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October conference to revisit ‘Pius Wars’ over role of wartime pontiff
rome – one year after an explosive new book reopened what have often been dubbed the “pius wars”, meaning debates over pope pius xii and his...
Crux Staff
Dorothy Sayers Criticizes Rerum Novarum
describing her as "a distinguished anglican writer," the catholic herald asked the mystery novelist and playwright dorothy sayers to contrib...
Lessons from the Archives
What do young people actually want? The lessons of Lisbon and the Tupperware Tabernacle
world youth day was an astonishing and wonderful event. it gathered something like 1.5 million young catholics together in lisbon. if the wo...
Gavin Ashenden
Pope promotes former Anglican bishop who became priest
the pope has promoted a former anglican bishop to the rank of monsignor less than a year after he was ordained a catholic priest. mgr john g...
Simon Caldwell
Outrunning God: my journey from journalism towards priesthood
if you have come here expecting to read a testimony that recounts extraordinary happenings, then prepare to be disappointed. mine is not a s...
Cronan Yu
Out of the Shadows: walking through the night with St John Henry Newman
oxford - “when we know how many good souls would gladly be catholics if they could,” the wispy white haired oratorian priest spoke softly in...
Lauren Spohn
Monkish business
the dissolution of the monasteries: a new history by james g clark yale up, £25, 689 pages ________ apart from the black death plague pandem...
John Adamson
On the Seventh Day of Christmas: Lead, Kindly Light
bohdan mandziuk is a seminarian for the ukrainian eparchy of the holy family of london, and when war broke out was a student at the three ho...
Bohdan Mandziuk
Good vibrations
it is a long time since i last heard about a television programme with a pang of regret at having missed it, but i do rather wish i’d caught...
Nick Thomas
Arabella Byrne reviews Benediction (2021)
siegfried sassoon – war hero, conscientious objector, pacifist, homosexual and, latterly, catholic – has long been a rich seam to filmmakers...
Arabella Byrne
The Order of Malta has the right to control its affairs
the pope’s five-year intervention in the affairs of the order of malta has not been particularly happy. some of the order’s knights and dame...
The Catholic Herald
Radical Romantics: Reimagining the Rossettis at London's Tate Britain
beige walls, beige wood, beige carpet. the almost monochrome décor in the first room of the rossettis at london's tate britain is so reminis...
Lucy Boswall
Eternity intruding into time: the Incarnation throws everything off balance
‘when the fullness of time had come,” declares st paul, “god sent his son, born of a woman, born under the law, to ransom those under the la...
Ken Craycraft
People like us: Kim Samuel and Bishop Erik Varden on community, belonging and togetherness in a post-Covid world
i cannot now remember the number of times that i have sat in the sheldonian theatre in oxford, wearing an academic gown of either red or bla...
Serenhedd James
High Societies
the british museum’s peru is a land of hallucinogenic flora and highly diverse fauna, albeit without paddington or any other bears. it’s a l...
Lucien de Guise
The problems with Jacques Maritain's political philosophy
jacques maritain, the most famous thomist philosopher of his age, contributed to the drafting of the united nations declaration of human rig...
Anthony McCarthy
Former US President Joe Biden risks excommunication by joining Freemasons
former us president joe biden has joined the freemasons even though the catholic church can punish membership of the secret society with exc...
Simon Caldwell
The eternal tourist trap
as a young augustinian monk on his first trip abroad, martin luther was clearly disappointed by rome, remarking that “if there is a hell the...
Loyd Grossman
Tony Harding: Reaping the wisdom of nearly 70 years of priesthood
to bath on a sunday evening, to ja hansom’s magnificent church of st john the evangelist, just around the corner from the station on south p...
Serenhedd James
Feast and fast: Delicious autumnal treats with ham and cabbage
sam marsden finds some delicious things that can be done with a slice of ham and the humble cabbage. in the supermarket chiller cabinet, adj...
Sam Marsden
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