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What courageous Mexico can teach the Catholic world
understanding world christianity: mexico by todd hartch fortress, 268pp, £19.99/$29 the history of christianity in mexico is certainly event...
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Does Holy Scripture really need 'rescuing'?
the lost art of scripture by karen armstrong bodley head, 560pp, £25/$29.95 karen armstrong is well known for her writings on comparative re...
Jack Carrigan
Resisting the Nazis with Newman
who today knows the legacy of john henry newman on conscience better than benedict xvi? he lived through the horrors of nazi germany and saw...
Paul Shrimpton
Can democracy survive without trust?
one of the hidden lessons from the parable of the good samaritan is how we all benefit when there is trust between human beings. as we know,...
Ann Widdecombe
With Cardinal Etchegaray's death, an era has ended
with the passing last week of cardinal roger etchegaray, we have taken a step closer to the end of an era in the life of the church: of clea...
Christopher R. Altieri
The week ahead: Home Mission, Wall Street, Cardinal Sarah's new book
sunday september 15 is home mission sunday in england and wales. it’s a day to pray for the church’s mission, and there’s a second collectio...
Staff writers
The big story: Debate heats up ahead of Amazon synod
what happened? divisions are growing over next month’s amazon synod, with one cardinal warning of “a situation never before seen in the chur...
Staff writers
The book about love and loss that everyone should read
jesus says that if we follow him the cross will find us. that message is chronically misunderstood. maybe we would understand it better if j...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
How I wrote a symphony about the Holy Spirit
i was an undergraduate in edinburgh way back in the late 1970s. among the reasons i went there was the opportunity to study composition with...
Sir James MacMillan
How to… Observe Ember Days
the ember days are four sets of three seasonal days of prayer, fasting and abstinence. they fall equidistant in the cycle of the year and ea...
The Catholic Herald
Inside Demmin: the town that could not go on living
promise me you’ll shoot yourself by florian huber allen lane, 304pp, £20/$24 this is an inauspicious title for a thought-provoking book. its...
Charlie Hegarty
Frederick II clashed with the Pope, but he was no secularist
the two powers by brett edward whalen university of pennsylvania press, 328pp, £70/$80 pope gregory ix (1227-1241) may not be among the most...
James Baresel
Does anyone know how to end religious violence?
confronting religious violence edited by richard a burridge and jonathan sacks scm press, 280pp, £25/$29.95 how do you solve a problem like ...
Jonathan Wright
Have Christians taken over DC? A Netflix documentary thinks so
as netflix originals’ the family tells it, the national prayer breakfast held annually in washington, dc, is the brainchild of a decades-old...
Carl Curtis
The Catholic writer who was Canada's answer to Thomas Hardy
born in north battleford, saskatchewan, to gaelic-speaking parents from cape breton, nova scotia, alistair macleod returned with his family ...
David Staines
Pope fiction: a new film could entrench myths about Benedict and Francis
the world premiere of the two popes, a film directed by fernando meirelles and written by anthony mccarten, took place at the telluride film...
Christopher R. Altieri
Greenland was once a Catholic bastion – then the Church vanished
a 13th-century norwegian chronicler thought long and hard about why anyone would want to settle greenland – the subject of a recent dispute ...
Jonathan Wright
How to… get to know St Augustine
the thinking of st augustine of hippo, a doctor of the church, is so influential, says pope benedict xvi, that he continues to leave a “deep...
The Catholic Herald
Humility is the path to glory
the 22nd sunday of the year eccl 3:17-20; heb 12:18-19 & 22-24; lk 14:1, 7-14 (year c) ‘my son, be gentle in carrying out your busi...
Bishop David McGough
'C'est stupide!': The gruelling cycle race through France's battlefields
riding in the zone rouge by tom isitt weidenfeld and nicolson, 302pp, £20/$24.50 within six months of the end of the first world war, a fren...
Simon Caldwell
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