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The Word this Week: Our alienation and the Father's gift
solemnity of the resurrection the scriptures throughout the easter liturgy, beginning with the easter vigil itself, tell our story. it is a ...
Bishop David McGough
Wren brought Rome to London – without ever going there
sir christopher wren by paul rabbitts shire publications, 96pp, £9.99/$14 displaying a typically victorian aversion to the classicising aest...
James Baresel
The Nobel laureate who brought the Gospel to his atheist readers
we should not be surprised if a major catholic writer reflects on the great mysteries of his faith. françois mauriac (1885-1970) was awarded...
Francis Phillips
'We do not want pretty pictures': What Munch meant by the Scream
most people assume that the figure in edvard munch’s the scream is screaming. it’s not. it’s reacting to an event: “i felt a great scream pa...
David V Barrett
Benedict's statement lays bare the Church's divisions
benedict xvi’s decision to break his silence cannot have been made lightly. at the time of his resignation, the former pope announced his in...
Matthew Schmitz
A century ago, the war was our hidden national trauma. Today it's dementia
a hundred years ago britain was in trauma: there was hardly a family in the land that had not been left bereaved by the first world war. als...
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
As their freedoms disappear, how long can Hong Kong's Christians hold out?
on march 30, hundreds of hong kong christians prayed on a way of the cross march for nine activists facing jail after calling for democracy....
Benedict Rogers
The east London tower block with daily Adoration
every friday night an international group of sisters who live on the 13th floor of an east london tower block open their doors for a communi...
Bernadette Kehoe
Meanwhile: Yes, encyclicals are getting longer
catholics sometimes wonder whether papal encyclicals have got rather long in recent decades. now a researcher has confirmed the trend. sharo...
Staff writers
The best of the web: art patrons, proselytism and Catholic colleges
the decline – and return? – of patronage “for centuries,” wrote benjamin sutton at the art market website artsy, “the catholic church was on...
Staff writers
The big story: Benedict XVI offers history lesson on abuse
what happened? pope emeritus benedict xvi has published a 6,000-word essay on the abuse crisis, tracing its historical roots and arguing tha...
Staff writers
It's her cathedral. But somehow, Our Lady has been forgotten
almost without exception, the response to the notre dame fire has overlooked something of immense importance. or rather someone: notre...
Rachel Fulton Brown
What Benedict XVI can tell us about Holy Thursday
the last supper is often likened to the jewish passover. the synoptic gospels suggest that it was on a thursday evening at the start of pass...
C C Pecknold
Rooster from Notre Dame spire saved from rubble
a copper rooster containing relics and thought to have been destroyed in the collapse of notre-dame de paris has been found damaged but inta...
Catholic News Agency
The symbolism of the Notre Dame fire is too great to ignore
i am still moved by the sight of notre dame de paris engulfed in flames during the most sacred week of the christian year. the intense array...
C C Pecknold
Notre Dame is not, and never should be, just a museum
much as already been written, even hours after the devastating fire at the cathedral of notre dame de paris, about the “iconic status” of th...
Fr Benedict Kiely
Why did Benedict mention the Eucharist in his abuse essay?
in the third part of benedict xvi’s letter on the theological roots of the abuse crisis in the church and in culture, he relates two differe...
C C Pecknold
Chaput: 'Secular inquisitors' are the enemies of religious freedom
the once christian culture of the west has forgotten its roots, archbishop charles chaput said friday, warning that basic principles of huma...
Catholic News Agency
Our tribalism stops us acknowledging the truth
the athenian academy began with that socratic insight that in order to see the final end, we must purify our lives through a philosophical f...
C C Pecknold
Our own Good Friday
when the romans designed crucifixion as their means of capital punishment, they had more in mind than simply putting someone to death. they ...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
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