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Christopher Koch: A novelist for an age with no answers
the catholic imagination of christopher koch, the australian novelist most remembered for the year of living dangerously (1978),&n...
Karl Schmude
Was the original Walsingham statue really destroyed – or is it in the V&A?
in 1539 the simple wooden statue of our lady of walsingham that stood beside the altar of walsingham’s holy house, venerated by kings, ...
The Catholic Herald
Which America?
earlier this month, a conference on “national conservatism” in washington, dc, showed that the terms of debate on the american right are cha...
Matthew Schmitz
'The Bible is my rehab book': Faith and recovery at the Nehemiah Project
the nehemiah project is a christian rehabilitation programme that works with men to overcome drug and alcohol addictions in the london ...
Aaron Benavides
Meanwhile: Facebook removes St Augustine's hate speech
st augustine of hippo has been targeted by facebook for ‘‘hate speech’’. two priests quoted the 5th-century saint’s warning a...
Staff writers
The best of the web: Notre Dame, Duterte, and the decline of a godless church
notre-dame’s close call: the inside story the new york times “conducted scores of interviews and reviewed hundreds of documents” for a long ...
Staff writers
The week ahead: Summer fair, prayer for priests, acts of reparation
saturday august 3 is the westminster cathedral summer fair, from 11am to 3pm in the cathedral hall. pimms will be served at this fundraising...
Staff writers
Heretic of the week: Ignatius Loyola Donnelly
ignatius loyola donnelly (1831-1901) was born in philadelphia to an irish catholic immigrant family. his father, a doctor, died young, and h...
Charles Coulombe
Vigilance is the price of being a Christian
here is the collect for the 16th ordinary sunday. it has an antecedent in a 9th-century manuscript. enjoy the fine clausula (rhythmic ending...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
It is in moments of worry that the Lord comes to us
"abraham looked up, and there he saw three men standing before him. as soon as he saw them he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them...
Bishop David McGough
Fulton Sheen's brilliant guide to Jesus's last hours
stephen f auth’s the missionary of wall street (sophia institute press, 184pp, £14.40/$15) is subtitled from managing money to saving souls ...
Francis Phillips
Tippett was silly and pretentious, but his works are masterpieces
michael tippett: the biography by oliver soden weidenfeld and nicolson, 768pp, £25/$34.95 it’s virtually a law of nature that composers fall...
Michael White
The saint who brought the best out of Dvořák
you think you know antonín dvořák’s music quite well when you are aware not just of his greatest hits but also of the fascinating early symp...
Jens F Laurson
Letters & emails
a weakened china will seek scapegoats sir – the leading article in your july 5 issue emphasises something that is too often overlooked or do...
The Catholic Herald
Britons may as well be living in the Soviet Union
a christian, felix ngole, has won a court action against sheffield university which threw him off his social worker course because he h...
Ann Widdecombe
Wolf Hall: When ingenious fiction meets public ignorance
just in time for the publication of the mirror and the light, the third and final volume of hilary mantel’s trilogy about the life of t...
Melanie McDonagh
How to… join the papal nobility
in spite of a succession of reforms in the modern era, including the second vatican council, the catholic church has never abolished the pap...
The Catholic Herald
The Good Samaritan reveals the meaning of baptism
fifteenth sunday of the year deut 30:10-14; col 1:15-20; lk 10:25-37 (year c) "christ jesus is the image of the unseen god and the firstborn...
Bishop David McGough
Can anything halt the fragmentation of the West?
the demons of liberal democracy by adrian pabst polity, 160pp, £13/$19.95 throughout his new book, adrian pabst patrols the frontier where t...
Michael Duggan
An old-fashioned whodunit – without the class and wit
mystery fans will recall their favourite husband and wife teams: tommy and tuppence, lord peter and harriet, and, especially from film, nick...
Carl Curtis
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