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Culture wars are nothing new: Mince pies were popish abominations to Cromwell’s Puritans
with the christmas period continuing through to early january, might i urge catholics to "hold the line" – to keep their trees and decoratio...
Tom Colsy
Letter from the Editor: Jeremy Irons, the Cotswolds, charity and Da Vinci
on a chilly night early in december, i attended a wonderful charity dinner at sudeley castle in gloucestershire which raised money for wellc...
William Cash
Christians in the Holy Land
this christmastide issue of the catholic herald is a reminder that, for christians, the festive season is still festive. secular society may...
The Catholic Herald
Mythmaking online and Marshall McLuhan
nick ripatrazone explores how walter j scheirer’s new book a history of fake things on the internet engages with marshall mcluhan’s ide...
Nick Ripatrazone
'On the eighth day of Christmas my true love sent to me'...Fireworks followed by the dawn of New Year's Day
it is new year’s day. midnight has been marked with the usual eruption of noise. if there was silence in heaven for half an hour, there was ...
vivboland
'On the seventh day of Christmas my true love sent to me'...WB Yeats's poem 'The Mother of God'
the threefold terror of love; a fallen flare through the hollow of an ear; wings beating about the room; the terror of all terrors that i bo...
The Catholic Herald
'The Twelve Days of Christmas' and the 'cheerful nonsense' of English Christmas Carols
on the first day of christmas, my true love sent to me a partridge in a pear tree. on the second day of christmas, m...
Andrew Gant
The virgin birth of Christ is not necessary, but it is appropriate
a virgin did conceive . i will not be the first person to tell you this, but the prophet isaiah did not unequivocally predict the birth...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP
After finding his 'Chesterton' feet, Italy’s top male model wants to be a priest
the phone in each of our pockets has become the magic mirror on the wall that we consult every hour of every day to ask: “who is the fairest...
Katherine Bennett
Pesellino's work is spectacular: alas, we shall never know what else might have been
francesco di stefano, known as pesellino, first established his reputation and that of his workshop in florence through small-scale devotion...
William Davie
Becciu guilty: sentenced to five-and-a-half-years imprisonment by Vatican court
rome – in the long-awaited denouement of the vatican’s “trial of the century,” which has been seen widely as a litmus test of pope francis’s...
John L Allen
Hidden genius: celebrating the obscure Pesellino at the National Gallery in London
how many people had heard of francesco di stefano before london’s national gallery decided to stage a mini-exhibition of his work? better kn...
Serenhedd James
The poetry of Christmas trees
nick ripatrazone explores seasonal lines by poets elizabeth bishop, wb yeats, james merrill and denise levertov. in one of her most fa...
Nick Ripatrazone
Expert says church is 'waking up' to climate crisis under Pope Francis
leicester, united kingdom – a leading catholic expert on the environment has said that under pope francis' leadership, “the whole church is ...
Charles Collins
The greatest miracle of all: the incomprehensible natural phenomenon of human nativity
james lefanu describes the almost incomprehensible natural phenomenon culminating in the birth of each one of us . seeing the christmas stor...
James Le Fanu
Celestial assault in a mind-altering performance of Hildegard’s soaring music
whatever we know about the 12th-century religious polymath hildegard of bingen is new knowledge, because she all but vanished from the recor...
Michael White
Hear the angels sing: Some Christmas carols have a more complicated origin than we think
we might be surprised by the origin of certain christmas carols, says andrew gant one of the notable features of our much-loved christmas ca...
Andrew Gant
When the wind has flayed the trees: melancholia and the season
melancholy memories are part of the christmas experience for many . every advent sunday, i turn to a lovely poem by former archbishop of can...
Niall Gooch
Keeping the fast and keeping the feast
kate ford presents some fasting food for advent, sam marsden looks forward to christmas fare, and cornelia van der poll embarks on her own o...
The Catholic Herald
Shane MacGowan on 'seeking the eternal buzz'
the 19th-century french poet arthur rimbaud was known for his piety as a boy. receiving his first holy communion at the age of 11, his rever...
Karl Gustel Warnberg
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