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The week in quotations
"it is necessary not only to eliminate the nuclear threat by abolishing nuclear weapons, but at the same time to make all people richer in a...
Staff writers
Meanwhile: Incense shortage?
bad news for sacristans this week: we could be facing an incense crisis, as the number of boswellia trees plummets. as a report in the churc...
Staff writers
The best of the web: Cathedrals, the Elgin Marbles, and junk news
what cathedral installations reveal at father ed’s blog, fr ed tomlinson asked why anglican cathedrals are putting tourist attractions in th...
Staff writers
The week ahead: St Monica, passion play, Divine Mercy
august 27 is the feast of st monica, the mother of st augustine, whose prayers did so much to bring about his conversion. the diocese of wil...
Staff writers
Overlooked: Renewed pressure on Chinese priests
what happened? chinese clergy are coming under renewed pressure, despite the vatican’s attempts to find a middle ground, according to report...
Staff writers
The big story: US deportee dies in Iraq
what happened? jimmy aldaoud, a catholic who was deported to iraq despite never having lived there and speaking no arabic, has been found de...
Staff writers
August 16, 2019
The Catholic Herald
Divine understanding
we often hear biblical scholars speak of god’s self-emptying in the incarnation, of christ’s burying himself into anonymity, and of god’s pa...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
The Catholic naval hero descended from St Thomas More
today he is little remembered. but admiral sir henry harwood made a crucial early contribution during the second world war: he injected a vi...
David Twiston Davies
Heretic of the week: Dolores Ibarruri
dolores ibarruri (1895-1989) – better known as la pasionaria – was an icon to the communists and socialists of the 1936-39 spanish civil war...
Charles Coulombe
Prize crossword 0605
cryptic across 7 house within diocese is retro brown (6) 8 nice fathers sacked in gorbachev’s plan for russian transport (6) 9 joint effort ...
Alun Evans
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week iii sunday, august 11 : 19th sunday in ordinary time wis 18:6-9; ps 33; heb 11:1-2, 8-19; lk 12:3...
The Catholic Herald
How to… Understand the Assumption
the assumption of the blessed virgin mary has always been a teaching within the tradition of the catholic church and the orthodox church, wh...
The Catholic Herald
What I learned from celebrating Mass in the Ordinariate Use
i am a priest of the personal ordinariate of our lady of walsingham, having been part of the first group of former anglican clergy to be ord...
Fr Matthew Pittam
The audacity of Holy Communion
early this week we literally observe the “tears of st lawrence”, the annual perseid meteor shower which hovers over that mighty deacon’s fea...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Like Abraham, we are in search of our homeland
the 19th sunday of the year wis 18:6-9; heb 11:1-2 & 8-19; lk 12:32-48 (year c) "our soul is waiting for the lord. the lord is our help ...
Bishop David McGough
What remains of the 'Protestant work ethic' theory?
the wealth of religions edited by rachel mccleary and robert barro princeton, 160pp, £24/$29.95 i can only assume that i am the target of an...
Jonathan Wright
Olivier Roy: an impartial observer of Europe's crises
is europe christian? by olivier roy hurst, 112pp, £14.99/$19.99 everything seems to be about identity these days: politics, culture – even r...
Samuel Gregg
Russell Kirk's fiction is unjustly ignored
the writings of catholic convert russell kirk exert no more than a marginal influence outside of limited circles, which is a common cause fo...
James Baresel
Letters: Being 'born again' cannot just be an emotional experience
to be born again, we need sacraments sir – with the greatest respect, i have to differ quite sharply from fr rolheiser’s article on the mean...
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