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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
Briefly noted
fordham: the history of the jesuit university of new york by thomas shelley (fordham university press, £34) . since 1841 fordham has played ...
Staff writers
Word This Week
the sixth sunday of the year ecclus 15:16-20; 1 cor 2: 6-10; mt 5:17-16 (year a) ‘open my eyes that i may consider the wonders of your law. ...
Bishop David McGough
Omnium Gatherum
your planet has once again swung around to the time of year which since ancient times catholics have called pre-lent. in the traditional cal...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Lectio Divina
sixth sunday in ordinary time: mt 5:20-34, 37* 20 “i tell you, then, that you will be able to enter the kingdom of heaven only if you are mo...
Mgr Anthony Abela
Saint of the week: Valentine (February 14)
cured blindness st valentine is a 3rd-century saint universally known as the patron saint of romance. although his feast is marked by both b...
Staff Reporter
Pastor Iuventus
magister adest et vocat te (“the master is here and he is calling you”) is the simple quotation in gold letters about the threshold of the s...
Pastor Iuventus
Pictures of the week
1 iain duncan smith, former secretary of state for work and pensions, visits trinity catholic high school in woodford green, essex. 2 loreto...
The Catholic Herald
February 12 to February 18
cardinal nichols (westminster) tue: travels to rome for presidency ccee meeting, 7.00am. wed: meetings in rome (day 1), 7.00am. thu: meeting...
The Catholic Herald
Experts tell Australian abuse panel Church must look closely at clerical culture
Catholic experts have told an Australian government commission that the Church needed to re-examine its culture of clericalism
Catholic News Service
Prize crossword 0477
cryptic across 1 outpouring, a volume of tears noah overcame (5) 4 miners after pub go to ‘the greatest show on earth’, so he claimed (6) 10...
Alun Evans
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