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A look from afar: thoughts of Advent in Cambridge and further afield
the potency of human voices singing with collective purpose is a thing most people can experience year-round. but the approach of christmas ...
Michael White
Ten Commandments up for auction, valued at $2 million
the oldest stone inscription giving a rendering of the "ten commandments" will go up for auction on 18 december at sotheby’s in new york. da...
James Jeffrey
Mystery of Mary Magdalene’s whereabouts in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel resolved
an italian art restorer is “firmly convinced” she has identified the famous female follower of jesus in michelangelo’s celebrated sisti...
The Catholic Herald
Another English cardinal: the view from outside St Peter's Basilica
melanie mcdonagh gives a personal view of the elevation of timothy radcliffe op rome – it is, of course, a great honour to be invited to att...
Melanie McDonagh
The Christian Faith is one of paradox: Why Christmas and Advent unite the mysteries of fasting and feasting
poets sometimes have as great a capacity to help us with christmas as the theologians; for christmas is a time of deep and complex beauty. p...
Gavin Ashenden
Bishop Erik Varden: How my favourite book of the Bible – Ezekiel – prepares us for an encounter with the divine
in these times of consultations and questionnaires, we are constantly asked to reflect on our responses to things. our basic mode of underst...
Bishop Erik Varden
The assisted suicide Bill is a charter to kill in the spirit of Dr Shipman
back in 1996, when the police investigated real crimes instead of spending 60,000 hours a year scrolling x for “non-crime hate incidents”, n...
Simon Caldwell
Assisted suicide vote: how did our society get to this point?
lord sumption, in a glancingly thoughtful article on the terminally ill adults (end of life) bill, told readers of the times tha...
Anthony McCarthy
'The Chosen' Season 5 to be released globally in March and April next year
the first episodes of the chosen season 5 are set to hit us theatres on march 27. from april 10, they will be released globally in over 40 c...
Thomas Edwards
Advent Sunday: The journey to Bethlehem begins
the first sunday of advent marks the beginning of the journey to bethlehem, which will culminate in the arrival of the magi and conclude wit...
The Catholic Herald
If we have a rhythm of prayer then the quiet details of normal life can contain a well-head of divine life
"in those days and at that time i will cause a righteous branch to spring up for david" (jeremiah 33:15) in sunday’s first reading, god...
Fr David Howell
Silk Roads at the British Museum: people, places and faith along the way
unlike the british empire, the sun never truly seems to set on the silk road. it doesn’t matter how often that path is travelled, romance is...
Lucien de Guise
'Grandeur is replaced with subtlety' in this unique exhibition of masterpieces at Buckingham Palace
if you’ve been to any previous exhibitions at the former queen’s gallery, now the king’s gallery, at buckingham palace (i’ve covered several...
David V Barrett
London museum to show 'queer' drag-themed reinterpretation of Handel's Messiah
a london museum is to present a drag-themed reinterpretation of handel's messiah this december. the foundling museum in camden, london, will...
Thomas Edwards
Masculinity and femininity are definable realities: Understanding them can lead to a deeper awareness of love and God
‘i don’t want to prove a woman is strong like a man – no, a woman is strong in her own way, our strength is in our femininity.” these words ...
Katherine Bennett
Warwick Street: Three centuries of Catholic worship in the heart of London
‘came the cardinal,” wrote our correspondent marian curd in 1954, describing the archbishop of westminster’s visit that december to cro...
Serenhedd James
BREAKING: Archbishop of Canterbury resigns amid safeguarding 'cover-up' controversy
the archbishop of canterbury, the most revd justin welby, has resigned in the wake of increasing public anger about the way in which the lea...
Gavin Ashenden
Feast and Fast: Recipes from the Catholic Herald for a wholesome autumn meal
the northern-hemisphere evenings are drawing in, with autumn upon us. time, then, for a proper four-course meal, eaten at a table in a room ...
Sam Marsden
Diary: by James Stourton, art historian and former Chairman of Sotheby’s UK
marcus binney is one of the unsung heroes of the last 50 years. he has saved more of england’s built heritage than any other person alive. w...
James Stourton
Beyond the bling: Mughals, Catholics and glittering works of art
there must be plenty of art enthusiasts who don’t know what a regular mughal is, let alone a great mughal. the memory of a dynasty that was ...
Lucien de Guise
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