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Salvation is a gift, not an achievement
sixth sunday of easter acts 15:1-2 & 22-29; rev 21:10-14 & 22-23; jn 14:23-29 (year c) "some men came from judaea and taught the bro...
Bishop David McGough
Kociejowski's poems are an antidote to the dumbing down of modern life
collected poems by marius kociejowski carcanet, 99pp, £12.95/$18.99 the literary travelogue – with elements of history, anthropology, person...
Ian Thomson
Why was Britain's elite willing to swallow Hitler's lies?
appeasing hitler by tim bouverie bodley head, 512pp, £20/$25 "not another book on hitler," you protest. “can there be anything more to say?”...
Thelma Lovell
An island of saints and scholars seized by technocrats and wonks
my father left me ireland by michael brendan dougherty sentinel, 240pp, £20/$24 "you leave. i cry.” with these four words, michael brendan d...
Michael Duggan
To hell with moral equivalence: the Soviet spies helped advance evil
set in post-war britain, traitors (netflix originals) plunges its viewers into the world of espionage, chiefly of soviet infiltration of att...
Carl Curtis
How Bach turned the Gospel into sound
faith and the arts are natural partners. both aspire to the fusion of order with a creative leap of the imagination, connecting the ideal wi...
Thelma Lovell
Letters & emails
why women cannot be ordained sir – i wonder why matthew schmitz (comment, may 17) did not give your readers the reason why pope st john paul...
The Catholic Herald
Forget Mrs May's politics: her situation surely commands compassion
if the political soothsayers are correct, theresa may is in the dying days of her stewardship of 10 downing street. whether or not you agree...
Mary Kenny
We've come a long way since Cranmer called the pope the antichrist
in 1971, hunter s thompson looked back on his time in san francisco in the mid-1960s in one wistful passage from his most famous specimen of...
Andrew Petiprin
From Sydney to Strasbourg, the Left has forgotten how to persuade
the australian centre-right coalition defied the odds recently to win re-election. as the results came in, former conservative pm tony abbot...
Tim Stanley
How to read a book in five minutes
some 50 years ago my son came to me for help. he was preparing for his a-level history examination. but his mind was so cluttered with facts...
Quentin de la Bedoyere
Father Hesburgh's flawed legacy
a picture is worth a lifetime of words. so it is with the famous photograph from 1964 taken at a civil rights rally at soldier field in chic...
Fr Raymond de Souza
What The Atlantic doesn't understand about the priesthood
it should not surprise anyone to discover wickedness among the ranks of the catholic priesthood. everyone with a modicum of self-awareness a...
JD Flynn
Why can't English footballers celebrate their Christianity?
it was a week of minor miracles, though not as st augustine might have conceived them. even for those who have no interest in champions leag...
Andreas Campomar
A 'mortal threat' to religious freedom in California
as it stands, all clergymen in california are “mandated reporters”, meaning the state requires them to report suspected instances of the sex...
Michael Warren Davis
Does Ireland's new pro-life party stand a chance?
when citizens of the irish republic go to the polls today, they will have the privilege of being able to vote for a pro-life party. aontú, w...
Simon Caldwell
Who is in line to succeed the Vatican doctrinal chief?
last week was all about consistories. when will the next one be? who would turn 80 when, and what will it all mean for the church heading ou...
Christopher R. Altieri
World News: from Cipoletti to China
erie, pennsylvania priest reconciled with website he called ‘from the devil’ a priest has apologised to the media organisation church milita...
The Catholic Herald
Meanwhile: crazy designs for Notre-Dame
the competition has begun. architects are pitching their proposals for the redesign of notre dame – and some of the ideas fall rather short ...
The Catholic Herald
The best of the web: surviving communism, Marilynne Robinson, and a parish miracle
slovak catholics who survived communism at the american conservative , the eastern orthodox writer rod dreher introduced readers to the rema...
The Catholic Herald
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