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The joys of conviviality
mark the calendar: i have been to cambridge, having taken up a kind invitation from piers brendon, one of our reviewers, to have lunch with ...
Serenhedd James
Refreshingly honest account of Queen Victoria: from foibles and failings to her sense of duty and religious leanings
queen victoria and her prime ministers: a personal history anne somerset william collins, £30, 630 pages for two-thirds of the last two cent...
Fr Mark Vickers
Pope Francis arrives in Singapore: will he address China is the big question
singapore – pope francis has landed in singapore at the start of the final stage of his 12-day odyssey to asia and oceania. he is expected t...
Elise Ann Allen
Pray for peace in Ukraine
the pope could hardly be clearer about how he sees the war in ukraine. speaking in the vatican at the height of the russian attacks on mariu...
The Catholic Herald
The Epiphany: Rise and shine
english-speakers call it "the epiphany", but the germans say heilige drei könige : the three holy kings. and yet st matthew doesn’t tell us ...
Mgr Andrew Burnham
Cardinals gather at St Peter's to lead Church in evening rosary for Pope
rome – the vatican has announced an evening rosary for the pope’s recovery, starting monday, in st. peter's square. the holy see press offic...
The Catholic Herald
Police continue to intimidate Isabel Vaughan-Spruce for 'thinking' outside abortion centre
the police force in birmingham has again interrogated isabel vaughan-spruce about what goes on inside her head outside an abortion centre.&n...
The Catholic Herald
FEATURE: An encounter with the resilience and spirituality of Lebanon's enigmatic Maronite Catholics
“the innocent man will flourish as the palm-tree flourishes; he will grow to greatness as the cedars grow on lebanon.” (psalm 91:13) after a...
Tom Colsy
Pope tells cardinals to tighten belts as Vatican struggles to sort its finances
pope francis continues to push for his long-running goal of financial reform at the vatican. he has addressed the church’s cardinals and ask...
Elise Allen
Look back in languor
malice in wonderland: my adventures in the world of cecil beaton hugo vickers hodder & stoughton, pp 352, £25.00 ________ in these times...
Nicky Haslam
What does it mean if we are 'kept' in the name of the Father?
"holy father, keep those you have given me true to your name, so that they may be one like us. while i was with them, i kept those you had g...
Fr David Howell
EDITORIAL: Trump triumphs and returns to the White House with a Catholic vice president
the us election has turned out to be not quite as close-run as the pundits and the pollsters predicted. the results are in, and they are dec...
The Catholic Herald
Hidden Faces at the Met: what the other side of the picture reveals
a friend working at the metropolitan museum in manhattan said recently that she had been instructed never to mention religion – an astoundin...
James MacGuire
A Russian Catholic Hero Who Resisted the Czar and the Communists
the czarist government had sent him to jail in siberia because he was a catholic priest, not orthodox. after the russian revolution, when he...
Lessons from the Archives
Elderly priest in India denied bail a second time
-- mumbai, india -- a special indian court on monday rejected the bail application of jesuit priest fr stan swamy sj, who was arrested by th...
Benedict Lopez
Top aide says Pope is resting, not receiving guests or holding meetings
rome – italian cardinal pietro parolin, the vatican’s secretary of state, has said pope francis continues to rest after his return from the ...
Elise Allen
In the Stars the Glory of His Eyes: Tales of an Irish Tour Guide in Rome, by K Troy
guided by grace and humour. in the stars the glory of his eyes: tales of an irish tour guide in rome k troy ignatius press, £13.99, 267...
Eleanor Hammond
Tackling modern slavery head on
modern slavery exists somewhere in the supply chain of every company in britain today, according to peter hugh smith, ceo of investment firm...
Olenka Hamilton
New laws to ban prayer outside abortion clinics are disproportionate and farcical
is it only catholics who care about the unborn? asks gavin ashenden one of the more horrific parts of catholic history in these islands was ...
Gavin Ashenden
Bicentenary of first sermon by one of the greatest preachers in modern times: St John Henry Newman
two hundred years ago, on wednesday 23 june 1824, john henry newman preached his first sermon. not in oxford but seventeen miles north in th...
Paul Shrimpton
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