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Le Pen’s Catholic flock
after meeting stiff resistance for decades, the french national front is now gaining ground among catholics. for years, commentators had spo...
Pierre Jova
The boring word the Church must embrace
subsidiarity is a very dull word. which is a pity, because it describes a very important idea. it is, in fact, the approach of authority or ...
Quentin de la Bedoyere
Fatima: the answer to secularism
next year will see the 100th anniversary of our lady’s apparitions at fatima, which took place between may and october 1917, and which culmi...
Donal Anthony Foley
Mary Kenny: When the Church crushed ‘lad culture’
all freshers and new undergraduates attending oxford and cambridge universities are to be given compulsory “sexual consent” lessons. the obj...
Mary Kenny
Tonight's Channel 4 programme attacks my pro-life organisation. Here's what they won't tell you
Many pregnant women change their minds about having an abortion. But somehow their stories are ignored
Clare McCullough
Comments of the Week
st augustine didn’t bring the gospel to britain sir – in your leading article, “the cost of unity” (september 23), you state that “st gregor...
The Catholic Herald
The thrill of the Sopranos comes to the Vatican
the importance of location to great fiction has been emphasised again and again throughout the current golden age of television. hbo’s run o...
Will Gore
Kaine and Pence clash over abortion in vice presidential debate
Tim Kaine said he and Hillary Clinton 'support the constitutional right of American women to consult their own conscience'
Staff Reporter
Film: The cop caper where everyone’s a smart aleck
war on everyone (cert pg, 100 mins, ★★ ) takes the writer/director john michael mcdonagh’s dark, antic spirit – in ireland for his last two ...
Jenny McCartney
Television: Abuse trial that puts us all in the dock
national treasure (channel 4, tuesdays, 9pm) is one of the most catholic dramas we’ve seen in a while. robbie coltrane plays paul finchley, ...
Tim Stanley
Theatre: Behold a modern classic in the making
the pulitzer-winning american playwright suzan-lori parks goes back to the greek tragedies and homer’s odyssey to find a format for her play...
Robert Tanitch
Music: Terrific opera, but not for the thin-skinned
i don’t suppose even the vatican stockpiles more crucifixes than you find in the royal opera’s new production of bellini’s norma. hundreds i...
Michael White
A gripping Vatican thriller with a right-on twist
conclave by robert harris, hutchinson, £20 robert harris’s new novel, conclave, is set in the near future when, after the death of a pope be...
Piers Paul Read
A weighty, one-stop guide to the liturgy
the t&t clark companion to liturgy edited by alcuin reid, t&t clark, £130 the t&t clark companion to liturgy has been launched i...
Hugh Somerville-Knapman OSB
London’s great, but spare me the shards
london in fragments by ted sandling, frances lincoln, £16.99 when the tides allow, visiting the thames foreshore can, according to ted sandl...
Jonathan Wright
Briefly noted
the rookwood family papers edited by francis young (boydell press, £25) . the rookwoods of coldham hall had a terrible track record when it ...
Staff writers
Lectio Divina
luke 17:11-19 11 as jesus made his way to jerusalem, he went along the border between samaria and galilee. 12 he was going into a village wh...
Mgr Anthony Abela
Saint of the Week: John XXIII (October 11)
stretcher-bearer angelo giuseppe roncalli was born in the italian village of sotto il monte on november 25, 1881. he graduated in 1904 with ...
Staff writers
Pastor Iuventus
this year’s 40 days for life campaign is well under way in 306 american cities and towns, as well as others all over the world. this is a pe...
Pastor Iuventus
Pictures of the Week
1 sisters of mercy attend a mass marking 175 years of their presence in handsworth, west midlands, celebrated by archbishop bernard longley ...
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