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Diminished crowds at World Youth Day
the 15th international world youth day ended on sunday with a mass celebrated by pope francis attended by hundreds of thousands of young peo...
Jonah McKeown/CNA
US pilgrim questions Pope on abuse crisis at World Youth Day
while sharing a private lunch with pilgrims from around the world, pope francis expressed his solidarity with victims of sexual abuse by mem...
Junno Arocho Esteves
Morning Catholic must-reads: 28/01/19
the pope has told young people that they are “the now of god” at the closing mass of world youth day ( full text , full video ). the first n...
Luke Coppen
PICTURES: Pope Francis arrives in Panama for World Youth Day
young men and women in the church can bring the joy of the gospel to the world by showing that god's love extends to all people and excludes...
Junno Arocho Esteves
The Word this Week
third sunday of the year neh 8:2-6 & 8-10; 1 cor 12:12-30; lk 1:1-4 & 4:14-21 (year c) ‘the law of the lord is perfect, it revives t...
Bishop David McGough
Why the Soviet Union couldn’t replace Christianity
a sacred space is never empty by victoria smolkin princeton, 360pp, £35/$40 this book’s title comes from a russian proverb – as such it prov...
Jack Carrigan
Did Shakespeare hide subversive messages in his poems?
shakespeare and the resistance by clare asquith, public affairs books, 256pp, £21.99/$28 not since picking up the friends of eddie coyle, th...
Simon Caldwell
Why Kaiser Wilhelm was never put on trial
the trial of the kaiser by william schabas oup, 412pp, £25/$35 "we’re going to hang jeff davis from a sour-apple tree,” sang yankee soldiers...
Allan Massie
Covent Garden's Queen of Spades: music on top form
never think that opera is so rarified an entertainment that it doesn’t deal with the realities of life. it does. and tchaikovsky’s queen of ...
Michael White
The extraordinary power of ‘transcendental’ films
in 1971, paul schrader, a film student at ucla, published a book called transcendental style in film: ozu, bresson, dreyer . although he was...
Deal Hudson
Anthony Burgess's Earthly Powers: an attempted masterpiece that didn't quite work
anthony burgess’s earthly powers was a great baggy monster of a novel which should perhaps have won the booker prize in 1980, but was beaten...
Allan Massie
What a successful abuse summit would look like
we are almost a decade into the global fight against clerical abuse and we have little to show for it. in 2011, the vatican asked the world’...
The Catholic Herald
No place for 'religious test' in government, Senate says in unanimous vote
the senate yesterday passed a resolution saying it would be "unconstitutional" to consider membership in the knights of columbus a disqualif...
Ed Condon/CNA
Long Island’s little secrets
as you approach the final stretch of long island, new york, the land mass splits into twin forks, as equally beautiful as they are distinct ...
Robert Wargas
The Word this Week
second sunday of the year is 62:1-5; 1 cor 12:4-11; jn 2:1-11 (year c) "about zion i will not be silent … no longer are you to be named ‘for...
Bishop David McGough
The quest for the ‘historical Jesus’ started early in Asia
jesus in asia by rs sugirtharajah harvard university press, 311pp, £21.95/$30 the quest for the historical jesus has been an obsession of we...
Jonathan Wright
Fellini's films mingle piety with paganism
fellini’s eternal rome by alessandro carrera bloomsbury, 186pp, £65/$80 no film conjured so memorably the flashbulb glitz and moral darkness...
Ian Thomson
Is legalising cannabis really such a good idea?
the medical use of cannabis – or marijuana – has been increasingly permitted for the relief of a variety of conditions. it has been prescrib...
Mary Kenny
A tale of reconciliation after the horror of the Holocaust
in our family, not surprisingly given my interest in book reviewing, books are always exchanged at christmas. my daughter happened to give m...
Francis Phillips
Heretic of the week: George Tyrrell
george tyrrell (1861-1909) was the posthumous son of an anglican journalist in dublin. raised in poverty, he converted in 1879 and joined th...
Charles Coulombe
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