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How St Benedict's abbey survived Goths, Saracens and Nazis
‘next time you invade italy, don’t start at the bottom.” that was the post-war puckish advice to a british officer from the german general i...
Allan Mallinson
The abuse crisis is Satan's masterpiece - but he will be defeated
bishop barron has just published the fatherly letter on the sexual abuse crisis i’ve been longing to read. he begins with an arresting image...
C C Pecknold
Beijing and Rome can work together, Parolin tells Chinese media
in an interview with a chinese state-run publication, vatican secretary of state cardinal pietro parolin welcomed the opportunity for china ...
Courtney Grogan/CNA
Meet the evangelists saving souls in Wall Street
as i write this book blog i am reminded that may 13 is the feast of our lady of fatima. in one of her apparitions, our lady told the little ...
Francis Phillips
Communion and the Church's mess
there was an odd story from holy week about the new man in the chilean capital, santiago. bishop celestino aós, the apostolic administrator ...
Fr Raymond de Souza
Letters & Emails
the betrayal of the church in china sir – your leader, “east of eden” (may 3), expresses timely if overly respectful doubt about current vat...
The Catholic Herald
The Week in Quotations
"christians are confused… each day in rome i receive discouraged and suffering priests. the church is going through the dark night" cardinal...
The Catholic Herald
Christ is our Shepherd. He cares about each one of us
our limited imaginations will always struggle to grasp the all-embracing nature of christ’s resurrection. life’s inevitable wounds and our f...
Bishop David McGough
Even Bach struggled to capture the Resurrection in music
bach’s two great surviving passions – st matthew and st john – conclude at the tomb. there is no resurrection music. bach knows, of course, ...
Francis O’Gorman
The Big Story: Academics accuse the Pope of heresy
what happened? a group of academics and priests have accused pope francis of committing the canonical crime of heresy. the group, which incl...
The Catholic Herald
From American Psycho to Charlie Hebdo
in may 2015, some 200 members of pen america, a respected literary organisation to which many writers belong, decided not to present the sur...
Ian Thomson
Look closely and you can find the saints in Shakespeare
when most of us think of shakespeare we don’t immediately connect him with the saints. we might think of the play sir thomas more, on which ...
Joseph Pearce
How the abundance of nature expresses the love of God
i had a few hours free and from somewhere, i am not sure exactly where, came a compelling desire to see bluebells. i took myself to the roya...
Fr Dominic Allain
The Best of the Web: France, St Augustine and bad thoughts
against romantic melancholy on france at first things, nathan pinkoski and jean-baptiste pateron said that “conservative romantics who love ...
Staff writers
Film on Austrian priest killed by Nazis gets Iowa world premiere
the film "otto neururer: hope through darkness," based on the life of the first austrian priest killed in a nazi concentration camp, had its...
Catholic News Service
Pope commends North Macedonians for respect among cultures, ethnic identities
speaking to north macedonian authorities tuesday, pope francis commended the country for its tradition of peaceful coexistence among its var...
Catholic News Agency
L'Arche founder Jean Vanier dies aged 90
jean vanier, the founder of l’arche, has died in paris, aged 90. in a statement on l'arche’s website announcing vanier’s death, its leaders ...
David Oldroyd-Bolt
Christian persecution 'near genocide levels'
the worldwide persecution of christians is at near “genocide” level, a report for the british government has said the review, led by the ang...
Nick Hallett
Neo-paganism is at the dark heart of the alt-right movement
katie mchugh, who gained fame as a provocateur of the white nationalist “alt-right,” has left the movement. in a recent interview , mchugh’s...
C C Pecknold
If Kate Smith's statue falls, what about Margaret Sanger's?
the past few years have witnessed in these united states an orgy of something once thought confined to revolutionary dictatorships: the mass...
Charles Coulombe
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