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Pope lays out 12-step programme to reform the Roman Curia
Francis tells Curial officials that his listing of their spiritual diseases two years ago was part of the process
Staff Reporter
What's inside this week's magazine?
Take a look inside this week's magazine
Staff Reporter
Holiness is not to be sneered at
Why do critics spend so much time scolding the saintly?
Richard Ingrams
The silence that makes us tremble
In this extract from his new book, the Vatican’s head of liturgy tells Nicolas Diat that we need to rediscover a ‘joyful and sacred fear’
Cardinal Robert Sarah
The party must go on – yes, into February
The modern tendency is to start and end Christmas early. Let’s return to our roots and celebrate until Candlemas
Melanie McDonagh
Pope Francis grants freedom to monsignor jailed over leaks
Mgr Vallejo was found guilty of passing confidential documents to journalists
Associated Press
Pope names first woman to head Vatican Museums
Barbara Jatta has been serving as vice-director of the museums since June
Carol Glatz
The best films of 2016
Son of Saul, The Club and Anomalisa all helped make 2016 a fantastic year in cinema
Will Gore
The brilliant biblical metaphor in Arrival
like et, close encounters of the third kind, starman, independence day and a host of similar films over the past 30 years, arrival explores ...
Bishop Robert Barron
Films of the Year: From modern classics to Christmas turkeys
picking a favourite film from an entire year is generally a tricky task. but this time around, the job was a relatively simple one thanks to...
Will Gore
Music: The Boris Johnson of the harpsichord
harpsichordists rarely make it into headlines: it’s a quiet profession. but a notable exception is mahan esfahani, the provocative, outspoke...
Michael White
Caught in the brutal winds of change
the time before you die by lucy beckett, ignatius press, £13.99 this superb historical novel, first published in 1999 and now reissued in an...
Jack Carrigan
The pantomime that turned into a war
blood and sand by alex von tunzelmann, simon and schuster, £25 the suez crisis, writes alex von tunzelmann, “could have been neatly resolved...
Jonathan Wright
Word This Week
fourth sunday of advent is 7:10-14; rom 1:1-7; mt 1:18-24 (year a) the fourth sunday of advent brings us to mary and the imminent birth of h...
Bishop David McGough
Omnium Gatherum
on december 17 we enter the final stage of joyfully penitential preparation for the lord’s manifold advents. st bernard (d 1153) preached in...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Lectio Divina
matthew 1:18-24 18 this was how the birth of jesus christ took place. his mother mary was engaged to joseph, but before they were married, s...
Mgr Anthony Abela
Pastor Iuventus
after december 17, the focus of the advent liturgy changes and we direct our thoughts towards the imminent birth of jesus. one of the most b...
Pastor Iuventus
Prize Crossword 0470
cryptic across 5 in egypt they contain bits, a mixture, of japan and most of corsica (7,4) 7 smallish ot book by the morning gets very big (...
Alun Evans
'The most beautiful joy of Christmas is inner joy of peace,' Pope tells general audience
At his latest general audience, Francis discussed the 'many splendours' of the baby Jesus
Catholic News Service
'A haunting glimpse of what we lost': Virgin and Child returns to England after 600 years
Masterpiece that survived the Reformation is now on display at the British Museum
Staff Reporter
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