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Diary: by Sarah Sands
one of the great novels on sickness and death is thomas mann’s the magic mountain. i have been reading it because of a norfolk-based interes...
sarah sands
Deeper insight into Mary, Queen of Scots
a moving and insightful treasure trove of her ‘lost letters’ has been discovered online, writes gertrude clark. the “most important new find...
Gertrude Clarke
Stonyhurst College and its churches
stonyhurst is a remarkable establishment, in both architectural and other ways. it is physically situated in remote lancashire countryside t...
Michael Hodges
Traditional Latin Mass: the latest pawn in the Vatican chess game
vatican politics is beginning to look a little like a chess game. white against black. a battle between those who love the church throu...
Gavin Ashenden
Nicaraguan bishop jailed for 26 years after he spurns offer of exile in United States
the nicaraguan dictatorship has sent a catholic bishop to jail for 26 years for treason after he refused to board a plane to take him into e...
Simon Caldwell
What does Pope Francis really think about homosexuality and sin?
there was a flurry of correspondence between the tireless lgbtq+ activist fr james martin and pope francis on saturday 27 january.&nb...
Gavin Ashenden
Assisted suicide risks making medical profession 'no go area' for Catholics
the introduction of assisted suicide could risk making the medical profession a “no go area” for catholics, the catholic union of great brit...
Olenka Hamilton
Piero’s new-look Nativity
after three years of painstaking work, piero della francesca’s famous nativity, from the early 1480s, returned to public display in the nati...
Hugh Kerr
Death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI: Cardinal Nichols
the archbishop of westminster, cardinal vincent nichols, has issued the following statement on the death of pope emeritus benedict xvi. "i a...
The Catholic Herald
On the Third Day of Christmas: The Incarnation
on the feast of st john the evangelist, the great apostle of the incarnation, an extract from the third chapter of st athanasius’s great tre...
St Athanasius of Alexandria
Merely Catholic Podcast: Re-imagining English Catholicism
serenhedd james joins gavin ashenden for this 30th episode of merely catholic to talk about why it has been historically difficult to be bot...
The Catholic Herald
Anger and Courage: Sheila Hollins and the response to the Church's sexual abuse scandal
photo: baroness hollins and colleagues working on the vatican abuse commission the catholic union’s annual craigmyle lecture was delivered o...
Hugh Kerr
Worth the wait: Piero’s "Nativity" unveiled in all its glory
after three years of painstaking work, piero della francesca’s famous nativity , from the early 1480s, has returned to public display in the...
Hugh Kerr
Raise a glass to GK Chesterton
this year marks the centenary of gk chesterton’s reception into the catholic church. it had been anticipated by some of his most catholic wr...
The Catholic Herald
CCLA leads calls for large UK companies to provide cost of living support to low paid
( photograph of peter hugh smith courtesy of ccla ) a 17-strong investor coalition has called for the largest uk companies to provide better...
Hugh Kerr
Has a Catholic priest in Ireland really been cancelled by his Bishop for preaching against sin?
what is more important, appeasing the atheist catholic-haters on twitter or saving souls? it seems that for the bishop of kerry, ray browne,...
Laura Perrins
Pope's Order of Malta reforms 'illegal' under UK charity law, says senior knight
the pope’s reforms of the order of malta are illegal under uk law and has placed the organisation on a collision course with the charity com...
Simon Caldwell
Not to praise, but to bury
of all the events to mark the destruction of st benet’s hall in oxford, one might have thought that the optimistically-titled mass in “thank...
Joe Lord
Cardinal Grech: will the next pope come from Malta?
maltese cardinal mario grech, secretary general of the synod of bishops, has said he views the open letters on the synodal path as a “public...
The Catholic Herald
When fake news turned fatal
hoax: the popish plot that never was by victor stater yale, £20, 336 pages titus oates was a flat-faced con man with no credit or standing i...
Jessie Childs
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