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Comments of the Week
i respect and appreciate catholic schools sir – i would like to make my position clear in response to concerns about my views on catholic sc...
The Catholic Herald
St Dominic’s fight against heresy set to dance
it’s good to talk. and the order of preachers (dominicans) did some good talking together late last month during our 800th jubilee mission c...
Fr Dominic White
Film: The jury’s out on civil rights legal drama
loving (12a, 123 mins, ★★★ ) is the true story of richard and mildred loving, the virginia couple whose legal case in the late 1...
Will Gore
Television: Were Bacon’s popes a search for God?
any documentary about francis bacon has a tough job to do in having to match up to that glorious instalment of the south bank show, in which...
Will Gore
Fine Art: Vanessa Bell through a granddaughter's eyes
the textile artist, literary art director, muralist and fashion designer cressida bell – vanessa bell’s granddaughter and virginia woolf’s g...
Miguel Cullen
Music: Ravishing Rice leaves the audience crushed
the french composer francis poulenc offered two contrasting faces to his audience: on the one hand a committed catholic, on the other a robu...
Michael White
The most extraordinary politician of modern times
margaret thatcher: a life and legacy by david cannadine, oup, £10.99 for those who haven’t the time to read charles moore’s official biograp...
Jack Carrigan
The age of the trembling upper lip
the history of england: revolution by peter ackroyd, macmillan, £25 the fourth volume of peter ackroyd’s history of england lands with a 400...
Michael Duggan
A lyrical novel of modern martyrdom
the golden legend by nadeem aslam, faber and faber, £16.99 "the kinship of humanity was what christ bought into the world,” reflects the fic...
Stav Sherez
Word This Week
the fifth sunday of the year is 58:7-10; 1 cor 2:1-5; mt 5:13-16 (year a) ‘share your bread with the hungry, and shelter the homeless poor. ...
Bishop David McGough
Omnium Gatherum
as i write i am within sight of the rocky mountains, preparing to preach at masses during a parish’s forty hours’ devotion, also called by t...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Lectio Divina
fifth sunday in ordinary time: mt 5:13-16 13 “you are like salt for the whole human race. but if salt loses its saltiness, there is no way t...
Mgr Anthony Abela
Saint of the week: Scholastica (February 10)
a monastic family st scholastica was the sister of st benedict – they were twins, if you believe some historians, including the scholarly st...
Staff Reporter
Pastor Iuventus
the recent celebration of the 75th anniversary of radio four’s desert island discs cast me adrift on a sea of nostalgia. we would invariably...
Pastor Iuventus
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week i sunday, february 5: fifth sunday in ordinary time is 58:7-10; ps 112; 1 cor 2:1-5; mt 5:13-16 monday, feb...
The Catholic Herald
Pope Francis: 'Jesus sought the people, not popularity'
Jesus Christ is 'always in the midst of the people', the Pope said at Mass in his residence
Catholic News Service
Why Neil Gorsuch is an outstanding Supreme Court nomination
Gorsuch is good news for religious and social conservatives - and for those who value the separation of powers
Stephen White
Pictures of the week
1 participants in cafod’s step into the gap scheme include catholic twin sisters charlotte and sophie bray, who are embarking on charity pro...
The Catholic Herald
February 5 to February 11
cardinal nichols (westminster) mon: mass of thanksgiving for the apostolic nuncio, westminster cathedral, victoria street, london, sw1p, 5.3...
The Catholic Herald
Prize crossword 0476
cryptic across 1 evil man, the cursed sailor’s most wicked to come back (7) 5 when in paris i discover the lord (5) 8 idle head’s gone to ge...
Alun Evans
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