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Andrew M Brown: My mother’s DIY funeral
the small chapel at warriston crematorium in edinburgh is furnished neutrally with rows of conference-style seats, large amounts of pale pol...
Andrew M Brown
What's inside this week's magazine?
Take a look inside this week's Catholic Herald
Staff Reporter
The trouble with Wagner
The composer's anti-Semitism has worrying echoes in today's society
Francis Phillips
Church in El Salvador calls for mining ban
An archbishop said the country's mining law leaves the country vulnerable to exploitation
Associated Press
On her Sapphire Jubilee, the Queen remains a wonderful inspiration to all
The Queen is a remarkable example of faithfulness to a call
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Pope Francis sends video message to Super Bowl
The Pope said he hope the Super Bowl would provide 'a sign of peace, friendship and solidarity for the world'
Associated Press
Bishop establishes centre for the traditional Latin Mass in Devon
The Extraordinary Form Mass has not had a home in the county for decades
Staff Reporter
'Pope video' released to accompany February's prayer intention
The Pope prays that refugees and the marginalised 'find welcome and comfort'
Junno Arocho Esteves
The best of the Catholic blogosphere
✣ highlights from the week online did adoration save a city from violence? the city of juarez in northern mexico was once considered ...
Staff writers
When politics replaces morality
‘you have a duty to disobey to the ecclesial authorities on temporal matters!” you might assume that the man saying these words, standing in...
Pierre Jova
Television: Were Bacon’s popes a search for God?
any documentary about francis bacon has a tough job to do in having to match up to that glorious instalment of the south bank show, in which...
Will Gore
Fine Art: Vanessa Bell through a granddaughter's eyes
the textile artist, literary art director, muralist and fashion designer cressida bell – vanessa bell’s granddaughter and virginia woolf’s g...
Miguel Cullen
Music: Ravishing Rice leaves the audience crushed
the french composer francis poulenc offered two contrasting faces to his audience: on the one hand a committed catholic, on the other a robu...
Michael White
The age of the trembling upper lip
the history of england: revolution by peter ackroyd, macmillan, £25 the fourth volume of peter ackroyd’s history of england lands with a 400...
Michael Duggan
A lyrical novel of modern martyrdom
the golden legend by nadeem aslam, faber and faber, £16.99 "the kinship of humanity was what christ bought into the world,” reflects the fic...
Stav Sherez
Briefly noted
paul on baptism by nicholas taylor (scm press, £19.99) . subtitled “theology, mission and ministry in context”, this thoughtful study examin...
Staff writers
Pastor Iuventus
the recent celebration of the 75th anniversary of radio four’s desert island discs cast me adrift on a sea of nostalgia. we would invariably...
Pastor Iuventus
God’s power as powerlessness
the french novelist and essayist léon bloy once made this comment about god’s power in our world: “god seems to have condemned himself until...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
What I saw in the megachurches
American Evangelical churches pack in more than 2,000 worshippers every week. Our parishes have much to learn from them
Stephen Bullivant
Auxiliary bishop punched during Mass says he's doing well
Fr Manuel Cruz was punched in the mouth at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark
Associated Press
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