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The book about love and loss that everyone should read
jesus says that if we follow him the cross will find us. that message is chronically misunderstood. maybe we would understand it better if j...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
How I wrote a symphony about the Holy Spirit
i was an undergraduate in edinburgh way back in the late 1970s. among the reasons i went there was the opportunity to study composition with...
Sir James MacMillan
Heretic of the week: Miguel de Molinos
miguel de molinos (1628-1696) was a spanish priest renowned as the founder of the quietist heresy. trained at a jesuit school and ordained i...
Charles Coulombe
Prize crossword 0609
cryptic across 5 chap in desert mob checked for jerusalem court (9) 8 authorized version, in jude, it’s odd in there’s a sense that it’s bee...
Alun Evans
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week iii sunday, september 8 : 23rd sunday in ordinary time wis 9:13-18b; ps 90; phmn 9-10, 12-17; lk 14:25-33 m...
The Catholic Herald
How to… Observe Ember Days
the ember days are four sets of three seasonal days of prayer, fasting and abstinence. they fall equidistant in the cycle of the year and ea...
The Catholic Herald
The Amazon fires are a good metaphor for today's Church
the media is full of apocalyptic news of fires in the “lungs” of the world and discussion of the bleak future we face if this unprecedented ...
Fr Dominic Allain
What it means to be God's adopted children
the collect for the 23rd ordinary sunday was not in any pre-conciliar edition of the roman missal, but it was in the 8th-century gelasian sa...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Inside Demmin: the town that could not go on living
promise me you’ll shoot yourself by florian huber allen lane, 304pp, £20/$24 this is an inauspicious title for a thought-provoking book. its...
Charlie Hegarty
The shadowy eggheads who transformed warfare
under every leaf by william beaver biteback, 340pp, £9.99/$14.95 most students of history will be familiar with the enormous extension of eu...
Patrick West
Frederick II clashed with the Pope, but he was no secularist
the two powers by brett edward whalen university of pennsylvania press, 328pp, £70/$80 pope gregory ix (1227-1241) may not be among the most...
James Baresel
Does anyone know how to end religious violence?
confronting religious violence edited by richard a burridge and jonathan sacks scm press, 280pp, £25/$29.95 how do you solve a problem like ...
Jonathan Wright
Have Christians taken over DC? A Netflix documentary thinks so
as netflix originals’ the family tells it, the national prayer breakfast held annually in washington, dc, is the brainchild of a decades-old...
Carl Curtis
The Catholic writer who was Canada's answer to Thomas Hardy
born in north battleford, saskatchewan, to gaelic-speaking parents from cape breton, nova scotia, alistair macleod returned with his family ...
David Staines
Letters: The case for canonising 'the saint of mass media'
the case for canonising ‘st mugg’ sir – with the apparent demise of the cause of gk chesterton (week in review, august 9) is it not time to ...
The Catholic Herald
The strange allure of Marianne Williamson
the democratic primary is what might be generously called a clown show. there are candidates with a serious chance of winning the nomination...
Steve Larkin
Once they were dens of iniquity. Now they're community lifelines
one of the more amusing aspects of growing older is to observe the reversals of history and the shifting of concepts. how piquant to see chi...
Mary Kenny
A beginner's guide to the works of John Henry Newman
even by victorian standards, john henry cardinal newman was a prolific writer. he wrote and published in many genres, from the controversial...
The Catholic Herald
The Church used to have a powerful economic voice. What went wrong?
one hundred years ago, the national catholic war council, the predecessor of today’s us conference of catholic bishops, issued a “program fo...
Matthew Schmitz
Don't be afraid of Thomism
modern theologians, especially in the post-war period, often spoke as though the catholic church would have to change in order to maintain r...
C C Pecknold
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