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make confession available again sir – i would like to endorse the comments made by dr holly ordway (letter, april 12) on the subject of the ...
The Catholic Herald
Exploitation and the desire for parenthood
since at least the 1960s, we have been bombarded with information about overpopulation, and the phrase “unwanted pregnancy” has become part ...
Mary Kenny
A liberating joy: Easter in Kinshasa
every holy week begins with the celebration of palm sunday. for us in the democratic republic of congo (drc), there is no shortage of palm l...
Antoine Roger Lokongo
Will Pope Francis meet Italy's anti-immigration firebrand?
with a popularity rating of 59 per cent and his right-wing lega movement’s poll figures now double the vote it took in last year’s general e...
Andrew Cusack
Western Christians should learn from the Sri Lanka martyrs
"he who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me," but "he who loses his life for my sake will find it" (matthew 10:38-9). ...
Sohrab Ahmari
Dear Fr Rutler: Can we feel too much sorrow for our sins?
dear father rutler, my family is mostly protestant, and they obviously don’t cross themselves before praying, say “debtors” instead of “tres...
Fr George Rutler
Prize crossword 0590
cryptic across 6 steal, and the old testament requires death in the end: he was stoned (6) 8 book about one son of abraham, virtually the fi...
Alun Evans
There are three different kinds of spirituality. We need them all
where should we be casting our eyes? upward, downward, or just on the road that we’re walking? well, there are different kinds of spirituali...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Fr Schall: The man who launched a thousand libraries
the legendary georgetown professor fr james schall sj died peacefully last week, at the age of 91, surrounded by his family. he had retired ...
Gerald Russello
Heretic of the week: Rudolf Steiner
rudolf steiner (1861-1925) was born in donji kraljevec, now in croatia but then in the hungarian half of the austro-hungarian empire. his fa...
Charles Coulombe
How to... celebrate Divine Mercy Sunday
divine mercy sunday was introduced by pope st john paul ii in 2000 when he canonised st faustina kowalska, a polish nun and visionary who re...
The Catholic Herald
Catholics should strive to imitate the bees of Notre-Dame
one blessing from the suppression of the old english translation of the roman missal and the introduction of the new, was the return of the ...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
The Resurrection is only the beginning
second sunday of easter acts 5:12-16; rev 1:9-13 & 17-19; john 20:19-31 (year c) the gospels conclude with the resurrection of jesus on ...
Bishop David McGough
St Paul VI's other earth-shaking encyclical
sent to proclaim the gospels by jim mcmanus cssr, redemptorist publications, 164pp, £12.99/$15 pope paul vi’s great encyclical on evangelisa...
Fr Denis Blackledge SJ
Surviving Nazism with help from Bach
one hundred miracles by zuzana růžičková (with wendy holden) bloomsbury, 368pp, £18.99/$25 holocaust survivor stories follow a regrettably (...
Michael White
A humanising tale of a king's five daughters
daughters of chivalry: the forgotten children of edward i by kelsey wilson-lee, picador, 346pp, £20/$25 to forget something you have to know...
Allan Massie
In praise of Notre-Dame's 8,000-pipe organ
devastation and disbelief was our response when we watched the gothic cathedral notre-dame de paris ablaze, shorn of its collapsed spire and...
Jens F Laurson
A fresco to guide us through these dark times
on the first easter morning, christ’s followers were mourning, and his despairing apostles hid in a locked room. the broken and bloodied cor...
Michele Bregande
A terrible pope but a patron of genius
pope julius ii, the “warrior pope”, was the most successful – and fortunate – artistic patron of the high renaissance in rome. but we cannot...
Stephen Withnell
Biden, Buttigieg and the challenge for today's Church
pete buttigieg, the democratic presidential candidate and flavour of the month, offers america “generational leadership” – and i’m finally o...
Tim Stanley
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