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francis names priest to oversee abuse cases pope francis has named mgr john kennedy as head of the discipline section of the congregation of...
The Catholic Herald
Colin Brazier: Facebook doesn’t know you’re dead
last month facebook sent me an email to remind me that it was ken’s birthday. a delightful man, ken. right up to his death, two years ago. t...
Colin Brazier
Television: Prudish Waugh would approve of this Decline
the genius of evelyn waugh was his ability to be both moral and malicious, to find joy in just how wicked we really are. decline and fall (f...
Tim Stanley
Music: The choir that makes Luther sound charming
readers of the catholic herald are unlikely to be overcome with enthusiasm for the quincentenary of the reformation, which occurs this year....
Michael White
Why the Gospel made sense to pagans
the dawn of christianity by robert knapp, profile books, £25 the extraordinary success of the christian religion, growing from a small group...
Piers Paul Read
Priests, prisoners and unhappy marriages
the church cannot remain silent by oscar romero, orbis, £14.99 during his time as archbishop of san salvador, oscar romero received a predic...
Jonathan Wright
Pastor Iuventus
the pang of not being a father i don’t know what it is about long-haul flights – maybe the cramped conditions the subliminal knowledge that ...
Pastor Iuventus
'On the Cross, our hope was born and is always reborn,' says Pope Francis
Francis held his final general audience before Easter
Catholic News Service
Vatican stamps mark Benedict XVI's birthday and Fatima apparitions
The Philatelic and Numismatic Office said the stamp sheet celebrating Benedict's birthday is an 'affectionate tribute'
Catholic News Service
Motor neurone disease sufferer wins right to challenge law on assisted suicide
Noel Conway initially lost his case last month to bring about a judicial review of the law
Staff Reporter
Two works of art that Catholics should ponder this Holy Week
Guido Reni and Gerard Manley Hopkins both see beyond suffering to the promise of the Resurrection
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Pope to wash feet of inmates at mafia 'turncoat' prison on Holy Thursday
The Vatican said that the Mass would be 'strictly private' for security reasons
Associated Press
TA Pascoe: The war that spawned a childish generation
"it’s difficult to say ‘thy will be done’, but god plans all these things for the best, so i must be brave, along with other mothers and wiv...
T A Pascoe
Prize crossword 0485
cryptic across 5 hair we first cut to become monks (11) 7 shandy he invented when on serious drugs (6) 8 to bug military intelligence is to ...
Alun Evans
Lectio Divina
palm sunday: matthew 21:1-11 1 as jesus and his disciples approached jerusalem, they came to bethphage at the mount of olives. there jesus s...
Mgr Anthony Abela
The Bible-bashing founding fathers
reading the bible with the founding fathers by daniel dreisbach, oup, £20 talk to the wrong american political pundit and you may come away ...
Jonathan Wright
Music: The playful genius of Britain's hot property
new concert music gets such scant attention nowadays that travellers on the clapham omnibus would struggle, i suspect, to name a living brit...
Michael White
Theatre: Tennant’s Don Juan: resistance is futile
having just seen sean foley’s ghastly sledgehammer approach to molière’s the miser at garrick theatre, it was particularly pleasing to see p...
Robert Tanitch
Television: Thriller that sends us to bed with shaking bones
i hate it when people describe television as a rollercoaster ride, but there is one sense in which line of duty (bbc one, sundays 9pm) fits ...
Tim Stanley
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