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How to... accompany the dying
pope st john paul ii noted in an address in 2004 that “a man, even if seriously ill or disabled in the exercise of his highest functions, is...
Staff writers
Christians who reject the empty tomb are the real myth-makers
as the masses of easter octave come to an end, so do the daily gospel proclamations of jesus’s post-resurrection appearances. for some reaso...
Fr Dominic Allain
Beehives and the meaning of baptism
last week, i was inspired by both the exsultet, sung by the deacon during the vigil of easter with its imagery of bees, and the survival of ...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
The honour of suffering humiliation
the third sunday of easter acts 5:27-32 & 40-41; rev 5:11-14; jn 21:1-19 (year c) christ is alive! he is our hope, and in a wonderful wa...
Bishop David McGough
The story of the 'greatest organisation in human history'
steve weidenkopf, who teaches church history at the christendom college graduate school of theology in virginia has written in timeless: a h...
Francis Phillips
Plato, Peppa Pig and the power of darkness
darkness: a cultural history by nina edwards reaktion books, 288pp, £16.99/$27.50 buttons. offal. weeds. nina edwards has written books abou...
Michael Duggan
A medieval cure for modern man's unease
curing mad truths by rémi brague university of notre dame press, 133pp, £25/$29 rémi brague argues that the modern project has failed, and t...
Edward Feser
The men who stopped Bonnie and Clyde
they’re young, they’re in love, and they kill people.” that was the famous tag-line for arthur penn’s bonnie and clyde (1967), as unforgetta...
Carl Curtis
Letters & Emails
after the revolution, the reckoning sir – the article by fr hugh somerville knapman (feature, april 5), on the desirability of revisiting th...
The Catholic Herald
From marriage to death, our rites are being reinvented
i am made aware that we are coming up to the wedding season by the visibility of the hen party. exactly when these parties – or pre-wedding ...
Mary Kenny
Life under ISIS: Raqqa's Christians tell their story
the churches of raqqa lie in ruins following the defeat of isis. but remarkably the city’s christian community has survived. before the syri...
Sam Sweeney
Why exorcism went out of fashion – and why it's back
in 1969, the swiss jesuit herbert haag published goodbye to the devil, an argument that satan was merely a metaphor. along with two american...
Matthew Schmitz
Do you have hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia?
hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia means a fear of long words. i can cope with sesquipedalian, which means containing long words, because i...
Quentin de la Bedoyere
Don't let architects ruin Notre-Dame
notre-dame has been saved from total ruin by the firefighters. the principal relics and works of art were saved too. commendable bravery all...
Fr Raymond de Souza
The drama of Leonardo's Virgin of the Rocks
unlike other florentine renaissance artists such as fra angelico and michelangelo, leonardo da vinci was not personally religious for most o...
Mgr Timothy Verdon
Leonardo at 500: Catholicism was the real Da Vinci Code
the leonardo renaissance sweeping the globe over the past few years will hit fever pitch this month as the world remembers his death 500 yea...
Elizabeth Lev
Diary: Transylvania awaits the Pope – and one million pilgrims
i’m back in transylvania. at csíksomlyó they are replanting the gardens and extending the car parks ready for pope francis’s visit on june 1...
Petroc Trelawny
Why Spain's Catholic vote splits three ways
the spanish church wished “light and strength” to premier pedro sánchez after his socialist party took a strong lead in sunday’s election, a...
Jonathan Luxmoore
'We are all Sri Lankans': A defiant mood in Colombo
the mercury was touching 40°c (104°f) and the air so humid i felt like a wet towel seconds after stepping out of the car. yet still hundreds...
Ned Donovan
Does the future belong to the 'nones'? It's not that simple
‘the nones have it.” so goes the conventional wisdom on american religiosity. we’re told that those who identify with the faith of “none” – ...
Michael Warren Davis
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