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The next 500 years
almost 500 years ago this week, the augustinian friar martin luther sent his 95 theses to albert of brandenburg, the archbishop of mainz. th...
The Catholic Herald
In brief
second earthquake devastates norcia priests in central italy have been instructed to celebrate mass outdoors following another devastating e...
Staff writers
The art of a good death
in years gone by, death was a feature of everyday life. there was a much higher mortality rate and people tended to die at home surrounded b...
Fr George Bowen
Why truth eludes our wonky brains
there will be few readers who have not heard the story of the jesuit and the benedictine who agreed to ask their superiors if they could smo...
Quentin de la Bedoyere
Scorsese’s gift to the Jesuits
the discovery of king richard iii’s bones underneath a car park in leicester was one of the hottest news stories of 2012. and it still gener...
Thomas J Craughwell
Mary Kenny: From rhythm to algorithm
more than 50 years ago, the vatican, led by pope paul vi – a thoughtful and conscientious man – deliberated over the newly invented contrace...
Mary Kenny
A Renaissance painter for the age of ISIS
for a caravaggio nut like me, it’s been a good month. a trip to malta, taking my son to visit his grandmother, presented an opportunity to p...
Will Gore
Fim: Werner Herzog’s surreal tour of volcanoes
into the inferno (12a, 107 mins, ★★★★ ) of the many subjects werner herzog has confronted throughout his long and extraordinary ...
Will Gore
Television: Sorry, Lord Sugar, but we’ll have to let you go
it’s time to fire the apprentice (thursdays, bbc one, 9pm). i still like the show, it still gets laughs – but it’s been going so long that t...
Tim Stanley
Theatre: Harwood’s Dresser is top drawer
ronald harwood worked with donald wolfit for five years, and though the dresser at duke of york’s theatre is not about wolfit, harwood ackno...
Robert Tanitch
Music: Camp Shostakovich and a fake exorcism
bagpipes apart, the scots are not unmusical, so it’s bizarre that at st andrews university they have no music faculty: a sad omission in a p...
Michael White
The most revealing book yet on Benedict XVI
last testament by benedict xvi, with peter seewald, bloomsbury, £16.99 the drill instructor surveyed the new recruits. he was expected to tu...
Luke Coppen
Firecrackers of wit amid the darkness
resolution by an wilson, atlantic books, £16.99 this brilliant novel by an wilson concerns the enlightenment, illustrated in the life of geo...
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Briefly noted
maria maddalena de’pazzi: the making of a counter-reformation saint by clare copeland (oxford, £55) . when it comes to early modern carmelit...
Staff writers
Prize Crossword 0464
cryptic across 1 common belief it requires fine geordie principles (6,5) 9 one’s doomed to fail not being a cricket-type – perhaps can’t kee...
Alun Evans
Katherine Daniels: Slow down and you’ll see more
i met my late husband, robin, on a quiet day at an event led by him entitled “the poet’s eye”. it was about seeing life the way the poet or ...
Katherine Daniels
Psychiatrists can’t explain demonic possession, says director of The Exorcist
William Friedkin says that 45 years on from the release of his film, there is more acceptance of 'the possibility of possession'
Staff Reporter
The Pope's visit to Sweden was historic, but the gulf between Catholicism and Lutheranism is wider than ever
Schism is the worst of sins and we must all work our hardest for reconciliation
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Jesus's tomb exposed for the first time in centuries
A team of fifty experts working at the site as part of restoration project
Susan Byron
The best of the Catholic blogosphere
✣ highlights from the week online a towering leader in an ‘age of giants’ on the feast day of st john paul ii last saturday, one cont...
Staff writers
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