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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
Film: A wildly eccentric biopic succumbs to convention
jackie (15, 100 mins, ★★★ ) how does one secure a legacy? the question has assumed renewed prominence in recent months, with a b...
Mike McCahill
Music: The Daniel Craig of cellists holds the stage
the kings place concert venue is acoustically the best new small-scale hall in london; and the first sounds ever heard there, when it opened...
Michael White
Television: To be a great talent show, it has to be bad
the bbc is simply too polite to do a talent show. the x factor, which remains the best, is cheerfully chavvy and rude. girls in tight dresse...
Tim Stanley
When hymns were swords against heresy
how the choir converted the world by mike aquilina, emmaus road, £15 music is almost universally recognised as one of the greatest gifts god...
Paul Senz
Omnium Gatherum
bernard malamud, the author of the natural, a sub-optimal novel converted into a terrific baseball movie, wrote: “experience makes good peop...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Pastor Iuventus
as a kind of catch-all christmas-and-several-birthdays treat we go as a family to the royal ballet’s performance of the nutcracker. it is a ...
Pastor Iuventus
Prize crossword 0474
cryptic across 7 judge disheartened vatican scholar (6) 8 rahab, a misfit, the first to see the jordan valley (6) 9 a boy’s back-to-front, h...
Alun Evans
Matthew Walther: My dream for my kids: celibacy
few passages in holy writ ring true like st paul’s lines in 1 corinthians about not being able to get a proper look at our own reflections. ...
Matthew Walther
America can unite by following the example of Martin Luther King, not Donald Trump
The President-elect wants 'to make America great again', but his vision is limited
Francis Phillips
Silence shows that priests aren't therapists - they're here to help save our souls
Critics have reduced Silence to a missile in the culture wars. It's so much more than that
Tim Stanley
PODCAST: How to end the dubia drama
Tune in to find out what's really happening in the Catholic Church
Madeleine Teahan
The best of the Catholic blogosphere
✣ highlights from the week online is 2017 the year for a vatican-china deal? negotiations between the holy see and china “are on cour...
Staff writers
Gisela Stuart: Leavers and Remainers unite!
last june the british people reflected on their membership of the european union, and on a turnout of 72 per cent decided by a clear majorit...
Gisela Stuart
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