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Overlooked: Sri Lankan cardinal – government could have stopped attacks
what happened? the sri lankan government could have stopped the easter sunday attacks which killed over 250 people in colombo, negombo and ...
Staff writers
The big story: Synod document intensifies celibacy debate
what happened? the working document for october’s amazon synod has continued to provoke debate, especially over the possibility of new excep...
Staff writers
Sacking and silencing: what happens when you defy Britain's new dogmas
anyone who believes that britain is still a free country should look at the case of richard page, a magistrate sacked for holding an opinion...
The Catholic Herald
June 28, 2019
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Ecumenical relations
the question of intercommunion within our churches today is a big one, an important one and a painful one. i’m old enough to remember anothe...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Why doesn't anybody look old anymore?
thoughts of ageing press into my mind as i approach 50. university contemporaries are starting to fall ill. high blood pressure, hernia, eve...
Andrew M Brown
Heretic of the week: Arthur Conan Doyle
sir arthur conan doyle (1859-1930) was a physician and writer, renowned for creating the immortal detective sherlock holmes. less well known...
Charles Coulombe
Prize crossword 0598
cryptic across 5 one in the habit of scaling cornwall’s southernmost point (6) 7 israel has what follows a sound backing with university inp...
Alun Evans
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week iv sunday, june 23 : most holy body and blood of the lord gn 14:18-20; ps 110; 1 cor 11:23-26; lk 9:11...
The Catholic Herald
How to… Celebrate Corpus Christi
the feast of the most holy body and blood of christ, still often referred to by its shorter latin name of corpus christi, has benefited in r...
The Catholic Herald
Prayer should be for its own sake, not for reward
as i wait for interminable minutes on the car insurance helpline, i recognise that the muzak playing is the sound of silence. is this irony,...
Fr Dominic Allain
Little devotions help us become better Catholics
in the 13th century a priest on pilgrimage to rome was suffering doubts about the eucharist. during a mass his host become flesh and bled up...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
The Eucharist is both destination and sustenance
the body and blood of christ gen 14:18-20; 1 cor 11:23-26; lk 9:11-17 (year c) "the lord’s revelation to my master: ‘sit on my right, i will...
Bishop David McGough
Escaping the 'raging wee cantons' of Belfast
the ghost factory by jenny mccartney 4th estate, 272pp, £12.99/$17.99 the ghost factory is set in northern ireland at the tail end of the tr...
Michael Duggan
Schoenberg: The founding father of 'heroic modernism'
arnold schoenberg by mark berry reaktion books, 224pp, £12/$19 arnold schoenberg was a composer much given to statements of sweeping portent...
Michael White
A poet's guide to avoiding the fires of hell
spiritual direction from dante by fr paul pearson, tan books, 372pp, £20/$25 in the 700 years since the publication of dante alighieri’s thr...
Patrick Cusworth
Pavarotti's giant appetite for life
any film about luciano pavarotti must deliver the kind of experience that made him the most admired and recognised singer of his age. pavaro...
Deal Hudson
A Catholic writer's revolutionary realism
morley callaghan (1903-1990), a catholic writer from toronto, set out to be a chronicler of the urban scene of his native city. he sought to...
David Staines
Pray that Charlie's Law is passed
can a pair of brave but terribly sick little boys, neither of whom lived to see the age of two, move a whole nation to change unjust laws? o...
Sohrab Ahmari
Letters & emails
the challenge facing lourdes sir – the article by christopher altieri regarding the changes taking place at the lourdes sanctuary (vatican n...
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