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Colin Brazier: Facebook doesn’t know you’re dead
last month facebook sent me an email to remind me that it was ken’s birthday. a delightful man, ken. right up to his death, two years ago. t...
Colin Brazier
The Cross ISIS couldn't destroy
returning to england after a few days in iraq, it is the sound of broken glass and rubble, crunching underfoot in one of the many destroyed ...
Fr Benedict Kiely
William Cash: How to dodge that EU divorce bill
some myths need to be cleared up about the reported £61 billion “divorce bill” that brussels hopes to force britain to pay before its depart...
William Cash
On the road
my favourite of the eastertide gospels is luke’s account of the disciples on the road to emmaus. it appears at first to be the sort of thing...
Anthony Esolen
Richard Ingrams: The Gospels as journalism
hearing the traditional easter gospel reading (john 20) always reminds me of graham greene’s reaction to it – that it is reportage, a factua...
Richard Ingrams
Mary Kenny: Let's raise statues to Christian feminists
the decision to raise a statue to dame millicent fawcett, the campaigner for votes for women, in london’s parliament square (where there are...
Mary Kenny
Motor neurone disease sufferer wins right to challenge law on assisted suicide
Noel Conway initially lost his case last month to bring about a judicial review of the law
Staff Reporter
Comments of the week
two encyclicals that changed the world sir – your leading article commemorating the 50th anniversary of populorum progressio (march 31) sugg...
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The Mass Henry heard after dispatching More
in the small, dark chapel of a 16th-century country house a priest is saying mass, using the latin rite that in a few years’ time will be a ...
Michael White
Television: Prudish Waugh would approve of this Decline
the genius of evelyn waugh was his ability to be both moral and malicious, to find joy in just how wicked we really are. decline and fall (f...
Tim Stanley
Music: The choir that makes Luther sound charming
readers of the catholic herald are unlikely to be overcome with enthusiasm for the quincentenary of the reformation, which occurs this year....
Michael White
Fine art: The Venetian upstart who took on Raphael
the raising of lazarus, painted by sebastiano luciani (1485-1547) – known after 1531 as sebastiano del piombo, when pope clement vii gave hi...
David Scrase
The sign that gives hope to every generation
the cross by robin m jensen, harvard, £25 the cross of jesus christ, his passion and death, is at the heart of the christian faith. the sign...
Paul Senz
Why the Gospel made sense to pagans
the dawn of christianity by robert knapp, profile books, £25 the extraordinary success of the christian religion, growing from a small group...
Piers Paul Read
Priests, prisoners and unhappy marriages
the church cannot remain silent by oscar romero, orbis, £14.99 during his time as archbishop of san salvador, oscar romero received a predic...
Jonathan Wright
Omnium Gatherum
having completed our 40-day lenten observance, with its good confession and penances, we come to the liturgical year’s zenith, easter sunday...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Word this week
easter sunday acts 10:34 & 37-43; col 3:1-4; jn 20:1-9 (year a) ‘they killed him by hanging him on a tree, yet three days afterwards god...
Bishop David McGough
Lectio Divina
easter sunday: matthew 28:1-10 1 after the sabbath, as sunday morning was dawning, mary magdalene and the other mary went to look at the tom...
Mgr Anthony Abela
Saint of the week: Bernadette (April 16)
visions of a ‘lady’ st bernadette was born in lourdes on january 7, 1844 to impoverished parents. she was the first of nine children and suf...
Staff Reporter
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week i sunday, april 16: easter sunday acts 10:34a, 37-43; ps 118; col 3:1-4; jn 20:1-9 monday, april 17: easter...
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