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How can Good Friday be 'good'?
good friday was bad long before it was good, at least from outward appearances. god was being crucified by all that can go bad in the world:...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
TA Pascoe: The war that spawned a childish generation
"it’s difficult to say ‘thy will be done’, but god plans all these things for the best, so i must be brave, along with other mothers and wiv...
T A Pascoe
A hidden slaughter: Meeting Nigeria's endangered Christians
Why is their plight of so little interest to the wider world?
Douglas Murray
Prize crossword 0485
cryptic across 5 hair we first cut to become monks (11) 7 shandy he invented when on serious drugs (6) 8 to bug military intelligence is to ...
Alun Evans
Pictures of the week
1 franciscan friars of the renewal visit st george’s catholic primary school in sudbury, middlesex, during a parish mission. 2 students at l...
The Catholic Herald
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week ii sunday, april 9: palm sunday mt 21:1-11; is 50:4-7; ps 22; phil 2:6-11; mt 26:14-27:66 monday, april 10 ...
The Catholic Herald
Pastor Iuventus
the collapse of a confident church it is passiontide and autumn. i am in australia, “the great southern land of the holy spirit”, as benedic...
Pastor Iuventus
Lectio Divina
palm sunday: matthew 21:1-11 1 as jesus and his disciples approached jerusalem, they came to bethphage at the mount of olives. there jesus s...
Mgr Anthony Abela
Saint of the week Gemma Galgani (April 11)
mother to her siblings st gemma galgani was born on march 12, 1878 in a small italian town near lucca in tuscany. her mother died when she w...
Staff Reporter
Omnium Gatherum
we enter on palm sunday the last throes of holy church’s liturgical glory and self-emptying before her death during the sacred triduum and h...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Word This Week
palm sunday is 50: 4-7; phil 2:6-11; mt 26:14-27 (year a) and when jesus entered jerusalem, the whole city was in turmoil. ‘who is this?’ pe...
Bishop David McGough
The Bible-bashing founding fathers
reading the bible with the founding fathers by daniel dreisbach, oup, £20 talk to the wrong american political pundit and you may come away ...
Jonathan Wright
Pope Francis calls Syrian chemical attack 'an unacceptable massacre'
The Pope made the comments at his general audience
Associated Press
Spiritual books round-up
what jesus saw from the cross by ag sertillanges, sophia institute press, £12 this beautiful series of reflections and meditations, first pu...
Francis Phillips
Music: The playful genius of Britain's hot property
new concert music gets such scant attention nowadays that travellers on the clapham omnibus would struggle, i suspect, to name a living brit...
Michael White
Theatre: Tennant’s Don Juan: resistance is futile
having just seen sean foley’s ghastly sledgehammer approach to molière’s the miser at garrick theatre, it was particularly pleasing to see p...
Robert Tanitch
Catholic group calls on Congress to support refugee resettlement
The Franciscan Action Network sent a signed by 4.000 people to every US senator, member of Congress and President Donald Trump
Rhina Guidos
Television: Thriller that sends us to bed with shaking bones
i hate it when people describe television as a rollercoaster ride, but there is one sense in which line of duty (bbc one, sundays 9pm) fits ...
Tim Stanley
Film: A voice for civil rights that can still mesmerise
in 1979, the black american author james baldwin wrote to his publisher proposing a book called remember this house, a personal memoir of th...
Jenny McCartney
The secret place where opera flourishes
if there’s a catalogue of all the theatres that exist in london, i don’t know of it. but there are more than you’d expect, in sometimes hidd...
Michael White
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