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Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week i sunday, july 28 : 17th sunday in ordinary time gn 18:20-32; ps 138; col 2:12-14; lk 11:1-13 mon...
The Catholic Herald
How to … Practice Ignatian discernment
st ignatius of loyola, whose feast is celebrated by the catholic church on july 31, is famous principally for founding the society of jesus,...
The Catholic Herald
Our mental health services are vital – but they have their limitations
it is often said that we take our health for granted until something happens to it. i think this is never more the case than with mental hea...
Fr Dominic Allain
You can't win the spiritual battle without discipline
on the 17th ordinary sunday the collect for holy mass once again presents military imagery. it’s as if our holy mother were trying to make a...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
A refreshing guide to an 'objectively superior' way of life
a living sacrifice by fr benedict croell op and fr andrew hofer op vianney vocations, 277pp, £20/$22 the evening before basil hume’s funeral...
The Catholic Herald
The novelist who defied a spirit-crushing system to achieve greatness
vasily grossman and the soviet century by alexandra popoff yale university press, 424pp, £25/$32.50 vasily grossman is one of the tower...
Thelma Lovell
The Catholic doctor whose ruse saved Jewish lives
the documentary-maker stephen edwards’s most distinguished musical work is the score for his requiem for my mother (2017). the requiem was p...
Deal Hudson
Christopher Koch: A novelist for an age with no answers
the catholic imagination of christopher koch, the australian novelist most remembered for the year of living dangerously (1978),&n...
Karl Schmude
Letters & emails
why we dare to call god ‘father’ sir – steve larkin (charterhouse, july 5) reminds us that fr frederick faber used to speak of our lady as “...
The Catholic Herald
I was wrong about golf
shamefully, i had long been prejudiced against golf and golfers, and was amused when someone described the game as “a good walk spoiled...
Mary Kenny
Was the original Walsingham statue really destroyed – or is it in the V&A?
in 1539 the simple wooden statue of our lady of walsingham that stood beside the altar of walsingham’s holy house, venerated by kings, ...
The Catholic Herald
Which America?
earlier this month, a conference on “national conservatism” in washington, dc, showed that the terms of debate on the american right are cha...
Matthew Schmitz
What Leana Wen didn't know
last week, the department of health and human services announced that clinics referring mothers for abortion services would no longer be abl...
C C Pecknold
What I discovered when I wrote a play about Cherie Blair
as a catholic, i’ve always been fascinated by cherie blair, who was born in 1954 and raised in crosby, a suburb of liverpool with a long-sta...
The Catholic Herald
The inexplicable transfer of St Peter's relics to Constantinople
the decision to send the relics of st peter from the private chapel of the papal apartment to the ecumenical patriarchate of constantin...
Fr Raymond de Souza
'You ask them: Are you serious?': An interview with Cardinal Arinze
it’s a sunny morning in london on the feast of corpus christi and, not coincidentally, i’m standing outside the presbytery of corp...
Dan Hitchens
Diary: The moment I knew I had to be Catholic
in the spring of 2011, i had everything planned out. i was heading to italy for a six-week study abroad programme. my primary goal was to en...
The Catholic Herald
The cardinal struggling to quell a priestly rebellion
the syro-malabar catholic church is in fresh turmoil this week, after its leader faced protests over fraud allegations against him. car...
Saptarshi Ray
Iraqi immigrants supported Trump. So why is his administration deporting them?
poor st thomas is the only apostle remembered not for his faith, but for his doubt. and yet, having placed his hands in christ’s wounds...
Michael Warren Davis
Planned Parenthood's nightmare month
planned parenthood has had a bad month. its president left the organisation last week after serving for less than a year, the trump administ...
Jordan Bloom
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