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Meanwhile: Where Coco learned to concentrate
the 15-year-old tennis player coco gauff captivated wimbledon – and the world – with a brilliant debut performance which took her to the fou...
Staff writers
The best of the web: Hilary Mantel, a brave father, and Salvini
how st thomas more lost his reputation the iona institute published a talk it recently hosted, by richard rex, professor of reformation hist...
Staff writers
The week ahead: Sea Sunday, Crystal Cathedral, Carmelite Comeback
this sunday, july 14, is sea sunday in britain, a day when christians pray for seafarers. the catholic charity apostleship of the sea has re...
Staff writers
Overlooked: Viganò alleges Vatican scandal 'surpassing McCarrick'
what happened? archbishop carlo maria viganò has made new allegations against senior vatican officials. the former vatican nuncio to the uni...
Staff writers
The big story: Report calls for sanctions on persecutors of Christians
what happened? the british government should consider imposing sanctions on countries that persecute christians, and adopt a definition of a...
Staff writers
What's stopping Pope Francis going to Moscow?
there is one man who always keeps the holy father waiting. three times in a row now he has arrived conspicuously late for a private audience...
The Catholic Herald
July 12, 2019
The Catholic Herald
Every generation needs to hear the lives of the saints
each year, i write a column sharing with readers the title and a brief synopsis of the 10 books that touched me most that year. occasionally...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
The man who brought Italian piety to London
catholic piety is far too wide a topic for me to say anything particularly useful about it in general. in any case, my experience of it in s...
Steve Larkin
Heretic of the week: Joseph Campbell
joseph campbell (1904-1987) is considered by many today – particularly those of a new age bent – to be something of a prophet. certainly, hi...
Charles Coulombe
Prize crossword 0600
cryptic across 5 city of macedonia in amos philip rebuilt (10) 7 jerahmeel’s significant other one sailor’s taken to hospital (6) 8 mix-up s...
Alun Evans
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week ii sunday, july 7 : 14th sunday in ordinary time is 66:10-14c; ps 66; gal 6:14-18; lk 10:1-12, 17...
The Catholic Herald
How to… become a papal knight
the five categories of papal knighthood are, in descending rank, the supreme order of christ, the order of the golden spur, the order of piu...
The Catholic Herald
What grace and weight loss have in common
on the feast of ss peter and paul i celebrated the 20th anniversary of my ordination to the sacred priesthood. not a huge milestone perhaps,...
Fr Dominic Allain
The pure joy of the Visitation
in our traditional roman liturgical calendar, july 2 (the conclusion of the long-suppressed octave of john the baptist) is the feast of the ...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
In Christ we find a tenderness beyond our imagining
fourteenth sunday of the year is 66:10-14; gal 6:14-18; lk 10:1-12 & 17-20 (year c) "rejoice for jerusalem. rejoice for her, all you who...
Bishop David McGough
Auberon Waugh's provocative wine reviews just get better with age
waugh on wine by auberon waugh quartet, 180pp, £10/$13 though auberon waugh (bron to his friends) sometimes remarked that journalism was to ...
David Platzer
How did the 'religion of humanity' replace Christianity?
the idol of our age by daniel j mahoney encounter books, 184pp, £17.99/$15.90 one of the most famous passages in modern literature is fyodor...
Alexandra Hudson
Chernobyl is a mesmerising indictment of a culture of lies
in his 1970 nobel prize speech, aleksandr solzhenitsyn said: “those works of art which have scooped up the truth and presented it to us as a...
Andrew Petiprin
George Lloyd: The broken man who created healing music
the british composer george lloyd, who died more than 20 years ago, remains a neglected figure. he had the misfortune to live through the po...
Peter Davison
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