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How Latin opens up the world
the trouble with these boys is that the masters have been talking to them about the parthenon when they should have been talking to them abo...
Dominic Sullivan
Singing together again
it was sunday morning, and i was wallowing in a deep bath when my hostess knocked on the door. “mass is at ten. will you play?” this is not ...
Serenhedd James
Chowing down on chimichurri with St Cornelius
the patron saint for september is st cornelius, who was also a pope. he is the patron saint of cattle, so needless to say i am doing my reci...
Tessa Balfour
Analysis: What's behind rumors that Pope Francis will resign?
rome, italy, aug 30, 2021 / 00:00 am despite ongoing rumors, there is no confirmation that pope francis is drafting a document that defines ...
andrea-gagliarducci
A bonfire of Europe’s vanity
like the proverbial bus, you wait for an exhibition of catholic cultural interest to come along and then two show up at once. as nobody noti...
Lucien de Guise
Cracking the Tudors’ courtly code
the tudors in love: the courtly code behind the last medieval dynasty by sarah gristwood oneworld, £20, 400 pages ________ sarah gristwood i...
Alison Weir
‘An indelible mark on the soul’
just four days after the assisted dying bill was introduced into the house of lords, bishop mark davies of shrewsbury issued a pastoral lett...
Simon Caldwell
Catholic Herald Magazine – August 2021
leaders why catholic journalism matters should president biden be barred from communion? threats to the extraordinary form diary tom tugendh...
The Catholic Herald
The crack in the Toby Jug
there was bound to be disappointment when, two years ago, the church in the person of rev peter doyle, bishop of northampton rejected the ca...
Richard Ingrams
On Pilgrimage with Emma Bridgewater
where would you go? the walking around stoke-on-trent is pretty amazing. i know the area because it is where our factories ar...
The Catholic Herald
The miracle of St Fillan
who is the patron saint of mental illness? we hear much today about the need to help the mentally ill, dejected and depressed. but for those...
William Cash
Playing to the crowd
hogarth: life in progress by jacqueline riding profile books, £30, 534 pages william hogarth (1697-1764) has a good claim to being the first...
Fram Dinshaw
Denny’s divine inspiration
b (after dante) by ned denny carcanet press, £18.99, 348 pages there are translations, and there are adaptations. the translator’s ar...
Jonathan Gaisman
Jiggery-popery in revolting England
catholics during the english revolution, 1642-1660: politics, sequestration and loyalty, by eilish gregory boydell press, £75, 234 pag...
John Adamson
Don't apologise for the inquisition
reviewing a book called inquisition: the reign of fear by toby green, quentin de la bedoyere warns against apologetic attempts to rationaliz...
Lessons from the Archives
Elizabeth Jennings: The Catholic bag-lady of poetry
the poet elizabeth jennings was born on this day in 1926. a devout catholic, she attended st anne's college, oxford, where she lived all her...
FromtheArchives
The English team, he says, is the "enemy of truth, beauty, and goodness"
yes, someone said that. and not a crank either, or at least not the angry living-in-his-mother's-basement crank you meet on the internet. hi...
David Mills
Christian leaders write to South Sudanese politicians on 10th anniversary of independence
the tenth anniversary of south sudan’s birth as an independent nation “calls to mind your past struggles and points with hope to the future,...
Staff Reporter
The Catholic Herald reviews The Hobbit
the catholic herald reviewed j. r. r. tolkien's the hobbit about a month after it appeared. the review in the "children's catholic her...
FromtheArchives
C. S. Lewis: At first sight a disappointment
the poet elizabeth jennings reviews a book of reminiscences about c. s. lewis, whom she heard lecture when a student at st anne's college. t...
FromtheArchives
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