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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
Prize Crossword 0587
cryptic across 1 get old woman drink after all going round an ot peak (6) 4 classes for actors with fringe experiences (6) 8 gold lace many ...
Alun Evans
Auberon Waugh was as brilliant as his father
a scribbler in soho by auberon waugh, with commentary by naim attallah, quartet, 341pp, £20/$29 in a 1973 essay about pg wodehouse, auberon ...
Harry Mount
'Truly this was the Son of God'
it was a little before easter 2008, and i had only just begun to grasp that my life in the united states, where i had spent the previous doz...
Jens F Laurson
The strange birth of the Novus Ordo
after several decades of liturgy wars, few are unaware of the turbulent history of the post-conciliar liturgy since the new order of mass ( ...
Hugh Somerville-Knapman OSB
Viganò vindicated?
according to the organisers, the recent vatican sexual abuse summit was aimed at changing a mindset more than specific procedural reforms. y...
Fr Raymond de Souza
The ten worst countries in which to be a Christian
1. north korea it is impossible to know precisely how many christians live in north korea: they are considered enemies of the state because ...
David Oldroyd-Bolt
When it's forgivable to make a phone call in church
in the yorkshire seaside town of whitby last week, i looked round st mary’s church – a spectacular number in a style osbert lancaster would ...
Harry Mount
Meanwhile: 'Clerical Ronaldo' divides Portuguese parliament
when a team of portuguese priests won an indoor football competition, they could hardly have imagined the divisions their triumph would prov...
Filipe D'Avillez
The Week Ahead: Piano and prayers
the pianist matthew schellhorn and his musical friends will give a recital at st mary moorfields in the city of london today (april 5). the ...
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