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What Anti-Masker Hypocrisy Teaches
from talking to them, you'd think they were undoubtedly anti-maskers, anti-social distancers, and anti-vaxxers. you'd bet good money they'd ...
David Mills
100 Catholic Writers & Artists 1921-2021
catholicism has always found expression in art – and art has derived much of its character from catholicism. a religion that has at its hear...
The Catholic Herald
Something strange is happening
christ's descent into limbo by andrea mantegna and studio, c. 1470 from an ancient homily for holy saturday somethin...
The Catholic Herald
Helping to Heal: Supporting abuse survivors
grief to grace uk turns ten this year. our mission is to support abuse survivors, particularly survivors of clergy abuse, by running a speci...
Fr Dominic Allain
Saying goodbye to God
the best catholics in the world: the irish, the church and the end of a special relationship derek scally, £16.99, 352pp, sandycove ________...
David Quinn
Craving outdoor rituals
the closing of churches over the past year has prompted many christians to reflect on the importance of regular worship, and to debate the r...
Theo Hobson
Reading, writing, rebellion
the most famous of all irish writers must be james joyce, the template for modern literature. the deceptive simplicity of dubliners has beco...
Mary Kenny
Touched by the hand of God
i had an epiphany during the recent lockdown. it arrived like tablets of stone, crated, requiring two men to lift, and least half an hour to...
Philip Mould
Pointed Arch: the glorious facade of the London Oratory
the ashlar facade of the london oratory, next to its neighbour the victoria and albert museum, continues to dominate the west end of the bro...
Michael Hodges
Too clever by half
double blind, edward st aubyn £20, 239 pages, harvill secker ________ the opening of edward st aubyn’s new novel, double blind , is as beaut...
Sophia Waugh
Too clever by half
the opening of edward st aubyn’s new novel, double blind , is as beautiful as it is unexpected. francis is taking a walk near his cottage, n...
Sophia Waugh
When Catholic Puritans Ruin Lent
he'd failed at lent. the poor man, despondent in the middle of his first lent, found he couldn't keep the disciplines. he felt farther from ...
David Mills
8 Years in a Nutshell
eighth anniversaries aren’t special. neither are administrative circulars. normally, i wouldn’t bother thinking about either, let alone writ...
Christopher Altieri
Colombian bishop responds to cathedral vandalism
ibague, colombia, mar 11, 2021 / 06:13 pm mt ( cna ) .- a colombian archbishop condemned an attack against a local cathedral march 8 by a gr...
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Pope Francis in Iraq: A Prayer for The Dead in Mosul
in mosul, the rubble of so-called is destruction is frequently indistinguishable from the rubble of incipient rebuilding, where efforts to r...
Christopher Altieri
Disney's Raya and the Last Dragon: More fluff than teeth
cover image: raya and the last dragon , © disney if disney’s raya and the last dragon seems familiar, that might be because…well, beca...
Steven D. Greydanus
Aramaic through the Ages
this essay is part two of a three-part series by sam sweeney, a writer and translator based in the middle east, who wrote most recently for ...
Sam Sweeney
Speed demons
do catholics, with their “special relationship” with death, make for faster and better racing drivers? is it just a coincidence that most of...
William Cash
Saints and Sales – Our top 10 religious bestsellers
there have been more than 260 popes since st peter. but it was not until paul vi that a pope had visited all five continents and not perhaps...
The Catholic Herald
Hopkins the Hermit
for gerard manley hopkins, the wilderness – especially in spring – was his dark, unforgiving city. a place not of pain and suffering but of ...
Nick Ripatrazone
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