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Evangelisation is a tightrope - but Our Lady can help us find our balance
mary, star of evangelization: tilling the soil and sowing the seed by jacob phillips paulist press, 192pp, £24.99/$24.95 pity the catholic e...
Michael Duggan
Senator Booker quizzes judicial nominee on 'sin' and same-sex marriage
sen. cory booker (d-nj) used a confirmation hearing of the senate judiciary committee to question a judicial nominee about her views on the ...
Catholic News Agency
The Pope's Abu Dhabi trip has vindicated Benedict XVI's Regensburg lecture
pope francis made history this week when he became the first catholic pontiff to visit the united arab emirates – which is to say, the arabi...
Sohrab Ahmari
The London households that host virtuoso musicians
the saddest funerals are those that mark the end not only of a life but also of a culture that surrounded it; and an example was the funeral...
Michael White
How to… Mark Candlemas
on february 2, even the most diehard acknowledge that it’s time to put away the crib, take down the mistletoe and leave the season of christ...
The Catholic Herald
Britain's abortion lobbyists are hard at work. But we can resist them
in july 2017, a month after the last general election, some of the top figures in britain’s abortion industry were in ebullient mood. one of...
Simon Caldwell
Obesity: genes or gluttony?
are fat people fat because they’re greedy – gluttony being one of the seven deadly sins – or are they fat because of their genes? and are sl...
Mary Kenny
Letters & emails
the kaiser should have faced justice sir – in his review of the trial of the kaiser (books, january 25), allan massie concludes that “german...
The Catholic Herald
How Westminster Abbey suffered from no longer being Catholic
treasures of westminster abbey by tony trowles scala art, 176pp, £16.99/$25 walking into once catholic churches appropriated by other religi...
James Baresel
Christians will always be inspired – and divided – by music
christian music: a global history by tim dowley spck, 336pp, £14.99/$30 this revised and expanded version of a “global history” first publis...
Michael Duggan
The romantic novelist who lived like a nun
a recent issue of the spectator featured a surprising article. it was self-critical, apolitical and highly readable. commissioning editor ma...
Lucien de Guise
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
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