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Meanwhile: Two popes, two nominations
you wait ages for an actor to receive an oscar nomination for playing the pope, and then two come along at once. jonathan pryce has been nom...
Staff writers
The best of the web: an occupied cathedral, Roger Scruton and the McCarrick delay
the catholics who occupied a cathedral at charlotte was both, amy welborn praised an academic article by jennifer scheper hughes, which look...
Staff writers
The week ahead: Novena for Life, Christian unity, turnip throwing
on tuesday january 21, the nine days for life novena begins. it includes the day for life on january 22, which the general instruction of th...
Staff writers
Overlooked: Hungarian government to offer free IVF
what happened? the hungarian government has announced that it will offer free ivf to women, in a move likely to increase tensions with the c...
Staff writers
The big story: Benedict XVI defends celibacy amid authorship furore
what happened? pope emeritus benedict xvi has entered the debate over the future of the priesthood, contributing to a book by cardinal rober...
Staff writers
The celibacy book deserves a more serious response
on sunday, the french newspaper le figaro made a startling announcement. the pope emeritus benedict xvi had contributed to a book defending ...
The Catholic Herald
January 17, 2020
The Catholic Herald
Saying grace can change your life
it’s a new year, and we are told by the media that it is time for a new you. someone who is better, wiser and – most insistently – thinner. ...
Rachel Kelly
Heretic of the week: Ellen G White
the 1830s were a tempestuous time for american protestantism, from the fires of the second great awakening to the ongoing march of unitarian...
Charles Coulombe
Prize crossword 0626
cryptic across 5 blessings of sixties music – duet is not in tune (10) 8 left hospital department after period of abstinence (4) 9 awe to a ...
Alun Evans
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week i sunday, january 12 : the baptism of the lord is 42:1-4, 6-7; ps 29; acts 10:34-38; mt 3:13-17 monday, jan...
The Catholic Herald
How to… Get the Pope's attention
bizarrely, two new phrases crept into usage in the english language over the christmas period. one was “slapgate”, a noun that refers to the...
The Catholic Herald
The gentle death of Mère Stéphanie
as usual, my monastic christmas, celebrated with the community of st cecilia abbey, ryde, in the isle of wight, brought me many graces, but ...
Fr Dominic Allain
How to become a liturgical being
both east and west have calendar issues. in the eastern churches, some follow the old julian calendar and some the newfangled 16th-century g...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
The marriage that overcame the evils of Nazism
last letters by freya and helmuth james von moltke (translated by shelley frisch) nyrb, 432pp, £14.99/$18.95 in any society the number of pe...
Jack Carrigan
An anthropologist takes on Richard Dawkins
believers: faith in human nature by martin konner, norton, 336pp, £22/$28.95 as everyone from teilhard de chardin to albert einstein has tau...
Matt Thorne
The Protestant thinkers who love Benedict XVI
the theology of benedict xvi: a protestant appreciation edited by tim perry lexham press, 272pp, £20.99/$25.89 the theology of pope emeritus...
The Catholic Herald
Critics disdain this little movie – but they're wrong
ashes in the snow (amazon prime) is a little movie, but “little” doesn’t mean small. ashes focuses on the personal trials of an adolescent g...
Carl Curtis
The Catholic writer who rivalled Dostoyevky
in march 2013, in the first homily after his election, pope francis said: “when one does not profess jesus christ, i recall the phrase of lé...
Benjamin Ivry
The new Little Women would shock Louisa May Alcott
the latest film version of louisa may alcott’s little women, directed by greta gerwig, has been a critical and popular success. it has a fem...
Mary Kenny
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