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Prize crossword 0461

cryptic across 7 one who may have supported livingstone discover a biblical clan (6) 8 god, that chap provides backing for a 70s band! (6) 9...

Alun Evans

Diego Maradona attributes his renewed faith to Pope Francis

The famous sportsman said the Pope was doing a 'great job' ahead of charity match in Rome

Staff Reporter

Jacob Neusner, Benedict XVI's 'favourite rabbi', dies aged 84

The Jewish scholar whose work was admired by Pope Benedict has died at his home in New York

Associated Press

Mary Whitehouse was right about morality, says barrister who fought against her

Jeremy Hutchinson said Whitehouse has been 'vindicated by history'

Staff Reporter

Melissa Kite: How to ruin the fun at a party conference

over french cuisine in a very fancy birmingham restaurant, i got chatting with a former tory minister at a brexit dinner. i had been invited...

Melissa Kite

The boring word the Church must embrace

subsidiarity is a very dull word. which is a pity, because it describes a very important idea. it is, in fact, the approach of authority or ...

Quentin de la Bedoyere

Mary Kenny: When the Church crushed ‘lad culture’

all freshers and new undergraduates attending oxford and cambridge universities are to be given compulsory “sexual consent” lessons. the obj...

Mary Kenny

The thrill of the Sopranos comes to the Vatican

the importance of location to great fiction has been emphasised again and again throughout the current golden age of television. hbo’s run o...

Will Gore

Film: The cop caper where everyone’s a smart aleck

war on everyone (cert pg, 100 mins, ★★ ) takes the writer/director john michael mcdonagh’s dark, antic spirit – in ireland for his last two ...

Jenny McCartney

Theatre: Behold a modern classic in the making

the pulitzer-winning american playwright suzan-lori parks goes back to the greek tragedies and homer’s odyssey to find a format for her play...

Robert Tanitch

A weighty, one-stop guide to the liturgy

the t&t clark companion to liturgy edited by alcuin reid, t&t clark, £130 the t&t clark companion to liturgy has been launched i...

Hugh Somerville-Knapman OSB

London’s great, but spare me the shards

london in fragments by ted sandling, frances lincoln, £16.99 when the tides allow, visiting the thames foreshore can, according to ted sandl...

Jonathan Wright

Briefly noted

the rookwood family papers edited by francis young (boydell press, £25) . the rookwoods of coldham hall had a terrible track record when it ...

Staff writers

Mass Readings

ordinary form divine office week iv sunday, october 9: 28th sunday in ordinary time 2 kgs 5:14-17; ps 98; 2 tm 2:8-13; lk 17:11-19 monday, o...

The Catholic Herald

Melanie McDonagh: A medievalist’s guide to dying

jonathan riley-smith was a distinguished historian, perhaps the most eminent contemporary historian of the crusades, but of all his achievem...

Melanie McDonagh

'I receive the Body of Christ through their hands': Mark Wahlberg says he's praying for priestly vocations

The actor said he had known many good and holy priests and hoped future generations would too

Staff Reporter

Pope challenges sports world to reject corruption

The Pope was speaking at the opening ceremony of a world conference on faith and sport hosted by the Pontifical Council for Culture

Catholic News Service

To understand why the Church battled Communism, just look at what happened to Russia

A dramatic narrative account of the Russian Revolution is appalling and riveting at the same time

Francis Phillips

Mass-goer forced to film Fr Hamel's murder speaks of ordeal

A witness to Father Hamel's murder has spoken for the first time about what happened

Susan Byron

PODCAST: The road from Tehran to Rome

Find out what's really happening in the Catholic Church

Madeleine Teahan

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