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What our prisons say about us
winston churchill said that “the mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailin...
Andrew M Brown
Prize crossword 0593
cryptic across 5 place in honour of herod’s dad non-pc participants find revolting... (10) 7 ...and others find limited, as expressed in rom...
The Catholic Herald
Heretic of the week: Jan Hus
bohemian-czech native jan hus (1369-1415) is widely considered a forerunner of the protestant revolt. in 1393 he received his ba from the un...
Charles Coulombe
How to... mark the Month of Mary
may is the month of our lady, and it is nearly impossible to visit a church, especially for mass, and remain oblivious to the outpouring of ...
The Catholic Herald
The March for Life was inspiring and energising
the perfect is the enemy of the good, it is said. so in a perfect world there would be many multiples of the 5,000 people who turned out for...
Fr Dominic Allain
Why I warn people before I bless cars
the collect for the fifth sunday of easter was not in a previous edition of the roman missal. omnipotens sempiterne deus, semper in nobis pa...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Like the early Christians, we know both joy and suffering
fifth sunday of easter acts 14:21-27; rev 21:1-5; jn 13:31-35 (year c) “paul and barnabas, on their arrival at antioch, assembled the church...
Bishop David McGough
We can all defend priests from spiritual attack
those who think that praying for priests is part of our ordinary duty demanded by christian charity should look at the state of the church t...
Francis Phillips
Poetry and science are both rooted in imagination
the poetry and music of science by tom mcleish oup, 384pp, £25/$35 this book attracted my eye because i combine my role as a science columni...
Quentin de la Bedoyere
Is Protestantism the gateway to secularism?
permanent revolution by james simpson belknap, 464pp, £25.95/$35 the reformation is often depicted as the cradle of many excellent ideas: th...
Jonathan Wright
Aretha Franklin, witness to the Gospel
in january 1972, aretha franklin travelled to los angeles to join her good friend pastor james cleveland and the southern california communi...
Deal Hudson
The apocalyptic vision of my friend Les Murray
when les murray received an honorary d litt degree from the university of new england in 1990, he began his acceptance speech in an unusual ...
Karl Schmude
Letters & emails
letter of the week a saint's plea to a young shakespeare sir – joseph pearce (arts, may 10) writes of the jesuit martyr st robert southwell ...
The Catholic Herald
We're rubbish at saving food
i am ashamed of a process that i go through every weekend, as i put out the sunday night rubbish bins to be emptied on monday mornings. what...
Mary Kenny
How St Benedict's abbey survived Goths, Saracens and Nazis
‘next time you invade italy, don’t start at the bottom.” that was the post-war puckish advice to a british officer from the german general i...
Allan Mallinson
Women deacons and the Church's confusion
last week pope francis disappointed advocates for the ordination of women. his previous statements on the death penalty and communion for th...
Matthew Schmitz
How Jean Vanier changed my life
i first met jean vanier in the unlikely surroundings of the boardroom at goldman sachs. he was a large man, completely at ease in the corpor...
Rosa Monckton
The new abuse law is the biggest reform since 2001
pope francis has long argued that a thoroughgoing response to sexual abuse requires a conversion of heart and of ecclesial culture, rather t...
Fr Raymond de Souza
Will Pakistan's blasphemy laws ever be reformed?
“because of cases in which people are falsely accused of blasphemy, the whole of pakistani society is suffering. many people would say we ar...
John Pontifex
How Britain failed Asia Bibi
at last, asia bibi is free. six months after her acquittal on a trumped-up charge of blasphemy, the pakistani government has confirmed that ...
David Alton
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