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On the Record: Ascension, Pentecost and Trinity Sunday
an ascension day procession in bavaria if you are near oxford, make haste to the bodleian library, where you will find on display the autogr...
Alex Hodgkinson
Reviews: Visions of Eden before the Fall
in the more than a decade since avatar became the highest-grossing film of all time – raking in $2.9 billion at the box office – it fell int...
Ferdie Rous
Our children need better Catholic fiction to help solidify their formation in the faith
there is a real need for more catholic literature for young (and not so young) people. but the reality is that in comparison with the past, ...
Donal Anthony Foley
Are Catholics really fleeing to the fields to escape modernity's mess?
if, like me, you spend a little too much time on catholic twitter – or should i say x – then you might in the past few weeks have scrolled p...
Portia Berry-Kilby
Merely Catholic Podcast: Choosing Between Sanctity and Therapy, with Dr Scott Hahn
in this, the 28 episode of merely catholic, the podcast series for the catholic herald, dr gavin ashenden talks to dr scott hahn, one of the...
The Catholic Herald
A beast born of Newman’s end times theology
what a privilege it was to publish my debut novel, the beast of bethulia park, on september 30. of all the days of the christian calendar, i...
Simon Caldwell
Journey from top dog to faithful hound
benedict xvi: a life volume ii: professor and prefect to pope and pope emeritus 1966-the present by peter seewald bloomsbury continuum...
Piers Paul Read
Comedy and the Christian Faith: Appreciating Jesus’s humour gives us a new perspective
one day long ago, in the 1970s, i remember listening to the fusty old lord chancellor, lord hailsham, on radio 4. years later i read a novel...
Gavin Ashenden
Keeping body and soul together in Bangkok and Singapore
singapore is abuzz with anticipation of the forthcoming papal visit; i was there in june, during a couple of weeks in the far east. last tim...
Serenhedd James
Christian podcasts are surging in popularity – 2025 could prove their breakout year
the christian podcast scene is having a moment. in 2024, it became increasingly clear that more mainstream podcasts either had openly christ...
Thomas Casemore
View of a century: Cardinal Dolan speaks to the Herald about his good friend Henry Kissinger
few of those present on the dais at the alfred e smith memorial foundation dinner last autumn will forget the sight of the archbishop of new...
Amanda Bowman
Nativity painting of UK 'national importance' becomes High Renaissance ‘Christmas gift’ for Belfast
on hearing in 1929 that his native city of belfast had just built an art gallery but had no paintings to fill it the painter sir john lavery...
hughkennedy
'He was a Catholic before he knew it himself': Jon Fosse, 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature winner
catholic writers can convey their faith beautifully in their prose. evelyn waugh managed to insert catholic characters in his novels. tolkie...
Karl Gustel Warnberg
Pope Francis encourages Fr James Martin SJ
pope francis writes a note to a pilgrim at the vatican on 6 july 2016. (gabriel bouys/afp via getty images) pope francis has written ...
Staff Reporter
REVIEW – House of Lilies: The Dynasty that Made Medieval France, by Justine Firnhaber-Baker
house of lilies: the dynasty that made medieval france justine firnhaber-baker penguin, £30, 448 pages on 12 august 1239, louis ix of france...
Alexander Faludy
Emanuela Orlandi to be back in the spotlight in 2024
rome – if she’s somehow still alive, today would mark emanuela orlandi’s 56 th birthday. in the popular mind, however, especially here...
John L Allen
Diary: I am a poor wayfaring brother
since 2000, when i turned 60, i have lived at the hospital of st cross, a medieval almshouse in winchester. it was founded about 1132 by wil...
Bevis Hillier
Heart over head: Engaging with the Catechism, one paragraph at a time
it’s not that i’m jealous of fr mike schmitz and his success in producing an app that takes you through the catechism in one year – and whic...
Gavin Ashenden
British Museum's Nero exhibit is 'hair-flattening' take on infamous figure
cover image: publicity for the british museum's nero: the man behind the myth exhibit, 27 may - 24 october 2021 (image formatted to fi...
Lucien de Guise
Bread of Heaven: The forthcoming transition to John’s Gospel is full of meaning
this being year b of the sunday lectionary cycle, we will mostly be reading through st mark’s gospel; but only mostly, because it is the sho...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP
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