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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...
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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...
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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
Pride is the enemy of great art
and he said: let us make man to our image and likeness … and god created man to his own image: to the image of god he created him: male and ...
Joseph Pearce
The harsh truth about Iraqi Christianity
the international union for the conservation of nature has several categories to define the danger of extinction that various species face t...
Fr Benedict Kiely
Putin's unlikely friend
one of the marvels of the current parade of curious and dubious figures on the world stage is that american president donald trump is accuse...
Fr Raymond de Souza
The best of the web: Hilary Mantel, a brave father, and Salvini
how st thomas more lost his reputation the iona institute published a talk it recently hosted, by richard rex, professor of reformation hist...
Staff writers
What's stopping Pope Francis going to Moscow?
there is one man who always keeps the holy father waiting. three times in a row now he has arrived conspicuously late for a private audience...
The Catholic Herald
Prize crossword 0600
cryptic across 5 city of macedonia in amos philip rebuilt (10) 7 jerahmeel’s significant other one sailor’s taken to hospital (6) 8 mix-up s...
Alun Evans
How to… become a papal knight
the five categories of papal knighthood are, in descending rank, the supreme order of christ, the order of the golden spur, the order of piu...
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