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God is in the details – especially when we don't like them
our collect for the 21st sunday of ordinary time asks god to grant that his will, not this world’s snares, be the basis of our lives, and in...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
God can't be known through casual acquaintance
the 21st sunday of the year is 66:18-21; heb 12:5-7 & 11-13; lk 13:22-30 (year c) the book of isaiah concludes with a vision of unsurpas...
Bishop David McGough
Don't try to pigeonhole Cardinal Müller
i will not describe cardinal gerhard müller, formerly prefect of the congregation for the doctrine of the faith, as a “conservative” cardina...
Francis Phillips
Christina Rossetti brought together theology and ecology
christina rossetti by emma mason oup, 240pp, £30/$39.95 devotional victorian poets understood the particularities of nature as manifestation...
Rebekah Lamb
The 500-year-old book that overwhelms its owners
the lost gutenberg by margaret davis atlantic, 304pp, £16.99/$27 what has been nicknamed “the commode”, “the whale” and “#45”? those of you ...
Matt Thorne
Finzi's choral works: from sorrow to the sublime
melancholy lingers about much of gerald finzi’s oeuvre. the sadness of his early life contributed, as did his later ill health. finzi’s musi...
Francis O’Gorman
Finzi: A composer who sensed a deeper purpose beyond suffering
the composer gerald finzi (1901-56) was shy, modest and sensitive. descended on his father’s side from italian jews, the finzis were otherwi...
Peter Davison
Letters: Do we treat our churches with the respect they deserve?
we need to get our own house in order sir – matthew schmitz (cover story, august 9) asks how it is that when our churches are desecrated, th...
The Catholic Herald
How to go on a 'digital retreat'
asceticism has always been a key component of catholic spirituality. following the example of its founder, jesus christ, catholicism has alw...
The Catholic Herald
Funeral eulogies? Save it for the wake
a priest in county cork has caused ripples by deploring the nature of some of the gifts brought to the altar during a funeral mass. these, s...
Mary Kenny
The anti-clerical poet who inspired conversions to Catholicism
how should one evaluate the relationship of a poet with the church, when his verse is either obscure or plainly hostile to organised religio...
Benjamin Ivry
Some churchmen are embarrassed by their authority. Not Francis
in 1981, john paul ii released familiaris consortio, a document which stated that unless the divorced and remarried abstain from sex, admitt...
Matthew Schmitz
The question no Catholic can avoid
the lutheran pastor and humorist hans fiene recently remarked “the most obnoxious protestants in the world are liberal boomer catholics.” th...
C C Pecknold
'No one enjoys their first glass of beer': Cardinal Hume's advice on prayer
to answer the question, “why does cardinal basil hume’s spirituality still speak to people today?”, i remember something he once told the pr...
The Catholic Herald
How John Paul II's great encyclical is being erased from history
at the heart of the controversy over the dismantling of the john paul ii institute in rome is the effective sacking of two leading moral the...
Fr Raymond de Souza
The Viganò affair has revealed the depth of the Church's crisis
a year ago, archbishop carlo maria viganò was a retired diplomat who was little known beyond the limited world of vaticanologists. he had re...
Fr Mark Drew
Diary: Newman's failures make him an ideal patron for students
at last, newman house university chaplaincy has gone contactless. we still pass the money bags around at mass, as if following a half-rememb...
Fr Stephen Wang
Argentina: Where did it all go wrong?
few things in the realms of the human psyche can prove quite so traumatising as the loss of a high status once enjoyed. the history of argen...
Andrew Cusack
What it means to be an American Catholic
what is america? is it a land, molded by geology and industry, and pregnant with legend? is it a people, shaped by a common history and a sh...
Brandon McGinley
Why a parishioner uprising in Portland backfired
the sight of a dozen elderly, white, progressive catholics singing “we shall overcome” as they protested against an african priest who threw...
Jordan Bloom
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