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My metaphysical friend is running for president
yet more americans have been killed in mass shootings: 22 in el paso, texas, and 10 in dayton, ohio. it’s senseless. i love america but this...
Tim Stanley
The best of the web: Cathedrals, the Elgin Marbles, and junk news
what cathedral installations reveal at father ed’s blog, fr ed tomlinson asked why anglican cathedrals are putting tourist attractions in th...
Staff writers
Prize crossword 0605
cryptic across 7 house within diocese is retro brown (6) 8 nice fathers sacked in gorbachev’s plan for russian transport (6) 9 joint effort ...
Alun Evans
How to… Understand the Assumption
the assumption of the blessed virgin mary has always been a teaching within the tradition of the catholic church and the orthodox church, wh...
The Catholic Herald
What remains of the 'Protestant work ethic' theory?
the wealth of religions edited by rachel mccleary and robert barro princeton, 160pp, £24/$29.95 i can only assume that i am the target of an...
Jonathan Wright
Olivier Roy: an impartial observer of Europe's crises
is europe christian? by olivier roy hurst, 112pp, £14.99/$19.99 everything seems to be about identity these days: politics, culture – even r...
Samuel Gregg
Russell Kirk's fiction is unjustly ignored
the writings of catholic convert russell kirk exert no more than a marginal influence outside of limited circles, which is a common cause fo...
James Baresel
China and its critics should both take a close look at the past
in a recent article in this magazine, tim stanley upped the ante by suggesting that the government of china is “pure evil”. his observation ...
Lucien de Guise
Could Catholicism have made Hemingway a great novelist?
ernest hemingway was reared by church-going parents as a congregationalist. his first son was christened in the church of england. then soon...
Allan Massie
The unnamable violence: Why the West is silent about the wave of desecration
on july 14, parishioners of saint-budoc à porspoder in france learned that a vandal or vandals had vomited in the parish’s holy water stoups...
Matthew Schmitz
Meanwhile: golf and a 'Godincidence'
it’s known as one of britain’s most venerable cathedrals: the central site of england’s second-oldest diocese, the former seat of st john fi...
Staff writers
How to… Survive soporific sermons
the gospel carries tremendous power when preached with honesty and conviction. it can therefore be disappointing when a priest preaches...
The Catholic Herald
The futility of measuring our lives by what we own
the 18th sunday of the year eccl 1:2 & 2:21-23; col 3:11-5 & 9-11; lk 12:13-21 (year c) "make us know the shortness of our...
Bishop David McGough
We're doomed, so let's have a nice cup of tea
the selfish ape by nicholas p money reaktion books, 152pp, £14.99/$20 nicholas money’s new book, subtitled human nature and our path to exti...
Matt Thorne
Mahler's anguished but enduring faith
in 1860, gustav mahler was born into a german-speaking jewish family in the bohemian village of kaliště, then part of the austrian empire. w...
Peter Davison
Half of US Catholics think the Eucharist is only symbolic. How did this happen?
a news item last week reminded me of a story about the writer flannery o’connor. in one of her letters collected in the habit of being she d...
Fr Dwight Longenecker
The week in quotations
"for a man to suggest female ordination ... is an example of male arrogance ... men are not normative for the human race" sister helena burn...
Staff writers
Prize crossword 0603
cryptic across 6 1 coming from lindisfarne, after the great north road, goes by the book (5) 7 benjamin’s place in chat show is to engage ho...
Alun Evans
The novelist who defied a spirit-crushing system to achieve greatness
vasily grossman and the soviet century by alexandra popoff yale university press, 424pp, £25/$32.50 vasily grossman is one of the tower...
Thelma Lovell
The Catholic doctor whose ruse saved Jewish lives
the documentary-maker stephen edwards’s most distinguished musical work is the score for his requiem for my mother (2017). the requiem was p...
Deal Hudson
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