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Why I won't be visiting Rome's new KFC
i overslept on monday. i had been working all weekend, but that’s no excuse. it was a school day, and there was lunch to pack for my daughte...
Christopher R. Altieri
How Catholicism won the respect of South Korea
the headline statistics are, admittedly, impressive. according to south korea’s catholic pastoral institute, church membership in the ...
Jonathan Wright
Is it truly ecumenical to host a female bishop's ordination?
after a backlash from catholic laity, the episcopal diocese of southern virginia has withdrawn its plan to consecrate its next bishop, susan...
Jordan Bloom
'Misogynistic thugs of the Vatican': Labour's extraordinary abortion row
by giving jeremy corbyn “10 out of 10” for his leadership of the labour party, rebecca long-bailey declared herself as the “continuity candi...
Simon Caldwell
World news: from Montréal to Mar del Plata
montreal religious curriculum to be removed the government of quebec is about to eliminate its ethics and religious culture (erc) curriculum...
Staff writers
Meanwhile: A Christian revival at Liverpool
liverpool striker roberto firmino has this season cemented his status as one of premier league’s best strikers. but last week he declared th...
Staff writers
Best of the web: celibacy, Scruton and troubled times
a married priest on clerical celibacy what’s the point of celibacy? at his blog, fr dwight longenecker – a married priest – argued that it h...
Staff writers
Week ahead: Homelessness, John Bosco and Irish music
tonight sees the launch of catholic theological ethics and street homelessness by rosanne haggerty, described as the first book to look at “...
Staff writers
Overlooked: Chinese authorities make bishop homeless
what happened? a bishop who has refused to join the state-run catholic patriotic association (cpa) has been made homeless after being evicte...
Staff writers
Modi has nothing to fear from a papal visit
it is more than 20 years since a pope set foot in india. in 1999, an ailing pope john paul ii made what reporters called a “tense” visit to ...
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January 24, 2020
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The old approach to confirmation isn't working
it is hazardous to write about children because you risk condescending, or making fun of them in that “kids say the funniest things” way – w...
Andrew M Brown
Prize crossword 0627
cryptic across 1 midpoint of an ot empire? (6) 4 boy, with setter aboard, makes for ot summit (6) 9 historian implied american connection (7...
Alun Evans
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week ii sunday, january 19 : the second sunday in ordinary time is 49:3, 5-6; ps 40; 1 cor 1:1-3; jn 1:29-3...
The Catholic Herald
How to… Be a coeliac Catholic
bread made for celebrating the eucharist must be unleavened and made solely from wheat flour mixed with water, according to the general inst...
The Catholic Herald
The Benedict-Sarah book shows how to defend priestly celibacy
various things conspire to bring on the january blues, like the fact that i have paid several hundred pounds in motoring fines in the past m...
Fr Dominic Allain
This Sunday, listen out for a 'liturgical unicorn'
fifty years ago, paul vi implemented a new form of the roman missal, a departure from the tradition of centuries not just in forms and gestu...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Where to look when we feel we've laboured in vain
the second sunday of the year is 49:3 & 5-6; 1 cor 1:1-3; jn 1:29-34 (year a) "the lord said to me, ‘you are my servant, israel, in whom...
Bishop David McGough
Will there be dentist drills in heaven?
divine bodies by candida moss yale, 195pp, £35/$45 most christians would agree that heaven is a place that can’t be conceptualised from our ...
Jonathan Wright
How a militaristic goddess became the Venus of Western art
venus and aphrodite by bettany hughes weidenfeld and nicolson, 241pp, £12.99/$17 whether we know her as the roman venus or the greek aphrodi...
David V Barrett
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