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Christmas Issue
leaders a lockdownless christmas eu ruling over abortion harms us all the father’s christmas presence diary – lady antonia frase...
The Catholic Herald
Rich and strange, whether pastiche or homage
lily: a tale of revenge by rose tremain chatto & windus, £18.99, 288 pages ________ rose tremain is a prolific and prize-winning author,...
Helena Kelly
The flesh made word
collected poems rowan williams carcanet, £15.99, 249 pages ________ the poetry of rowan williams is full of moments when the known world bec...
Susannah Herbert
Maintaining the Christmas spirit
'i will honour christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” what a striking promise scrooge makes to the spirit of christmas yet...
Niall Gooch
GUIDE TO COUNTRY HOUSE CHAPELS
after the accession of elizabeth i in 1558, catholics were forced out of the ancient parish churches of england. by act of parliament, catho...
John Martin Robinson and Michael Hodges
Contemplating death at Christmas
we are winding up another year overshadowed by the coronavirus pandemic, and as we do so we are accompanied by hymns and carols heralding th...
Karl Gustel Warnberg
The long shadow of Covid
i have recently been reading david spiegelhalter and anthony masters’ covid by numbers: making sense of the pandemic with data (...
Stephen Bullivant
The Christmas Stories
there are all sorts of reasons why we choose the mass we usually go to: maybe it’s the music, or the lack of it, or the bells and smells, or...
Rev Dr Richard J Ounsworth
Loveliest of trees, the chestnut now
there is a huge chestnut tree 50 yards from my study. chestnut trees make a lot of mess – shedding their conkers, spiky shells and leaves th...
charlie-hart
The Christmas Stories
there are all sorts of reasons why we choose the mass we usually go to: maybe it’s the music, or the lack of it, or the bells and smells, or...
Rev Dr Richard J Ounsworth
The long shadow of Covid
i have recently been reading david spiegelhalter and anthony masters’ covid by numbers: making sense of the pandemic with data (pelican, 202...
Stephen Bullivant
The last surviving Trappist monk from Algeria massacre has died at 97
father jean pierre schumacher, one of two monks who survived the tibhirine abbey massacre in algeria in 1996, has died at the age of 97. sch...
Courtney Mares
Catholics invited to make pilgrimage in Dante’s footsteps in anniversary year
ravenna, italy, nov 11, 2021 / 04:20 am the poet dante famously traveled through hell, purgatory, and paradise in his masterpiece the “divin...
CNA Staff
How Vatican City State’s government is changing under Pope Francis
vatican city, nov 9, 2021 / 03:00 am the recent appointment of new leaders at the vatican city state shows pope francis’ determination to br...
andrea-gagliarducci
Vatican to open contemporary art gallery in historic papal library
vatican city, nov 3, 2021 / 14:00 pm the vatican’s historic library has created a new space for hosting temporary art exhibitions. pop...
Hannah Brockhaus
Abuse survivor receives payout after she was 're-traumatised' by slurs in complaints process
a woman abused by a priest as a teenager has become the first person to receive a pay-out over treatment she received from the church follow...
Simon Caldwell
On pilgrimage: Rachel Johnson takes the Two Moors Way
where would you go? the two moors way as i’ve always wanted to walk from exmoor to dartmoor, and would stop at the poltimore arms, high on e...
The Catholic Herald
A hymn to English church music
evensong: people, discoveries and reflections on the church in england by richard morris weidenfeld & nicolson, £25, 336 pages if you st...
Matthew Lyons
Diary: Petronella Wyatt on carrying her inner child
sometimes i think that god is very far away. i recall that the protestant martyr anne askew said, quoting christ, that he saw ever...
Petronella Wyatt
The coming King
in november, we reach the end of the church’s liturgical year, and the readings direct our minds towards the end of all things. traditionall...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP
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