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How Pope's blessings for same-sex couples undermine peace efforts in Ukraine
rome – as the world marked the second anniversary of russia’s invasion of ukraine yesterday, the failure to date of all diplomatic efforts, ...
John L Allen
The beauty and power of music can bring us into the presence of the Divine
a book on sexual passion, which was authored by cardinal fernández of the dicastery for the doctrine of the faith, has recently been redisco...
Gavin Ashenden
Rising from the ashes: Notre Dame comes to Westminster Abbey
on 15 april 2019 the world watched as notre dame de paris burned. after the flèche collapsed and smoke appeared through the louvres of the w...
Serenhedd James
On pilgrimage with: Author and photographer Laura Dodsworth
where would you go? i’d like to walk england’s classic pilgrim’s way from winchester to canterbury. but it is a two-week commitment and that...
The Catholic Herald
On the Record: Musical choices for heart and soul this Lenten season
candlemas was only just a couple of weeks ago; an early easter this year means that lent is here already. if i were to suggest miserer...
Alex Hodgkinson
Female diaconate possible according to theologian nun advising Pope
rome – a spanish nun who has participated in recent meetings of pope francis’s top advisory body has said that while women’s priestly ordina...
Elise Allen
Italy and the Catholic Church still riven by pernicious politics of memory
rome – italy’s february 10 “day of remembrance” is worth giving more consideration to than might seem immediately obvious to the non-italian...
John L Allen
The Psalms and Kit: The promise of peace of mind
sarah sands on her brother, kit, and the psalms. the book of psalms has already been singled out by the revd jonathan aitken for this public...
sarah sands
Even doubters and deniers can find a spiritual home in the Psalms
the best gift we can receive as we’re learning how to pray is clear guidance from a person who already prays. and there is no greater expres...
Fr Jeffrey Kirby C
Gluttony is still with us, but so is the Lenten fast
over a decade ago, conservationists working in the early-medieval st cadoc’s church at llancarfan in south wales painstakingly chipped away ...
Pen Vogler
All Catholic moral doctrine is social doctrine
humans were created for social relationships. among the implications of the creation accounts in the first two chapters of genesis is that t...
Ken Craycraft
The mystery of Jesus's 'stern' moment with the leper (and with us)
"jesus immediately sent him away and sternly ordered him, 'mind you say nothing to anyone'" (mark 1:43-44). our lectionary translation for p...
Fr David Howell
A safe haven: Catholic oasis welcomes visitors in the heart of New York City
the leo house in new york city was founded in 1889 by peter paul cahensly, a german businessman who wanted to ensure that his fellow immigra...
Amanda Bowman
Sound of silence: the British Museum's latest exhibition only tells part of an important story
it’s fair to say that there’s a lot of interesting stuff in the british museum’s latest exhibition, legion: life in the roman army . in fact...
Ben Stephens
Choirs at Christmas
from prestigious cathedral choirs to small ensembles, michael white enjoyed concerts of the highest quality. i’m never sure what it is that ...
Michael White
Maryann Corbett: Profound and darkly comic
nick ripatrazone enjoys the latest collection of poems by maryann corbett both entertaining and devotional. tucked in the back of a book, an...
Nick Ripatrazone
Elisabeth Frink: Doing away with the bambino
a recent journey down a particularly long online rabbit hole – the kind of digression at which the internet still sometime excels – led me t...
Archie Hill
Commemorating Cardinal Consalvi: 200 years of restored relations between Great Britain and the Holy See
last week saw the bicentenary of the death of cardinal ercole consalvi, who died on 24 january 1824. brilliant, erudite and anglop...
John Martin Robinson
Is the Pope after an ‘Assisi on the Tiber’ to promote his spiritual vision
mikhail gorbachev once declared that while he remained an atheist, he had to admit that soviet communism had never produced anyone quite lik...
John L Allen
God Save the (agnostic) King! But can the monarchy survive a non-religious future 'Defender of the Faith'?
when henry viii decided to solve his dynastic succession problem by sacking the pope, he had to put aside the somewhat inconvenien...
Gavin Ashenden
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