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A smile from Monteverdi
michael white enjoys the delight of the vespers and a radical reimagining of carmen. to hear monteverdi’s vespers of the blessed virgin is t...
Michael White
SPECIAL REPORT: Jerusalem's Armenian ceramics tell a story of Christian craftsmanship against the odds
balian ceramics is a tranquil space on nablus road, one of the busy thoroughfares in occupied east jerusalem. a group is taking a potte...
CaitlinKelly
Vatican cricket team begins ‘Light of Faith’ UK tour
the vatican cricket team has begun its "light of faith" uk tour, playing two matches over the weekend in buckinghamshire. on 28 june, the va...
The Catholic Herald
The pull of Rome: Once visited, never forgotten – the Eternal City calls again
everyone should miss a flight at least once – as long as the location is congenial, the circumstances understandable and the mitigation reas...
Serenhedd James
Secularism under Scrutiny: Why restless hearts find their questions answered in God
secularists are worried; all is not well. richard dawkins in particular is deeply distressed and disturbed. a wave of high-profile christian...
Gavin Ashenden
Ring dem Bells: an ancient, important and holy Christian custom
in a tweet that upset many people, the prominent atheist richard dawkins declared that he loved listening to the bells of winchester cathedr...
Katherine Bennett
Hallowed in the womb: John the Baptist represents the whole history of Israel
the nativity of st john the baptist falls on june 24. almost every sermon on this occasion remarks that it is an unusual thing to celebrate ...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP
Lord Mayor welcomes Japanese Royal couple to Westminster Abbey
london’s city of westminster took centre stage for the official state visit to the uk by emperor naruhito and empress masako of japan. the l...
The Catholic Herald
On the Record: recommended listening for Corpus Christi and Ss Peter & Paul
proclaimed before the gospel on the feast of corpus christi, lauda sion is one of the four medieval sequences that remain in annual use. the...
Alex Hodgkinson
A bittersweet correspondence between Rainer Maria Rilke and his gardener friend
nick ripatrazone looks at letters around a garden by rainer maria rilke, written to his close friend antoinette, a gardener, a century ago. ...
Nick Ripatrazone
‘Little Englishmen’ in Portugal: a new book about the English College at Lisbon
the english college at lisbon 1622-1972 , by simon johnson gracewing, £25, 272 pages the relationship between britain and portugal is often ...
Deacon Stephen Morgan
Across the Thames: a new book about Southwark but not much about its Catholics
liberty over london bridge: a history of the people of southwark by margaret willes yale university press, £20, 304 pages the dead are inter...
Andrew Cusack
Body and soul: a selection of music to celebrate Corpus Christi and Ss Peter & Paul
proclaimed before the gospel on the feast of corpus christi, lauda sion is one of the four medieval sequences that remain in annual use. the...
Alex Hodgkinson
AI’s alleged ‘psychopathic tendencies’ are not what should be concerning us
the first time i heard of chatgpt was last year, when i received an email circulated among some university chaplains. we were presented with...
Fr Robert Verrill OP
Vatican to endorse key figure in China’s Catholic history
this week the vatican appears to be renewing its efforts to remain onside with the chinese authorities. two top officials are poised to spea...
Elise Allen
Free but far from equal: Juneteenth, Jim Crow and the legacy of race in America
race relations in the us and uk are persistent and seemingly intractable issues. while both countries have had admirable successes in assimi...
Ken Craycraft
Despite progress US bishops must remain wary of ‘complacency’ over child abuse, concludes Review Board
while the us church has made substantial progress in addressing the abuse of children there remains a risk of complacency creeping in, the u...
johnlavenburg
Recent discoveries highlight important role indigenous music played in Jesuits’ famous missionary zeal
the jesuits are renowned as hardened missionaries, establishing substantial missions in the likes of south america and the far east during p...
johnsloboda
Who was the so-called 'poet of the locusts' and chronicler of devastation behind the Book of Joel?
we know very little about joel, the son of petuel. since there are no chronological indications in his writings, scholars have great difficu...
Fr Francesco Patton
Review – 'Alexandria: The City that Changed the World' by Islam Issa
alexandria: the city that changed the world islam issa sceptre, £30, 496 pages in 331 bc, on the north coast of egypt, an extraordinarily ta...
John Ritzema
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