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Four questions for the cardinal
vatican city readers, like us writers, are perhaps getting weary from the dizzying twists and turns on divorce, remarriage and the sacrament...
Fr Raymond de Souza
On the trail of that GKC quote
of all the wonderful chesterton quotations, perhaps the finest and best known is the following. the times, having posed the question “what’s...
Stephen Bullivant
How to get into spiritual shape
ash wednesday jl 2:12-18; ps 51; 2 cor 5:20—6:2; mt 6:1-6, 16-18 ‘remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” these powerful ...
Bishop John Sherrington
The hook of Mormon
mike otterson is coming home. not all the way home (he is a scouser) but a lot closer than he has been for most of his career. otterson’s pr...
Alan Fimister
Mary Kenny: Who would Joan of Arc vote for?
a fresh theatrical production of st joan claims that bernard shaw’s play is now “relevant to our time”. but the story of joan of arc is rele...
Mary Kenny
Comments of the Week
how to help the inspiring sister tarcisia sir – no one could fail to be moved and inspired by sister tarcisia hunhoff’s work to provide sore...
The Catholic Herald
Why Christians should embrace Philip Pullman
discovering philip pullman’s his dark materials trilogy, as a child, was for me a moment of genuine wonder and awe. not since cs lewis had a...
Max Wind-Cowie
Film: Critics, relax. This enfant terrible hasn’t sold out
even an enfant terrible must grow up sooner or later. prodigal french-canadian xavier dolan’s trouble is that he’s done so along the cannes ...
Mike McCahill
Television: A dangerously alluring Hitler documentary
netflix has put hitler: a career online, which is a bit of a surprise. when this two-and-a-half-hour documentary first hit cinemas in 1977, ...
Tim Stanley
Theatre: The gentlest tragedy is more tender than ever
tennessee williams in the glass menagerie remembers a time during the 1930’s depression when he brought home, at the insistence of his mothe...
Robert Tanitch
Music: Strings fight back on the Southbank
textbooks tell you that concertos are a battle between soloist and orchestra; and it’s a mostly unfair match, won by the orchestra through f...
Michael White
The enigmatic legacy of a bloodstained queen
isabella by giles tremlett, bloomsbury, £25 from ascending the throne in 1474 to her death in 1504, isabella of castile transformed her home...
Michael Duggan
The challenge of an extraordinary genius
being wagner: the triumph of the will by simon callow, william collins, £14.99 for those who haven’t experienced richard wagner’s musical dr...
Jack Carrigan
Good intentions amid the greed and murder
continental ambitions by kevin starr, ignatius press, £28 a modern, satisfactory survey of catholicism in colonial north america has long be...
Jonathan Wright
Word This Week
the eighth sunday of the year is 49:14-15; 1 cor 4:1-5; mt 6:24-34 (year a) ‘does a woman forget her baby at the breast, or fail to cherish ...
Bishop David McGough
Omnium Gatherum
march 1 is ash wednesday. lent begins for the latin church. the eastern churches already begin fasting, abstaining from meat and dairy produ...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Lectio Divina
8th sunday in ordinary time: mt 6:24-34 24 “no one can be a slave of two masters: he will hate one and love the other; he will be loya...
Mgr Anthony Abela
Morning Catholic must-reads: 22/02/17
A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church
Luke Coppen
Saint of the week: Walburga (February 25)
england's holiest family st walburga was born in devonshire in 710, the daughter of st richard the pilgrim. her brothers were st winibald an...
Staff Reporter
Pastor Iuventus
on valentine’s day i travelled back from lisieux and alençon feeling a confidence in the intercession of the various members of the martin f...
Pastor Iuventus
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