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Divine cameos at the Venice Film Festival
frank mannion seeks out god at an excellent 80th edition of the festival. the catholic church has long played a leading role at the venice f...
Frank Mannion
The Decomposition of Man: Identity, Technocracy, and the Church, by James Kalb
recovering our sanity. the decomposition of man: identity, technocracy, and the church james kalb angelico press, £17, 228 pages i am sittin...
Julian Kwasniewski
'As art degenerates around us, so too does unity in the Church'
“there is a separate entrance for those who are uncomfortable squeezing through the nude performers,” says bbc entertainment reporter steven...
Katherine Bennett
Integralism: How Catholics can lose friends and alienate people
in 1911, rh benson, the catholic convert son of the archbishop of canterbury, wrote a book called the dawn of all, set in 1973. this offered...
Gertrude Clarke
Pope in Marseille condemns 'velvet gloved' indifference to migrants
since pope francis in july 2013 first visited the small italian island of lampedusa, a primary destination for migrants seeking entry in eur...
Elise Allen
Budapest diary: Painful lessons from a city of beauty
it was very late when i arrived in budapest, but a consolation to be in a hotel close to the danube. to me, there is something sacred about ...
Simon Caldwell
Papal envoy in leopard print vestment causes social media frenzy
rome – a veteran vatican diplomat recently became a brief cause célèbre in italy after images of him celebrating mass in a leopard print cha...
Crux Staff
Critics are wrong to accuse Pope Pius XII of inactivity during Holocaust
pope john xxiii, that short-serving but consequential pontiff – he was in office for less than five years, but was responsible for convening...
Niall Gooch
Obituary: Alun Evans
farewell, axe. alun evans, 1949-2023 alun evans, who has died aged 73, was better known to readers of the catholic herald as “axe”, our vete...
The Catholic Herald
Pope dismisses critics of Synod as 'ideological' with an 'incapacity for dialogue'
aboard the papal plane – pope francis warned against the influence of what he called “ideology” on an upcoming synod of bishops at the vatic...
Elise Ann Allen
‘The best good in the world’: The US organisations leading a renaissance of Catholic sacred music
orange county – the place name conjuring images of the spray-tanned secular class splashing in the salty mist of the pacific ocean – may see...
Anna Farrow
Mongolia and the papacy: thinking in centuries
rome – legendarily, the vatican thinks in centuries. there’s a sense in which pope francis’s visit to mongolia this week, the first ever by ...
John L Allen
Pax Mongolica: Pope Francis praises the unifying legacy of Genghis Khan
ulaanbaatar – standing in a country that borders both russia and china, pope francis on saturday praised what he called mongolia’s foreign p...
Elise Allen
The Jesuit churches of Lancashire
three churches in the county still remain under jesuit control, but many more have been passed on to diocesan or other authorities . lancash...
Michael Hodges
Tolkien's lessons of hope for humanity, fifty years after his death
jrr tolkien died 50 years ago, on 2 september 1973. if you ask a fan of his work what they most struggle with in his epic lord of the rings ...
Ferdie Rous
Q&A with Dominic Rose of the Cedars School, Croydon
what did you do prior to becoming headmaster of the cedars and how long have you been in the role? prior to taking up my post as headmaster ...
The Catholic Herald
Oppenheimer, reviewed by Julia Hamilton
the film’s events are magnetically clustered around los alamos, finds julia hamilton. if you thought that christopher nolan’s last film, dun...
Julia Hamilton
How the Gospel presents the choice offered to us by Christ’s crucifixion
september sees the feast of the exaltation of the cross, and as the newly elected prior (much to my astonishment) and new parish priest of h...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP
Berlin archbishop permits same-sex blessings with impunity
a german archbishop has told priests they can confer blessings on same-sex couples without fear of punishment. the move by archbishop heiner...
Simon Caldwell
Portugal is facing the new world once again
with its sixth cardinal on the way and a papal visit to lisbon last month, a new special relationship between portugal and the v...
William Cash
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