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Pope Francis calls Syrian chemical attack 'an unacceptable massacre'

The Pope made the comments at his general audience

Spiritual books round-up

what jesus saw from the cross by ag sertillanges, sophia institute press, £12 this beautiful series of reflections and meditations, first pu...

Francis Phillips

Music: The playful genius of Britain's hot property

new concert music gets such scant attention nowadays that travellers on the clapham omnibus would struggle, i suspect, to name a living brit...

Michael White

Theatre: Tennant’s Don Juan: resistance is futile

having just seen sean foley’s ghastly sledgehammer approach to molière’s the miser at garrick theatre, it was particularly pleasing to see p...

Robert Tanitch

Catholic group calls on Congress to support refugee resettlement

The Franciscan Action Network sent a signed by 4.000 people to every US senator, member of Congress and President Donald Trump

Rhina Guidos

Television: Thriller that sends us to bed with shaking bones

i hate it when people describe television as a rollercoaster ride, but there is one sense in which line of duty (bbc one, sundays 9pm) fits ...

Tim Stanley

Film: A voice for civil rights that can still mesmerise

in 1979, the black american author james baldwin wrote to his publisher proposing a book called remember this house, a personal memoir of th...

Jenny McCartney

The secret place where opera flourishes

if there’s a catalogue of all the theatres that exist in london, i don’t know of it. but there are more than you’d expect, in sometimes hidd...

Michael White

Comments of the week

the papal defenders of the jewish people sir – joseph bottum, who co-edited the pius war (2004), an exhaustive study of a mass of publi...

The Catholic Herald

The cross is a sign of God's love, not a piece of jewellery to show off, says Pope Francis

Francis said the cross is a symbol of 'the power of God who made himself sin to heal us'

Rhina Guidos

Mary Kenny: The unlikely rise of the pro-life movie

ideas are often much more powerfully transmitted through stories, culture and narratives of personal experience than through facts or polemi...

Mary Kenny

The Domino’s effect

although few people in britain will know the name of tom monaghan, there are fewer still who will not know the name of domino’s pizza, the g...

Joseph Pearce

Lenten reflection: Jesus was more than a ‘nice guy’

palm sunday mt 21:1-11; is 50:4-7; ps 22; phil 2:6-11; mt 26:14-27:66 if you ever pay a visit to the scottish national gallery on edinburgh’...

Archbishop Leo Cushley

Science and faith: The Greek prophet of the Gospel

when cardinal joseph ratzinger spoke to his fellow bishops on the subject of conscience and law in 1991, he referred to socrates, the pagan,...

Quentin de la Bedoyere

A survivalist’s guide to Holy Week

a tiny curl of flame rises from the small heap of birch bark. my sore fingers fumbling in haste, i feed it with curls of bark, my face inche...

Corinna Turner

Rise of the urban ‘monks’

nestled within a massed array of administrative buildings and banks in the city of london is the so-called “new monastic” church of st mary ...

Sam Hickford

A thriving Church amid the tragedy

to describe the church i was born and raised in, i need to start with the missionaries who risked their very lives to bring us the gospel. i...

Obianuju Ekeocha

'When the caliphate came...'

‘there is just too much to care about” is a response of many people in our news-saturated world. for many christians, in their charitable gi...

Douglas Murray

Harry Mount: The delightful oddness of Gibraltar

no, we won’t go to war with spain over gibraltar, whatever michael howard says. spain can’t afford it – and only 187 of the rock’s 30,000 in...

Harry Mount

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