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The episode that showed François Mauriac at his best
in a celebrated interview in the observer in 1963, graham greene was asked if he was happy to be described as a catholic novelist. his respo...
The Catholic Herald
How do we cope when it is hard to hope?
every year we spend most of the season of advent uttering this prayer: “may inherit the great promise in which now we dare to hope.” why is ...
Fr Peter John Cameron
Herald Top 10: Carl Curtis: Good Omens is a travesty of eschatology
good omens on amazon prime is a five and one-half hour exercise in schoolboy humour, that is, a brand of humour practised by witty adolescen...
Carl Curtis
Church reform requires personal conversion, Pope Francis tells Roman Curia
to carry out the continuing reform of the church requires a willingness to change and a commitment to personal conversion, pope francis said...
Hannah Brockhaus/CNA
Cathedral in Iraq's largest Christian town to be rebuilt in 2020
the great al-tahira immaculate conception cathedral in bakhdida remains charred black inside, five years after the islamic state plundered a...
Howard Kiernan
How to… Celebrate Christmas Eve
christmas eve is observed differently according to local cultures and traditions but it remains essentially a vigil ahead of the major feast...
The Catholic Herald
Are we ready for the Council of Nairobi?
when bishops meet by john w o’malley harvard university press, 223pp, £20/$24.95 how many bishops does it take to change the course of catho...
Jonathan Wright
Who creates better characters: Marvel or Scorsese?
i recently read a review by dan sanchez of martin scorsese’s the irishman (netflix), “why the marvel movies are better than scorsese's the i...
Deal Hudson
Chesterton's Christmas poems were mediocre – but his prose dazzles
the author most associated with the joy and glow of christmas is obviously charles dickens. apart from the perennially popular christmas car...
Joseph Pearce
How a mediæval carol was saved from obscurity
a young woman is singing her baby to sleep, crooning words of tenderness: “lullay mine liking, my dear son, my sweeting; lullay my dear hear...
Eleanor Parker
Milan Kundera and the long argument with 'home'
it has been a long road back: the author milan kundera, perhaps the most famous living czech, recently had his citizenship restored to him a...
Jenny McCartney
'The ways deep, the weather sharp': A journey in the Magi's footsteps
as a child i found it hard to believe that the world east of bethlehem was real at all. this was a region where fire might fall from heaven ...
Peter Hitchens
A culture of 'openness' has bred dark fears and constant outrage
in early december i leapt across the pond for a short visit to the great capital city of england. even in inward-looking america we were awa...
R.R. Reno
Kerala's radiant Catholicism
last month, pope francis and i were airborne over asia together. in the air at the same time, but on different planes going in opposite dire...
Fr Raymond de Souza
The best of the web
a golden age for films about christianity we live in a golden age of films about religious belief, declared philip jenkins in the christian ...
Staff writers
Cathedral in Iraq's largest Christian town to be rebuilt in 2020
the great al-tahira immaculate conception cathedral in bakhdida remains charred black inside, five years after the islamic state plundered a...
The Catholic Herald
The best spiritual books of 2019
around this time i am trying to decide which books i have read during the year that still reverberate in my memory in a special way. it is a...
Francis Phillips
Archbishop Paglia's grave error
accompaniment has been a watchword of the pontificate of pope francis. it’s a word which normally means that musical part which gives harmon...
C C Pecknold
Morning Catholic must-reads: 13/12/19
“nuclear deterrence can only produce the illusion of security,” pope francis has said in his 2020 world day of peace message ( vatican summa...
Luke Coppen
Divided? Yes. But there's plenty of kindness and optimism in the UK
during the general election campaign, an american journalist from the new york times paid an extensive visit to britain, and reported back t...
Mary Kenny
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