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Saints for a new situation
everywhere in church circles today you hear a lament: our churches are emptying. we’ve lost our youth. this generation no longer knows or un...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Living out a vocation
what does it mean to have a vocation? the term gets batted around both in religious and secular circles, and everyone assumes its meaning is...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Giving baddies a good send-off
enough doom and gloom, says billy connolly, quoted in the london evening standard: he thinks the news needs cheering up. “move obituaries fr...
Andrew M Brown
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week i sunday, november 17 : the 33rd sunday in ordinary time mal 3:19-20a; ps 98; 2 thes 3:7-12; lk 21:5-1...
The Catholic Herald
Christ is our hidden strength, our hidden wisdom
the 33rd sunday of the year mal 3:19-20; 2 thess 3:7-12; lk 21:5-19 (year c) “the day is coming now, burning like a furnace; and all the arr...
Bishop David McGough
Was Shostakovich a dissident or a lackey?
shostakovich: critical lives by pauline fairclough reaktion books, 240pp, £11.99/$19 there’s a popular image of shostakovich – encouraged by...
Michael White
The Borgia story isn't all debauchery
the borgias: power and fortune by paul strathern atlantic books, 400pp, £25/$28.95 the dubious distinction of serving as the stereotypical e...
James Baresel
An absorbing twist on the police drama
criminal: uk (netflix) might sound boring to some potential viewers. take into consideration these details from episodes one and two. it has...
Carl Curtis
When atheists compose Masses
convincing catholic sacred music cannot be written by every gifted composer. when gustav mahler, a convert from judaism, was asked why he ha...
Benjamin Ivry
Leo XIII: the missionary prisoner
the recent decision by pope francis to add the feast of our lady of loreto to the universal calendar made me think of pope leo xiii, the mis...
Fr Raymond de Souza
Saints, authors and prime ministers: The dramatic story of Japanese Catholicism
after his apostolic visit to thailand later this month, pope francis will move on to japan, a land of saints and martyrs, but also a country...
Roy Peachey
The best drink I've had all year is a Stella
a new all-women’s club, allbright, is doing fantastically well in its branches in mayfair and fitzrovia. so well, in fact, that it’s opened ...
Harry Mount
Meanwhile: Dawkins backs religion?
would morality collapse if people stopped believing in god? today even bishops hesitate to suggest such a thing publicly, but the world’s be...
Staff writers
The week ahead: Pope's Far-East trip, Holodomor anniversary, lecture on anti-Catholic prejudice
pope francis’s trip to thailand and japan begins on tuesday november 19, when he flies from rome to bangkok. the visit will begin with a wel...
Staff writers
What I found helpful about ‘mindfulness’
my only experience of buddhism was during a visit to bhutan years ago, to visit a friend who was doing voluntary work there. we travelled th...
Melanie McDonagh
Prize crossword 0618
cryptic across 3 seals herman made for old king (11) 7 old anatolian capital african politicians promoted over a year (6)  ...
Alun Evans
When the Sadducees quizzed Jesus, he pointed them to Israel's traditions
the 32nd sunday of the year 2 macc 7:1-2 & 9-14; 2 thess 2:16 – 3:5; lk 20:27-38 (year c) november is a time for remem...
Bishop David McGough
The art critic who could have been a priest
the complete outsider by brian s ewell quartet, 628pp, £20/$27.50 by the end of his life, brian sewell (1931-2015) was o...
David Platzer
A grown-up guide to the Classics
of gods and men: 100 stories from ancient greece and rome edited by daisy dunn a pollo, 640pp, £25/$35 the word “anthology” ori...
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
The Marian masterpiece dedicated to a car manufacturer
prières pour notre dame: music for organ and upper voices by dupré, boulanger, demessieux, poulenc dir george richford regent there ca...
Francis O’Gorman
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