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'Computer Says No': Mr Bates vs the Post Office
artificial intelligence is nosing its way into every aspect of our lives, perhaps nowhere more significantly than in the workplace. as with ...
Ferdie Rous
Italians bishops counter Pope by promoting sacked CDF secretary
italian bishops appear to have delivered a snub to pope francis by promoting a vatican official who the pope sacked months after the officia...
Simon Caldwell
How the stolen Parish Missal was returned to the people of Groix
last summer, in a packed church on a small island in brittany, the local mayor presented an englishman with the medal of groix, its name tak...
Thomas Edwards
New tricks bring an old Da Vinci to life in Amsterdam
william cash soaks up the sights and sounds of a new immersive leonardo da vinci show in amsterdam. following the success of such immersive ...
William Cash
Bishop Erik Varden: Christians are called to inaugurate a new world and rise through Chrismastide
each year, we begin advent singing the introit for its first sunday: ad te levavi . it sets a verse from psalm 24: “to you have i lifted up ...
Bishop Erik Varden
What are we to make of the exotic and sensually esoteric theology of Cardinal Fernández?
the exotic contents of mystical passion: spirituality and sensuality written 25 years ago by now-cardinal víctor manuel fer...
Gavin Ashenden
Israel-Palestine anxieties bear heavily on productions at Covent Garden and Bath
filled as they are with stories about vengeful israelites in conflict with their neighbours, it takes little effort these days to find sensi...
Michael White
Vatican’s doctrinal chief explains how he came to write erotically charged book on ‘mystical passion’ as young priest
rome – a book written 25 years ago by now-cardinal víctor manuel fernández giving an in-depth spiritual reflection on human sexuality and th...
Elise Allen
Rome to be spruced up in time for Year of Jubilee, Mayor Gualtieri tells Pope Francis
rome – in a half-hour audience with pope francis on friday, rome’s mayor roberto gualtieri reported that more than 1,400 public work sites a...
Crux Staff
Musings from Mongolia: Christmas in Ulaanbaatar with Cardinal Marengo's small but growing flock
rome – religion, like politics, is basically local. faith isn’t forged in the hqs of spiritual bureaucracies and their political battles, ho...
John L Allen
There came from the East: Learning of the wisdom of the Magi from Matthew’s account
no nativity play would be complete without the three kings, central characters in the tale of christ’s birth. almost as well known as the ch...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP
On The Record: listening choices for Epiphany to stir the heart and soul
british composer judith bingham typically uses imaginative and poetic performance directions in her scores. for the anthem “epiphany”, the e...
Alex Hodgkinson
Strings attached: Bradley Cooper's take on Leonard Bernstein is a success
julia hamilton loves bradley cooper’s take on leonard bernstein. this is not just any old biopic. this is bradley cooper’s stunning take on ...
Julia Hamilton
Strange bedfellows: Unlikely figures who rallied around the Traditional Latin Mass in the 60s and 70s
when the post-vatican ii liturgical reform was getting underway in 1966, and again when the reformed mass had been unveiled in 1971, petitio...
Joseph Shaw
John Studzinski receives major Catholic award in New York
investment banker and philanthropist john studzinski received the faith & culture award from the catholic new east welfare association (...
The Catholic Herald
‘On the tenth day of Christmas my true love sent to me’…A Wassail Cup for a party
since the celebrations are still going on, the following beverage is drunk as part of the tradition of "wassailing", an ancient english yule...
The Catholic Herald
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
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