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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
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
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