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The unredeemed universe of Game of Thrones
to those not of a squeamish nature and who don’t mind the occasional beheading or people being eaten by their own dogs, this sunday sees the...
Ed West
How to… Observe Tenebrae
tenebrae is a passiontide service now rarely observed in the catholic church. tenebrae is the latin for “darkness” and the ceremony involved...
The Catholic Herald
This Sunday, sing your Hosannas with a difference
with our jewish forebears singing at passover, and with countless catholic generations, at every mass we cry to the lord, “we beseech you, s...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
What to pray for as Holy Week begins
palm sunday is 50:4-7; phil 2:6-11; lk 22:14 - 23:56 (year c) the liturgy of holy week begins with the blessing of palms and the commemorati...
Bishop David McGough
An academic philosopher takes on the universe
the territories of human reason by alister e mcgrath oup, 304pp, £25/$35 alister mcgrath is someone who has frequently taken on the new athe...
Michael Duggan
When Elgar turned to the Druids
the conductor martyn brabbins and hyperion have given us the second complete recording of elgar’s 1898 cantata caractacus. it’s been more th...
Deal Hudson
Diary: After the 'whisky priest', here's the G&T priest
they say he is responsible for a surge in church attendance and sales of marks & spencer canned g&t (up by 24 per cent since he pull...
Cristina Odone
The Pope's latest picks face a near-impossible task
pope francis has made several appointments over the past few weeks, some of them of a very high profile. one is the nomination for santiago ...
Christopher R. Altieri
The week ahead: Confessions, rosaries and Jeremy Irons
apart from the obvious – holy thursday, good friday and easter liturgies, and good friday fasting and abstinence – there are many ways to ma...
Staff writers
Cardinal Sarah's fearless cri de coeur
cardinal robert sarah is not the most influential figure within the roman curia. although he is prefect of the congregation for divine worsh...
The Catholic Herald
Benedict's letter: what people are saying
benedict xvi’s newly-published letter , which links the abuse crisis to the social upheavals of the 1960s and the church’s retreat from its ...
Staff Reporter
Why Benedict's intervention is so important
what is at the root of the crisis which strikes so powerfully at the credibility of the faith? we are all waiting for an answer to this ques...
C C Pecknold
Thomas Merton's illicit affair and the weakness of 60s Zen Catholicism
a recent book about thomas merton highlights his illicit six-month affair with a young woman. garry wills calls the tryst between the fifty-...
C C Pecknold
Pope Francis: The Devil targets those who succumb to despair and negativity
sometimes christians seem to prefer complaining and being unhappy in life, but that makes them a perfect target for the devil, pope francis ...
Carol Glatz
Unplanned is this generation's Matrix
this spring marks the 20th anniversary of the matrix . it was 20 years ago that the hacker neo (keanu reeves) picked the red pill over the b...
Sohrab Ahmari
Stuck for Lenten reading? Try this spy book
not long ago i sat up till 3 am reading a book on my computer screen. i had not planned to do this; i thought i had ordered a print copy the...
Francis Phillips
Progressive writers are starting to admit the sexual revolution was a failure
in the guardian, yvonne roberts writes about how grim the sexual revolution was. she was there, and describes the sexual permissiveness not ...
C C Pecknold
Mexican priest: 'From Spain we received … the true faith'
fr hugo valdemar, the canon penitentiary of the archdiocese of mexico, said monday that through spanish missionaries we have received from s...
Catholic News Agency
Where Catholics cheer Elizabeth I
april 6 is the first day of the 56th season of the southern california renaissance pleasure faire. running until may 19 at the santa fe dam ...
Charles Coulombe
My 'Scotland's Shame' speech provoked debate, but what changed?
twenty years ago, in august 1999, i made a speech at the edinburgh international festival called “scotland’s shame” arguing that anti-cathol...
Sir James MacMillan
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