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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 ...
The Catholic Herald
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...
The Catholic Herald
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....
The Catholic Herald
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...
The Catholic Herald
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 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
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