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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
Vatican Museums open doors wider with revamped website
A YouTube channel featuring 'virtual tours' has also been launched
Catholic News Service
Pope Francis: 'Conversion means changing your way of thinking, not just living'
On Sunday, Pope Francis led the faithful in praying for the victims of the avalanche in central Italy that buried a hotel
Catholic News Service
Amid the brutality of war, an act of kindness shines all the more brightly
After the 1944 massacre in Civitella, a captain and a priest arrived to bring consolation and material support
Francis Phillips
Christian living requires a constant battle with the devil, says Pope Francis
The devil 'wages war' when he sees Christians drawn towards Jesus, the Pope said at morning Mass
Carol Glatz
Without hope in eternal life, art loses a great source of creativity
Comparing Günter Grass's late works with Titian's shows that faith expands the artistic imagination
Francis Phillips
My dream for my kids: celibacy
As a husband and father of two, my highest ambition is to have no grandchildren
Matthew Walther
Testament of youth
when older catholics speak about the younger generation it is usually with an air of despondency. there is good reason for this: the statist...
The Catholic Herald
The Catholic writer that the 21st century forgot
bruce marshall, who died 30 years ago this year, is the forgotten man of 20th-century catholic letters. the scottish convert and prolific no...
Michael Duggan
Film: McAvoy rescues a Shyamalan schlockfest
spilt (15, 117 mins, ★★★ ) m night shyamalan (the sixth sense, the village) has a reputation both for expertly disturbing his au...
Jenny McCartney
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