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Exhibition review: The World of Stonehenge
there is a certain apophatic quality to the world of stonehenge at the british museum, which is defined by the absence at its ce...
Serenhedd James
"Everything is in God's hands now," says Ukrainian priest
lviv, ukraine. i met with father nesto kysyk the same morning four russian cruise missiles slammed into a military aircraft hangar on the ed...
John Cookson
March Issue – A Fighting Order
leaders the order of malta has the right to control its affairs walk this way to level up britain the us church must encourage freedom from ...
The Catholic Herald
From temptation to Transfiguration
on the first two sundays of lent we always hear the same gospel stories, of the temptations of christ in the wilderness and of the transfigu...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP
Female clergy make unity an impossibility
there was a period after the anglican-roman catholic international commission agreement on ministry and ordination had been published – even...
Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali
Pope ends impasse over Order of Malta
pope francis has directly intervened to end an impasse between the vatican and the sovereign military order of malta over controversial refo...
Simon Caldwell
Pope and circumstance
on saturday 8 october, the parliament choir have been invited to perform elgar’s the dream of gerontius in san paolo fuori le mura, the papa...
Lord German
Go vegan for Lent
lent, the time of fast and abstinence before easter, is based on christ’s time in the wilderness, described in the first chapter of mark’s g...
Gertrude Clarke
The rocks of ages on which British mysticism is built
stonehenge is one of the most famous monuments in the world. the outline of the trilithons, the great gate-like constructions that form its ...
Rosemary Hill
Too much to Handel
what’s the difference between oratorio and opera?” is a tricky question. for the most part, oratorios are spiritual, reflective works perfor...
Michael White
Diary: The season of grief is marked by hope, says Sarah Sands
since october, my father has been unwell in a nursing home and my mother has been keeping him company there. we said that we would see how t...
sarah sands
Francis Bacon: the body and blood
the royal academy has been transformed for francis bacon: man and beast. there are no more cheerful cascades of summer exhibition paintings;...
Lucien de Guise
More to St Paul’s than religion
in the shadow of st paul’s cathedral: the churchyard that shaped london by margaret willes yale university press, pp. 320, £25 the romanists...
Robert Gray
Pope reorganises Congregation of Doctrine of the Faith amid Vatican internal reforms
pope francis has reorganized the internal structure of the vatican’s doctrine office into two sections — the latest step in his ongoing refo...
Hannah Brockhaus
Putin's take on the "Russian Idea"
in 2014 vladimir putin recommended three books for his regional governors to read: justification of the good , by vladimir solovyov; philoso...
Mark Jenkins
Pope’s gift for publicity has its dangers
pope francis has done it again. he has got himself into the news – on social media – by turning up at a record shop in rome to spend 10 minu...
The Catholic Herald
My road to Mount Athos
the sun was setting to the west as i stood upon a vantage point known to the byzantine residents of constantinople as hagios demetrios. it w...
Mark Jenkins
The steep and rugged pathway
february promises longer days and the first glimmers of spring, but its arrival also heralds the approach of lent on 2 march. ash wednesday ...
Niall Gooch
Festive fortunes
when opera composers take up the bible it isn’t usually in search of spiritual instruction. nothing of the sort was on his mind when verdi r...
Michael White
On His Majesty’s imperial service
like all abstractions, empire is best understood when considered in terms of individuals, their motivation and experience. the current cult ...
Jeremy Black
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