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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
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
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