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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
Jerusalem's archives: a tantalising glimpse of a lost world
jerusalem: city of the book by merav mack and benjamin balint yale, 272pp, £20/$30 is there anything new that can be said about jerusalem, t...
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
How Woodstock ended in a trash-strewn quagmire
woodstock: three days that defined a generation (bbc iplayer/amazon prime/pbs) offers a somewhat unexpected picture of the 1969 rock festiva...
Carl Curtis
The strange decline of Catholic hymns
when pope honorius crowned the fourth lateran council (1215) by proclaiming the new feast of corpus christi – a triduum of joy from the thur...
Anthony Esolen
The Communal First Saturdays devotion is spreading
a new movement dedicated to fulfilling a request made by the blessed virgin mary at fatima has arrived in britain. the communal first saturd...
Simon Caldwell
The week ahead: Retreat, Pope in Africa, Day with Mary
fr jacques philippe comes to london next week, to give a weekend retreat at holy apostles church, pimlico. fr philippe, whose books have sol...
Staff writers
Heretic of the week: Charles Webster Leadbeater
cw leadbeater (1854-1934) was a most remarkable – not to say bizarre – man. of middle-class background, he was ordained an anglican clergyma...
Charles Coulombe
God can't be known through casual acquaintance
the 21st sunday of the year is 66:18-21; heb 12:5-7 & 11-13; lk 13:22-30 (year c) the book of isaiah concludes with a vision of unsurpas...
Bishop David McGough
Don't try to pigeonhole Cardinal Müller
i will not describe cardinal gerhard müller, formerly prefect of the congregation for the doctrine of the faith, as a “conservative” cardina...
Francis Phillips
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