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Find Mass boring? Good!
as citizens of late modern life, we seek to avoid boredom. we alleviate the stillness of a quiet moment by turning to our smartphones. we de...
Timothy O'Malley
Why is the Home Office turning priests away?
a catholic mp, carol monaghan, appeared at a committee meeting on ash wednesday with a cross on her forehead. she had, of course, been to ma...
Ann Widdecombe
Finding the hidden streams of spirituality
the third sunday of lent ex 17:3-7; ps 95; rom 5:1-2, 5-8; jn 4:5-42 recently, i read an article about benedict xvi’s visit to britain in se...
Bishop Philip Egan
Splitting hairs over SS-GB
is there a surer sign that a middle-aged man has morphed into a fogey than the sight of him shouting at the television? sunday evening is wh...
Colin Brazier
When the circus comes to Rome
last month the circus came to the vatican. during pope francis’s weekly general audience, magicians, clowns and acrobats performed on the st...
Thomas J Craughwell
Mary Kenny: Ireland hits peak anti-Catholicism
ireland has been in a state of turmoil following the discovery of nearly 800 infant remains in a mass grave at tuam, county galway. the babi...
Mary Kenny
Comments of the Week
why i stand by my book hitler’s pope sir – in his article on pius xii (cover story, march 10), fr leo chamberlain comments that my book hitl...
The Catholic Herald
Film: A tear-jerking road movie for the age of austerity
icíar bollaín and paul laverty, a tight-knit duo with close links to ken loach, respectively direct and write the screenplay of the olive tr...
Miguel Cullen
Television: In Broadchurch no one looks innocent
there’s quite a lot wrong with broadchurch (itv, mondays 9pm), the whodunnit set in a village of the damned on the english coast. it’s a vil...
Tim Stanley
Fine art: Why Britain loves American Gothic
grant wood’s american gothic is among the most acerbic of the paintings at the america after the fall exhibition (at the royal academy until...
Miguel Cullen
Music: The trouble with reducing Shakespeare
according to the statistics, there are more operas based on shakespeare than on the work of any other single writer – a clear case of compos...
Michael White
Who shot the bullet that killed Oscar Romero?
assassination of a saint by matt eisenbrandt, university of california, £18.99 he was born on the feast of the assumption, august 15, 1917 –...
Julian Filochowski
Spiritual books round-up
the catholic table, by emily stimpson chapman, emmaus road publishing, £18.99 this book should be read by everyone who has ever thought abou...
Francis Phillips
A millennium of converting bigwigs
missionary monks by edward smither, cascade books, £20 it’s easy to presuppose a sharp division between globe-trotting missionaries and cloi...
Jonathan Wright
Briefly noted
escape routes by johann christoph arnold (plough publishing, £9.99) . first published 15 years ago, this thoughtful book by a well-known pas...
Staff writers
Longest-serving priest in Toronto Archdiocese dies at 101
Mgr Vincent Foy was ordained a priest in 1939 and served the priesthood for 78 years
Catholic News Service
Lectio Divina
third sunday of lent: john 4:5-15, 25-26, 39, 41-42* 5 in samaria he came to a town named sychar, which was not far from the field that jaco...
Mgr Anthony Abela
Saint of the week: St Joseph (transferred to March 20)
the carpenter st joseph is one of the most beloved and revered saints in the catholic church and all knowledge about his life stems from scr...
Staff Reporter
Pastor Iuventus
scapulis suis obumbrabit tibi. “he will conceal you with his pinions and under his wings you will refuge” is the full text. i’ve heard the c...
Pastor Iuventus
Pictures of the week
1 students from the university of chester have made a pilgrimage to rome carrying a cross carved from the driftwood of refugee boats. 2 a di...
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