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The year that healed the rift
if any year can be said to have made a difference to the united kingdom’s relationship with the holy see, it is 1982. today catholics recall...
Catherine Pepinster
The heartache of busy men
it is not often that an ex-tory chancellor gets compared by a former cabinet colleague to gordon gekko. but that was how iain duncan smith r...
William Cash
Our broken world needs the Cross
the fourth sunday of lent 1 sm 16:1, 6-7, 10-13; ps 23; eph 5:8-14; jn 9:1-41 we have now reached the mid-point of lent and many of us will ...
Bishop Robert Byrne
Taylor Swift’s psalms show me how to love God
there is no trope more present in pop music than the kiss. and in fact my vocational journey to the jesuits started with a kiss. it was a su...
David Inczauskis SJ
Fine art: American titans who changed art forever
visiting american dream: pop to present at the british museum is a bit like solving a whodunit, cracking a finickity puzzle, or unmasking a ...
Miguel Cullen
Television: The bored youths of Brexit Britain
i had some very bored summers as a child. and that was pre-internet. the suburbs are not designed for teenagers – is anywhere? – and there’s...
Tim Stanley
Theatre: It’s still hard to keep up with Stoppard
fifty years ago the then 29-year-old tom stoppard had a brilliant success with his clever rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead, which has n...
Robert Tanitch
George Eliot’s two great rebellions
the transferred life of george eliot by philip davis, oup, £25 if there is no god, george eliot will do, author philip davis’s mentor used t...
Helen Andrews
Omnium Gatherum
‘god this week brings us to the feast of the annunciation on march 25. while it is a marian moment in the church’s calendar, it is truly a f...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week iv sunday, march 26: fourth sunday of lent 1 sm 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a; ps 23; eph 5:8-14; jn 9:1-41 monday, ma...
The Catholic Herald
Prize crossword 0483
cryptic across 1 men the sage arranged for jesus’ betrayal here (10) 8 classical historian american, dogged, understood (7) 9 oddly sad abou...
Alun Evans
Historic restoration of Jesus's burial shrine completed
The shrine will be unveiled on Wednesday in the presence of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I and a representative of Pope Francis
Associated Press
Morning Catholic must-reads: 20/03/17
A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church
Luke Coppen
The path toward corruption is a slippery road, warns Pope
The Pope said that people who trust in themselves and not in God are vulnerable to becoming corrupt
Catholic News Service
Why is the Home Office turning priests away?
St Anselm’s has been driven out by the Government’s failure to grasp religious life
Ann Widdecombe
Why is the Home Office turning priests away?
a catholic mp, carol monaghan, appeared at a committee meeting on ash wednesday with a cross on her forehead. she had, of course, been to ma...
Ann Widdecombe
Mary Kenny: Ireland hits peak anti-Catholicism
ireland has been in a state of turmoil following the discovery of nearly 800 infant remains in a mass grave at tuam, county galway. the babi...
Mary Kenny
Comments of the Week
why i stand by my book hitler’s pope sir – in his article on pius xii (cover story, march 10), fr leo chamberlain comments that my book hitl...
The Catholic Herald
Film: A tear-jerking road movie for the age of austerity
icíar bollaín and paul laverty, a tight-knit duo with close links to ken loach, respectively direct and write the screenplay of the olive tr...
Miguel Cullen
Music: The trouble with reducing Shakespeare
according to the statistics, there are more operas based on shakespeare than on the work of any other single writer – a clear case of compos...
Michael White
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