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How a film about the Armenian Genocide faced a Turkish backlash
The Promise has been denigrated online and even seen a rival film produced to counter it
Jake Coyle
Comments of the week
the meaning of easter in an eggshell sir – the thing about easter egg hunts (news focus, april 14) is that they are grounded in the symbolic...
The Catholic Herald
The grime king who is ‘blinded by grace’
like many catholics of my age, the “home turf” of my liturgical music taste is of a rather traditional bent. my wife and i got married to th...
Jacob Phillips
Television: Doctor Who? It’s more like EastEnders in space
doctor who is showing his age. his ratings are down; critics are bored. the problem is this. classic who, which ran from 1963 to 1989, reinv...
Tim Stanley
Fine art: Tiny masterpieces as splendid as any Botticelli
most of our encounters with the religious art of renaissance italy are made in either churches or galleries. all too easily we ignore the br...
Jonathan Keates
Music: The snazzy choir that lacks substance
st john’s, smith square used to be a venue with a questionable future, with occasionally fewer people in the audience than on the platform. ...
Michael White
Film: The Promise
the genocide of armenians by the ottomans from 1915 to 1923 claimed the lives of more than 1.5 million men, women and children. it’s a black...
Will Gore
A visitor’s guide to the Catholic theological zoo
catholic theology by tracey rowland, bloomsbury t&t clark, £14.99 catholic theology introduces the catholic tradition by focusing on “fo...
Carl E Olson
A Christian defends secular humanism
god created humanism: the christian basis of secular values by theo hobson, spck, £16.99 theo hobson wants to get a couple of things straigh...
Michael Duggan
The Gulag’s horrors from the other side
the diary of a gulag prison guard by ivan chistyakov, granta, £14.99 the value of this diary lies in the fact that although there are numero...
Charlie Hegarty
Omnium Gatherum
the mighty foe of arians, st athanasius of alexandria (d 373), bishop and doctor of the church, is celebrated on may 2 in both the newer and...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Word this week
the third sunday of easter acts 2: 14, 22-3; 1 pet 1:17-21; lk 24:13-35 (year a) luke’s account of the appearance of the risen lord to his d...
Bishop David McGough
Lectio Divina
third sunday of easter: luke 24:13-35 13 on that same day two of jesus’s followers were going to a village named emmaus, about seven miles f...
Mgr Anthony Abela
Saint of the week: Gianna Beretta Molla (April 28)
dreams of brazil gianna beretta molla was born on october 4, 1922. in 1942 she began studying medicine in milan and was a member of the st v...
Staff Reporter
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week iii sunday, april 30: third sunday of easter acts 2:14, 22-33; ps 16; 1 pet 1:17-21; lk 24:13-35 monday, ma...
The Catholic Herald
Pastor Iuventus
the romance of a cloistered easter as the easter octave comes to an end, it is with a kind of reflexive surprise that i realise that this is...
Pastor Iuventus
Pictures of the week
1 old amplefordians after reaching the final of the halford hewitt public schools’ golf tournament at royal cinque ports golf club in deal, ...
The Catholic Herald
Prize crossword 0488
cryptic across 1 in jordan on every level, primarily, there’s a visionary (4) 3 patriarch as rich as poor sibling 18 (8) 9 one of a parallel...
Alun Evans
Pope Francis delivers surprise speech to TED conference
'No one is an island,' the Pope told the conference via a video message
Staff Reporter
Sir Michael Tugendhat: Why 1922 offers a clue to Brexit
in 1801 the kingdom of ireland became part of the united kingdom of great britain. in 1922 it withdrew from the union. the events leading up...
Sir Michael Tugendhat
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