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The Week Ahead: Japan, Red Wednesday, Christ the King
pope francis arrives in japan on saturday november 23, on a visit whose theme is “protect all life”. he is expected to make a strong stateme...
Staff writers
Prize crossword 0620
cryptic across 5 french author died in thebes, he discovered (6) 7 fix liza with soldier, getting on board to see the pyramids here (2,4) 9 ...
The Catholic Herald
Writing homilies often leaves me shaken
during homilies, i occasionally tell an amusing story to illustrate my point. i deliver a line i find particularly jocular, only to look up ...
Fr Michael Rennier
Prize crossword 0619
cryptic across 3 two boys read quietly in school a letter from paul (11) 7 fool little boy to come to a valley near jerusalem (6) 8 it’s him...
Alun Evans
William Oddie's lasting legacy
william oddie, who died last week aged 80, may not have been the longest-serving editor of the catholic herald, but he was one of the most i...
Luke Coppen
Ignoring Church law on Communion is sheer cruelty
the decision to refuse to admit pro-abortion politicians to holy communion is not just based on a centuries-old discipline of the church. it...
The Catholic Herald
There was nothing inevitable about it
we’re fast approaching the 30th anniversary of the opening of the berlin wall, which helped spell the end of communism. east germany was mor...
Tim Stanley
Big story: Statue thrower revealed
what happened? the man who threw the controversial “pachamama” statues into the tiber has come forward. alexander tschugguel, a 26-year-old ...
Staff writers
After years as the 'Hotel Inspector', I'm going back into the business myself
for the first time in many years, i am working with my mother, olga. we have just bought a 38-bedroom hotel in east sussex, in the medieval ...
Alex Polizzi
Meanwhile: Pray and display
a church in avezzano, central italy, has put a “pray and display” sign in its car park. fr vincenzo de mario of the madonna del passo church...
Staff writers
Prize crossword 0616
cryptic across 7 camouflaged crusader chap’s hard-wearing uniforms on sundays? (6,7) 8 where paul landed against the tide, going west, is th...
Alun Evans
Words, hymns and moderation: Newman and the genius of English Catholicism
does the canonisation of st john henry newman mean approbation for something more than a single, splendid, sanctified life? does it celebrat...
Fr Raymond de Souza
Priests and nuns are a common sight in the DRC's civil service
the code of canon law states that “clerics are forbidden to assume public offices which entail a participation in the exercise of civil powe...
Antoine Roger Lokongo
Quotes of the week
"it has been the experience of a thousand lifetimes" melissa villalobos, who was miraculously healed by st john henry newman, ...
Staff writers
The best of the web: Whistleblowing seminarians, incivility, confession for couples
priests and seminarians challenge the silence until recently, wrote michelle boorstein at washingtonpost.com, it was practically “unheard of...
Staff writers
Prize crossword 0614
cryptic across 7 new zealander, troublesome and ludicrously lewd, outed a galilean (8) 8 brown horse leaves home after cow at last moves out...
Alun Evans
The courtroom hug that showed Christianity in action
i can entirely understand why some people thought brandt jean shouldn’t forgive amber guyger. guyger killed his brother. on september 6, 201...
Tim Stanley
The saint whose life was 'a history of failures'
john henry newman’s life can well be described as one of continual failures, if only because that was how he saw it. “all through life thing...
Fr Ian Ker
Pronoun showdown: A judge upholds a Christian doctor's dismissal
a judge has declared the belief that god created everyone as either male and female, and that this cannot be changed, as “incompatible with ...
Simon Caldwell
Prize crossword 0613
cryptic across 5 arabs hate missile hits (11) 8 place in gilead’s a goal for leading actor’s comeback (8) 9 florida has a few of these from ...
Alun Evans
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