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How to win an argument about abortion
the abortion act 1967 was frankly a disaster. the most emotionally effective argument in its favour was the prevention of illegal abortions ...
Quentin de la Bedoyere
Mary Kenny: The ‘tsar’ who wants to save Christmas
british traditions such as christmas are “at risk”, according to dame louise casey, the government’s “integration tsar”. that’s the person w...
Mary Kenny
Comments of the Week
leaving the eu is the catholic thing to do sir – fr ashley beck (letter, september 9) remarks on the “negative” approach of catholic leave a...
The Catholic Herald
Film: A charlatan who gave fine wine experts a hangover
when it comes to picking wine for dinner, i’ve always been firmly in the “go for the second cheapest and hope for the best” camp. yet this d...
Will Gore
Television: It’s manipulative, corny and trite – but I love it
keep failing your driving test? try the x factor contestant method. show up to the test with your entire family, all of whom are crying. inf...
Tim Stanley
Theatre: Branagh steps into Olivier’s comic shoes
it was the unexpected casting of laurence olivier as archie rice in john osborne’s the entertainer which made its premiere in 1959 so memora...
Robert Tanitch
Music: Rattle needs to rein in his shining stallions
whenever simon rattle brings his berlin philharmonic to britain, there’s a sense of boy-made-good about it that’s infectious. hearts inflate...
Michael White
Should we welcome the expansion of Catholic schools? Not if it makes them less Catholic
The more Catholic schools we have, the more we will be tempted to dilute our Catholic identity
Michael Merrick
Spiritual Books
docat , ignatius press, £6.99 this book, which is packed with photographs, excerpts from papal encyclicals and quotations from the saints an...
Francis Phillips
Christians can't back out of modern politics
god in public by tom wright, spck, £9.99 tom wright is infuriated by attempts to exclude faith from political discourse. god is often treate...
Jonathan Wright
The illness which gave Dostoyevsky joy
a smell of burning by colin grant, jonathan cape, £16.99. colin grant, a doctor who works as a radio producer for the bbc, was prompted to w...
Charlie Hegarty
Word This Week
the 25th sunday of the year am 8:4-7; 1 tim 2:1-8; lk 16:1-13 (year c) ‘no servant can be the slave of two masters: he will either hate the ...
Bishop David McGough
Omnium Gatherum
the feast of the bishop-martyr st januarius (d c305), known in italian as san gennaro, is celebrated this week. he is the patron saint of na...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Saint of the Week: Hildegard of Bingen (September 17)
youthful visions st hildegard was born around the year 1098. her family were among the lower nobility in service of count meginhard of sponh...
Staff Reporter
Lectio Divina
luke 16:1-13 1 jesus said to his disciples, “there was once a rich man who had a servant who managed his property. the rich man was told tha...
Mgr Anthony Abela
Mass Readings
ordinary form divine office week i sunday, september 18: 25th sunday in ordinary time am 8:4-7; ps 113; 1 tm 2:1-8; lk 16:1-13 monday, septe...
The Catholic Herald
Pastor Iuventus
each time i visit lisieux and alençon, as i did again on my summer holiday, i am struck by the mysterious workings of god’s providence and g...
Pastor Iuventus
Pictures of the Week
1 four dominican students, brother toby lees, brother luke doherty, brother samuel burke and brother jordan scott, make their solemn profess...
The Catholic Herald
Headmaster of the Oratory school resigns
David McFadden is moving to Aquinas College in Perth, Australia, after 34 years at the school
Madeleine Teahan
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