduced to total silence
it felt as if we were in a film. rustling birds announced the approach of dawn in the eternal city. a tinkle came from the convent in the ga...
David Twiston Davies
Heretic of the week: Peter Deunov
peter deunov (1864-1944) was born in the village of nikolaevka to the first bulgarian orthodox priest ever to replace old church slavonic wi...
Charles Coulombe
Prize crossword 0616
cryptic across 7 camouflaged crusader chap’s hard-wearing uniforms on sundays? (6,7) 8 where paul landed against the tide, going west, is th...
Alun Evans
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week ii sunday, october 27 : the 30th sunday in ordinary time sir 35:12-14, 16-18; ps 34; 2 tm 4:6-8, 16-18...
The Catholic Herald
How to… Avoid idolatry
catholics have always been great destroyers of pagan idols. st artemius, a roman administrator, was executed for vandalising the temples of ...
The Catholic Herald
It's taken me a lifetime to understand Thomas à Kempis
it has long been a theory of mine that, like film classifications, books could carry a kind of age-appropriate rating. this wouldn’t be to c...
Fr Dominic Allain
Obedience to God is the path to happiness
while in the traditional roman calendar the last sunday of october is dedicated to christ the king, not merely in the summation of all thing...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Jesus teaches us how to turn to our Judge
the 30th sunday of the year eccl 35:12-14 & 16-19; 2 tim 4:6-8 & 16-18; lk 18:9-14 (year c) “the lord is close to the broken-hearted...
Bishop David McGough
The myth of progress has undermined religion. Yet I foresee a comeback
the plight of western religion by paul gifford, hurst, 173pp, £25/$28.69 a familiar image of western christianity before modern times has be...
Jonathan Wright
Great Books courses are richly rewarding - but they have a fatal flaw
how to keep from losing your mind by deal hudson tan, 384pp, £22/$24.95 in the 1920s, some influential academics were dismayed to find that ...
Joseph Shaw
Love and cowardice in France's 'Dark Years'
madeleine by euan cameron maclehose, 330pp, £17/$22 euan cameron was my first publisher and editor more than 40 years ago and has been one o...
Allan Massie
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