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Pope condemns abortion but not those who advocate for abortion access
in a wide-ranging interview with reuters, pope francis sought to quash resignation rumours but may have only ignited them further, and while...
The Catholic Herald
Catholics cannot reject liturgical reforms of Vatican II, Pope says in new letter
catholics cannot say they accept the reforms second vatican council while rejecting its liturgy, pope francis has said in a fresh assault on...
CNA Staff
A formula for life
listening to the commentariat reacting to the infant-formula shortage in america earlier this month, it struck me just how unbearably compli...
Olenka Hamilton
Off the Beton track: Confession reviewed
confession (2022) should work. it has a reasonable director, david beton (the hatton garden job), and a decent cast: colm meaney and stephen...
Arabella Byrne
Photos of Palestine tell a troubled tale
the bride: an illustrated history of palestine 1850-1948 by roger hardy anthony eyre, £15, 320 pages this account of a momentous century in ...
Piers Brendon
Partnering for Peace
it is common knowledge that our island’s deep-rooted relationship with catholicism spans hundreds of years, stretching all the way back to t...
Kemi Badenoch MP
America's military complex
uncertain ground: citizenship in an age of endless, invisible war by phil klay penguin, $27, 272 pages leaving the marine corps in 2009 to e...
A S H Smyth
On the fall of Satan
on the first sunday in july, we read from the beginning of luke 10 about christ sending out 72 of his disciples as heralds of his coming. th...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP
Cutting liberalism down to size
liberalism and its discontents by francis fukuyama profile books £16.99, 192 pages the term “liberalism” is a monster that has grown large a...
Theo Hobson
Musical healing
sir james macmillan is a modest man for such a famous composer, but he knows what i mean when i compare him to god. composers, like other ar...
Gertrude Clarke
Muscular Christianity
eights week in oxford always heralds the approach of midsummer. the various college boats strive to outdo each other on the river, with triu...
Serenhedd James
Exaggerated greatness: The Wreckers reviewed
the most curious thing about dame ethel smyth’s the wreckers – a “neglected” opera, rescued from the shadows for this summer’s glyndebourne ...
Michael White
Last Call to become a Herald Compostela pilgrim this Holy Jubilee Year
there are still a few places left for our mini-camino in late july in which patrons and readers can pack in all that is best about the famou...
James Jeffrey
An "outstanding" opera and some "memorable" interpretations of Bach
margaret attwood’s scary story of existence under a pernicious christian fundamentalist regime, the handmaid’s tale , made grim readin...
Michael White
Beware the virtue signallers
douglas murray’s latest book, the war on the west , has catapulted public awareness of the severity of the culture wars into a new gear.&nbs...
Gavin Ashenden
Entertaining emperors
the emperors of byzantium kevin lygo thames & hudson, £25, 336 pages it hardly needs saying that any english writer who tackles the hist...
Robin Ward
On pilgrimage with Eamon Duffy
where would you go? to skellig michael. i went there in 1989 after my mother died and i had become rather agitated about my irish iden...
The Catholic Herald
Foreknowledge and freedom
martin luther is credited with arguing that, because god always knows what we are going to do, we can never act freely. on this view, human ...
Simon Gaine OP
O brother, where art thou?
i like abel ferrara. this is a pedestrian way to start a review, but given how much the bronx-born director divides opinion, it is germane t...
Arabella Byrne
Britten's "Peter Grimes" is a tale for our times
covent garden’s powerful production of "peter g rimes" pulls no punches, writes michael white the seaside town of aldeburgh, in suffolk, has...
Michael White
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