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Actor playing Jesus in Ben-Hur 'received blessing from the Pope'
The Catholic couple behind the film say they hope it delivers a 'message of reconciliation'
Mark Pattison
Theresa May's choice of holiday is a reassuring sign for Britain
Mountain holidays are biblically inspired and have been the refuge of several saints – not least St Pope John Paul II
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Television: The biggest celebrities you’ve never heard of
The term 'celebrity' might be used loosely in the latest series of Big Brother and its spin-off show
Tim Stanley
Making parishes work
in a question-and answer-session with the polish bishops during his recent visit to that country, pope francis made some striking observatio...
The Catholic Herald
The anxious world of Turkey’s Catholics
in 2010, the austrian politician ewald stadler delivered a rousing speech from the floor of the national council in vienna. for more than ei...
Robert Wargas
The way to empty abortion clinics
the walls are talking by abby johnson, ignatius press, £14 whatever the political upheavals of the last few weeks in britain, it is safe to ...
Francis Phillips
Music: Powerful pianists and macho mosquitos
if you’re a grand anglo-italian family who own a castle on a hill in tuscany, the thing to do is run a summer music festival. ideally like t...
Michael White
Theatre: Why I feel sorry for Harry Potter’s son
in the victorian era, the heyday for popular theatre, audiences loved melodrama, spectacle and sensational scenes. “sensation is what the pu...
Robert Tanitch
Television: The biggest celebrities you’ve never heard of
conversations with my mother about celebrities are like a game of guess who? she’ll say: “who’s that man i’m thinking of? he’s married to th...
Tim Stanley
Film: Hunger Games knock-off will leave you famished
nerve (15, 96 mins, ★★ ) as a teenage boy growing up in the 1990s i was duty-bound to love the word, channel 4’s deliriously pro...
Will Gore
Lectio Divina
luke 1:39-56 39 soon afterwards mary got ready and hurried off to a town in the hill country of judea. 40 she went into zechariah’s house an...
Mgr Anthony Abela
Omnium Gatherum
the feast of the assumption of the blessed virgin is celebrated this coming week. from the earliest years, holy church believed that at the ...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Piers Paul Read: Channel 4’s post-Christian culture
last monday, flicking through the channels on my television in search of bbc two’s excellent programme on the battle of the somme, i found m...
Piers Paul Read
‘Why on earth didn’t they ask us?’ The churches where Pokémon Go is a nuisance
A backlash has begun – but it's the manufacturers, not the players, who are being blamed
Dan Hitchens
'Mercy received must be mercy shared', Pope tells general audience
The Pontiff told the faithful that Christians must demonstrate to the world how to display acts of mercy towards others
Catholic News Service
'I'm going to go out and glorify God's name': the Christian athletes at the Rio Olympics
Novak Djokovic and Usain Bolt are among the Christian athletes competing this month
Susan Byron
The Young Pope is 'not wildly inaccurate', says HBO chief
A television series starring Jude Law as Pope will premiere this Autumn
Staff Reporter
'Disciples of Satan'? I know what the Pope means, but most parish secretaries are wonderful
Church secretaries should be a cheery voice at the end of the phone to prevent scaring away callers
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Foreign aid failing to reach Christians fleeing ISIS, Middle Eastern bishops say
Christian minorities from Iraq and Syria left feeling 'betrayed' as humanitarian assistance fails to reach them
Catholic News Service
Word This Week
The Nineteenth Sunday of the Year: Wis 18:6-9; Heb 11:1-2 & 8-12; Lk 12:32-48 (year c)
Bishop David McGough
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