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Cardinal-designate says his appointment is a 'gesture of love' for Syria's martyrs
Mario Zenari has served as the Pope's representative in war-torn Syria since 2008
Catholic News Service
A Renaissance painter for the age of ISIS
for a caravaggio nut like me, it’s been a good month. a trip to malta, taking my son to visit his grandmother, presented an opportunity to p...
Will Gore
Fim: Werner Herzog’s surreal tour of volcanoes
into the inferno (12a, 107 mins, ★★★★ ) of the many subjects werner herzog has confronted throughout his long and extraordinary ...
Will Gore
Television: Sorry, Lord Sugar, but we’ll have to let you go
it’s time to fire the apprentice (thursdays, bbc one, 9pm). i still like the show, it still gets laughs – but it’s been going so long that t...
Tim Stanley
Theatre: Harwood’s Dresser is top drawer
ronald harwood worked with donald wolfit for five years, and though the dresser at duke of york’s theatre is not about wolfit, harwood ackno...
Robert Tanitch
Music: Camp Shostakovich and a fake exorcism
bagpipes apart, the scots are not unmusical, so it’s bizarre that at st andrews university they have no music faculty: a sad omission in a p...
Michael White
The most revealing book yet on Benedict XVI
last testament by benedict xvi, with peter seewald, bloomsbury, £16.99 the drill instructor surveyed the new recruits. he was expected to tu...
Luke Coppen
A beginner’s guide to ‘becoming God’
called to be the children of god edited by carl olson and david vincent meconi sj, ignatius, £18 there is an ancient belief that christians ...
Paul Senz
Firecrackers of wit amid the darkness
resolution by an wilson, atlantic books, £16.99 this brilliant novel by an wilson concerns the enlightenment, illustrated in the life of geo...
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Briefly noted
maria maddalena de’pazzi: the making of a counter-reformation saint by clare copeland (oxford, £55) . when it comes to early modern carmelit...
Staff writers
Omnium Gatherum
in the traditional, extraordinary form, calendar, this sunday’s mass uses texts for the fifth sunday “left over” after epiphany. yes, you re...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Blessed of the week: Marthe Le Bouteiller (November 4)
‘sister cider’ marthe le bouteiller was born aimée-adèle le bouteiller in 1816. she grew up in the village of percy in normandy. her father ...
Staff Reporter
Lectio Divina
luke 20:27-38 27 then some sadducees, who say that people will not rise from death, came to jesus and said, 28 “teacher, moses wrote this la...
Mgr Anthony Abela
Pastor Iuventus
the change in the hour is the fulcrum on which we turn towards the dark of winter, and a misty, damp morning strewn with brown leaves is a r...
Pastor Iuventus
Pictures of the Week
1 patti fordyce, dr caroline farey, catherine macmillan, fr dominic allain, sister jane louise, dr olive duddy and clare asquith at the 48th...
The Catholic Herald
Clinton ahead of Trump among Catholics, according to new poll
Poll suggests the Democratic nominee is supported by 51 per cent of Catholics compared to 40 per cent for her Republican rivals
Catholic News Service
November 6 to November 13
cardinal nichols (westminster) sun to sat: westminster diocese pilgrimage to the holy land. archbishop longley (birmingham) sun to sat: join...
The Catholic Herald
Prize Crossword 0464
cryptic across 1 common belief it requires fine geordie principles (6,5) 9 one’s doomed to fail not being a cricket-type – perhaps can’t kee...
Alun Evans
Katherine Daniels: Slow down and you’ll see more
i met my late husband, robin, on a quiet day at an event led by him entitled “the poet’s eye”. it was about seeing life the way the poet or ...
Katherine Daniels
On our resistance to love
there’s nothing simple about being a human being. we’re a mystery to ourselves and are often our own worst enemies. our inner complexity bef...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
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