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Mother Teresa refused to be silenced
the canonisation of blessed teresa of calcutta will be hailed far and wide by those within and without the church. she was the most famous, ...
Fr Raymond de Souza
Comments of the Week
the history of priestly celibacy isn’t so simple sir – fr jerome bertram’s article on priestly celibacy (feature, august 19) repeats a numbe...
The Catholic Herald
Music: ‘Ninja granny’ fires up Proms Liszt concerto
daniel barenboim and martha argerich first met as children growing up in buenos aires. and it was like children that they sweetly left the p...
Michael White
Theatre: GIs and Tips the cat in a Cornish war scandal
emma rice, artistic director of shakespeare’s globe theatre, made her name as director and then artistic director of kneehigh, cornwall’s in...
Robert Tanitch
Television: Spot the 1980s movie – in eight episodes
spoiler alert: stranger things (netflix) is one big spoiler. from beginning to end. within a few minutes you’ll be thinking, “do i recognise...
Tim Stanley
Art round-up: Punk in its heyday: which side were you on?
there is an exhibit in punk 1976-78 which made me break out in (nostalgic) smiles. it is a t-shirt called you’re gonna wake up one morning a...
Miguel Cullen
Briefly noted
faith and struggle on smokey mountain by benigno p beltran (alban books, £18.99) . the author, a filipino priest of the society of the divin...
Staff writers
Football: the other religion of Argentina
angels with dirty faces by jonathan wilson, orion, £20 some of the best sports books of recent times have sought to survey the football cult...
Will Gore
Catholic missionaries choose to stay in South Sudan despite attack on foreign aid workers
South Sudanese troops launched the brutal attack in mid-July in a Juba hotel
Catholic News Service
The holy mountain time almost forgot
mount sinai by george manginis, haus publishing, £20 mountains have always commanded a singular place in religion. pagan societies worshippe...
Mark Curtis
The civil rights leader who admired Stalin
w.e.b. du bois by bill v mullen, pluto press, £14.99 when w.e.b. du bois died in august 1963 he was, writes bill mullen, a “hero to friends”...
Jonathan Wright
September 4 to September 10
cardinal nichols (westminster) tue: delivers key note address at catholic chaplains’ conference, st mary’s university, twickenham, waldegrav...
The Catholic Herald
Mass Readings
ordinary form divine office week iii sunday, september 4: 23rd sunday in ordinary time wis 9:13-18b; ps 90; phmn 9-10, 12-17; lk 14:25-33 mo...
The Catholic Herald
Stuart Reid: What bikinis and burkinis have in common
older readers may remember the big hit of the summer of 1960, itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polkadot bikini. it tells the story of a nice ...
Stuart Reid
Pastor Iuventus
how catholic france can recapture its brilliance one of the luxuries of my holiday in normandy was fresh bread for breakfast. there is a sim...
Pastor Iuventus
Searching for utopia, with limits
when i was a child there was a popular song whose chorus repeated this line: “everyone is searching for utopia.” and we all are. every one o...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Morning Catholic must-reads: 31/08/16
A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church
Luke Coppen
Saint of the week: St Gregory the Great (September 3)
a severe monk pope st gregory i was born around 540 in rome to a wealthy family who owned estates in sicily. he was well educated and became...
Staff writers
Lectio Divina
luke 14:25-33 25 once when large crowds of people were going along with jesus, he turned and said to them, 26 “those who come to me cannot b...
Mgr Anthony Abela
Turkey gives early release to man convicted of murdering priest
Witnesses say 16 year-old Oguzhan Akdin shouted 'Allahu Akbar' while he shot the priest twice in the head
Catholic News Service
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