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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
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
Pope Francis concerned by 'haemorrhage' of priests and nuns from Church
The Pontiff told participants at a Vatican event on religious life that the loss of clergy is weakening the Church
Associated Press
Fanny Burney: the Jane Austen contemporary who really did despise the lower classes
Her charming but cruel novel Evelina is a great read – but it lacks the true greatness of Jane Austen's work
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Vatican advisers clash on Pope’s abuse reforms
two members of pope francis’s commission on child protection have clashed over the effectiveness of recent reforms. the psychiatrist barones...
Staff writers
Mary Kenny: A march to nowhere
i was upbraided by a “facebook friend” for not being present at one of the women’s marches against president trump and his administration la...
Mary Kenny
Film: Making trouble in the rock’n’roll underworld
danny says (unrated, 105 mins, ★★★ ) danny fields, the gadfly-entrepreneur of us pop and proto-punk, is attracted to “crazy peop...
Ian Thomson
CD review: A revival for piano’s forgotten genius
the english pianist daniel grimwood’s latest disc, henselt: piano works, on edition peters’s fledgling record label, is a fine selection of ...
David Oldroyd-Bolt
Theatre: Ibsen survives a radical reworking
henrik ibsen’s hedda gabler works best in its correct period, the 1890s. but it is still interesting to see ivo van hove’s radical updating ...
Robert Tanitch
They killed her sister. Could she forgive them?
if you sit very still by marian partington; jessica kingsley, £13 marian partington is the sister of lucy partington, who disappeared on her...
Jack Carrigan
How the paintbrush changed literature
the pen and the brush by anka muhlstein, other press, 14.99 ‘i have not only supported the impressionists,” the young emile zola boasted, “i...
Stav Sherez
Word This Week
the fourth sunday of the year zeph 2:3 & 3:12-13; 1 cor 1:26-31; mt 5:1-12 (year a) ‘seek the lord all you, the humble of the earth, who...
Bishop David McGough
Omnium Gatherum
forty days out from christmas we reach the final marker of the advent to epiphany cycle. in the traditional calendar, february 2 is the feas...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Prize crossword 0475
cryptic across 1 joiner of clubs and writer, carter somehow gets about (9) 6 silence found on the edge of tundra wood (3) 9 girl, nancy, is ...
Alun Evans
The Noonday Devil and Sabbath
early christian monks believed in something they called acedia. more colloquially, they called it the noonday devil, a name that essentially...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Pope meets Arnold Schwarzenegger at general audience
The Pope also told the faithful that women were more courageous than men
Catholic News Service
Scorsese's Jesuit epic snubbed by Oscars 2017
Silence received only one nomination for this year's Academy Awards
Staff Reporter
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