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The arrival of refugees, old and new
the religious congregation to which i belong, the missionary oblates of mary immaculate, has had a long relationship with the indigenous peo...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Newman is the antidote to Nietzsche
i first came across the name john henry newman in primary school. the hymns firmly i believe and truly and praise to the holiest were often ...
Tracey Rowland
Heretic of the week: John Nelson Darby
john nelson darby (1800-1882) was the most prominent co-founder of the plymouth brethren, a group which has numbered many famous names among...
Charles Coulombe
Prize crossword 0614
cryptic across 7 new zealander, troublesome and ludicrously lewd, outed a galilean (8) 8 brown horse leaves home after cow at last moves out...
Alun Evans
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week iv sunday, october 13 : 28th sunday in ordinary time 2 kgs 5:14-17; ps 98; 2 tm 2:8-13; lk 17:11-...
The Catholic Herald
How to… Take part in Rosary on the Coast events
october is the month of the holy rosary, and in recent years it has become a time when christians congregate ever more fervently to offer pr...
The Catholic Herald
How to pray when you don't feel like it
i remember a faithful, prayerful person telling me that late in her life she had realised that whenever she began to pray, in her imaginatio...
Fr Dominic Allain
If we attend to our vocations, God will give us every grace we need
on the 28th ordinary sunday, you could have the chance to hear a lovely collect sung in latin. it has been chanted for centuries on the 16th...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Let's surrender our divisions to the Lord's healing
the 28th sunday of the year 2 kgs 5:14-17; 2 tim 2 8-13; lk 17:11-19 (year c) "all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our god....
Bishop David McGough
If you don't like Mozart, go and watch a football match
rough ideas by stephen hough faber, 464pp, £18.99/$21.46 stephen hough is famous for a lot of things, mostly to do with playing the piano. h...
Michael White
A new history of Christianity that upends Edward Gibbon
dominion by tom holland little, brown, 624pp, £25/$32 the romans are the most “epic” figures in history, as my son says about anything aweso...
Ed West
What Elgar had in common with the creator of Gerontius
sir edward elgar (1857-1934) is often caricatured as an establishment figure, while in truth he was a sensitive outsider. born near worceste...
Peter Davison
The anti-Catholic bigot who provoked a spiritual masterpiece
in 1863 john henry newman was sent a copy of an article that attacked his character. it had been written by charles kingsley, the popular no...
The Catholic Herald
Letters: Muslims are looking to bishops for support on sex education
muslim community is looking to bishops sir – professor david paton’s warning to catholic bishops to support parents in standing up to state ...
The Catholic Herald
The glory and the awkwardness of Newman's first trip to Rome after his conversion
when john henry newman travels to rome as the church’s most famous convert in october 1846, the vatican offers him a freshly decorated apart...
David Twiston Davies
'Ignorance imperils our democracy': College presidents on the mission of education
as students get settled in during these first few weeks on campus, new catholic college presidents are adjusting too. i recently spoke to th...
Kelly Salomon
Newman's consoling wisdom
what does john henry newman mean to ordinary catholics today? his intellectual works, such as his great tome the idea of a university or eve...
Mary Kenny
How Ireland changed Newman
while john henry newman is regarded as the most english of saints, his story is intimately connected to ireland. it is perhaps inevitable th...
The Catholic Herald
The courtroom hug that showed Christianity in action
i can entirely understand why some people thought brandt jean shouldn’t forgive amber guyger. guyger killed his brother. on september 6, 201...
Tim Stanley
The saint whose life was 'a history of failures'
john henry newman’s life can well be described as one of continual failures, if only because that was how he saw it. “all through life thing...
Fr Ian Ker
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