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The ‘translation wars’ are not over

under benedict xvi, the outlook for liturgical conservatives in the church looked more promising than ever. two of benedict’s most significa...

Madeleine Teahan

Pope Francis’s traditionalists

on the weekend that posters of a scowling pope francis were plastered over rome by traditionalists protesting against his “bullying” tactics...

Damian Thompson

A guide to Catholic ultra-traditionalists

the sspx is often referred to in the secular media as an “ultra-traditionalist” or “extremist” body. this risks exhausting the adjectives ne...

Dan Hitchens

Euthanasia’s march Down Under

the internationally renowned psychiatrist and holocaust survivor viktor frankl experienced first hand the utter depravity of auschwitz and d...

Bishop Peter Comensoli

The Vatican’s stripped-down sovereignty

the knights of malta crisis brought rare attention to the issue of sovereignty for entities that are not territorial states – like the holy ...

Fr Raymond de Souza

My Vatican journey

through the centre of siena runs the ancient pilgrimage route known as the via francigena, which begins in canterbury and ends in rome. last...

Sally Axworthy

What our politicians can learn from America

you might have thought that, after more than 30 years of campaigning to leave the eu, eurosceptic mps would have celebrated the historic vic...

William Cash

Eating your way to happiness

carmine pariante may be the most important scientist you’ve never heard of. he is a professor of biological psychiatry at king’s college, lo...

Rachel Kelly

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Mary Kenny: Bring back digs

i’m not sure that it’s the government’s role to tell citizens what kind of homes they choose to live in, but in any case there are to be str...

Mary Kenny

Comments of the Week

francis’s guiding light for the remarried sir – david baugh, a divorced catholic now in a happy, stable relationship with a widowed lady, re...

The Catholic Herald

How Springsteen makes us cry for troubled souls

in november 1990 at the shrine auditorium in la, a rugged, ripped bruce springsteen stood on stage and drawled: “this song is about the pric...

Madeleine Teahan

Fine art: The hi-tech artist who had no time for 'taste'

to stay ahead of the pack, you’ve got to keep moving. taste doesn’t matter to you, because taste is what people who watch care about. all yo...

Miguel Cullen

Television: Midlife affair is more disturbing than saucy

apple tree yard (bbc one, sundays, 9pm) sounds like a children’s television series, featuring a singing pig and dancing ducks. instead, it’s...

Tim Stanley

Theatre: Unnerving prophet of a new world order

roland schimmelpfennig, one of germany’s most prolific playwrights, wrote winter solstice in 2013 in response to the resurgence of the far-r...

Robert Tanitch

Music: Battleship-grey hair and all guns blazing

when you talk to other pianists about martha argerich , a standard response is: we don’t know how she does it. and i was thinking much the s...

Michael White

Why Catholics can’t fill America’s moral vacuum

strangers in a strange land by charles j chaput, henry holt, £20 archbishop charles chaput has been one of the bright stars of the american ...

Gerald Russello

A biblical warning for an age of despots

1 & 2 samuel: a kingdom comes by david firth, t&t bloomsbury, £14.99 ‘the process of reading involves a dialogue between the text an...

Stav Sherez

When Coleridge took on the Enlightenment

mariner by malcolm guite, hodder, £25 for malcolm guite, coleridge’s the rime of the ancient mariner is a “unique and always generative visi...

Jonathan Wright

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