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In the spiritual battle, what banner do we rally to?

there are cyclamen growing wild beneath the trees and the canopy of the forest begins to turn from deep green to burnished red and gold. it ...

Fr Dominic Allain

Not just breakfast: How Tiffany revolutionised the stained-glass window

eternal light by catherine shotick d giles, 82pp, £20/$25 in the 19th century artistic movements attempted to revive styles associated with ...

James Baresel

War and peace in faerieland

carnival row (amazon prime drama series) opens with a prologue, as a tale of strange places, peoples and creatures must. it’s spoken by vign...

Carl Curtis

The tiny chalice that tells the story of Lithuania's heroic priests

the highlight of the consistory for new cardinals on october 5 will be the bestowal of the red hat on archbishop sigitas tamkevičius, emerit...

Fr Raymond de Souza

Amazon synod: Will the faith get lost in the rainforest?

for three weeks in october, 185 bishops, missionaries and scholars, mostly from south america and europe, will meet in rome at amazon synod....

Todd Hartch

Diary: We academics can benefit from Newman's understanding of the heart

diaries are a dizzying technology. they are a subject equally worthy of a sonnet and a philosophical treatise. even the most humble daily re...

Michael Hurley

Pope Francis has the tools to reduce tensions. Will he use them?

if there were a way to convey in a single sentence what is needed amid all the talk of schism, it would be, “everybody calm down: things are...

Christopher R. Altieri

Quotes of the week

"we have fallen into the culture of adjectives and adverbs, and we have forgotten the strength of nouns" pope francis speech to employees of...

Staff writers

The week ahead: The rosary and Paul Thigpen

october is the month of the rosary, and there will be many events at churches and elsewhere. in london on saturday october 12, there will be...

Staff writers

Heretic of the week: Joseph Murphy

one of the many joys of my youth was perusing the saturday religion section of the los angeles times. among other things in the babbling bro...

Charles Coulombe

'I felt like weeping for the sheer beauty': the philosophers who found Catholicism

here is an invaluable collection of 10 essays, all written by american academic philosophers, which demonstrates, particularly to those who ...

Francis Phillips

Think angels are nice but a bit boring? You couldn't be more wrong

at the beginning of the screwtape letters, cs lewis notes that the devil is equally pleased by two errors about him: an unhealthy obsession ...

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Tom Holland's Diary: Why I never finished the Camino

writing my most recent book felt rather like going on a pilgrimage. the theme of dominion: the making of the western mind , which came out e...

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William Blake review: a strangely utilitarian portrait of a visionary

william blake lies in bunhill fields cemetery in london, a couple of hundred yards away from the catholic herald’s office. his grave was rec...

David V Barrett

My neighbour, 'the dad who gave birth'

earlier this month, bbc two showed a documentary called seahorse: the dad who gave birth, which was made in deal, kent, where i dwell (the d...

Mary Kenny

Newman's profoundly subversive advice for Christian politicians

is a christian who believes that abortion is wrong in every case or that marriage can only be between a man and a woman suitable for public ...

Jack Valero

German media accuse Francis of 'stabbing bishops in the back'

a vatican cardinal’s warning that plans for a binding synodal process in germany appear to be “ecclesiologically invalid” and not in accorda...

Anian Christoph Wimmer

Meanwhile: Abba inside the Vatican, 'Day of Sobriety'

you might imagine that vatican officials would only listen to monteverdi and palestrina. but archbishop paul gallagher, the holy see’s forei...

Staff writers

A schism in the US? What Pope Francis really thinks

it all began with a book. on the papal plane to africa, the french journalist nicolas senèze gave the holy father a copy of his latest work....

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Seeing Rome through the eyes of Oscar Wilde

great cities through travellers' eyes edited by peter furtado thames and hudson, 368pp, £19.99/$29.95 in this commendably ambitious book, th...

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In the spiritual battle, what banner do we rally to?

Not just breakfast: How Tiffany revolutionised the stained-glass window

War and peace in faerieland

The tiny chalice that tells the story of Lithuania's heroic priests

Amazon synod: Will the faith get lost in the rainforest?

Diary: We academics can benefit from Newman's understanding of the heart

Pope Francis has the tools to reduce tensions. Will he use them?

Quotes of the week

The week ahead: The rosary and Paul Thigpen

Heretic of the week: Joseph Murphy

'I felt like weeping for the sheer beauty': the philosophers who found Catholicism

Think angels are nice but a bit boring? You couldn't be more wrong

Tom Holland's Diary: Why I never finished the Camino

William Blake review: a strangely utilitarian portrait of a visionary

My neighbour, 'the dad who gave birth'

Newman's profoundly subversive advice for Christian politicians

German media accuse Francis of 'stabbing bishops in the back'

Meanwhile: Abba inside the Vatican, 'Day of Sobriety'

A schism in the US? What Pope Francis really thinks

Seeing Rome through the eyes of Oscar Wilde

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