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Solzhenitsyn saw how suffering could be redemptive
last december saw a significant centenary: 100 years since the birth of alexander solzhenitsyn, the russian writer and winner of the nobel p...
Francis Phillips
Like the Magi, follow Christ's light, Pope Francis says
to be clothed in the divine light of christ, follow the example of the three magi, who put aside worldly power and success and rose to follo...
Hannah Brockhaus/CNA
Morning Catholic must-reads: 07/01/19
“we must not let our fears close our heart," pope francis said at yesterday's angelus ( full text , full video ). to find jesus, we must fol...
Luke Coppen
Why the Soviet Union failed to eradicate religion
there is a very affecting scene at the end of turgenev’s mid-nineteenth century novel, fathers and sons, when bazarov, the resolute young at...
Francis Phillips
Remembering our many Epiphany traditions
one of the sad byproducts of the endless “holiday season” that stretches from halloween on (or, in recent years, even earlier – creating a w...
Charles Coulombe
The Word this Week
the epiphany of the lord is 60:1-6; eph 3:2-3 & 5-6; mt 2:1-12 (year c) the celebration of the epiphany is, in many ways, a joyful medit...
Bishop David McGough
Experimental novelist Murakami is sounding like a broken record
killing commendatore by haruki murakami, harvill secker, 702pp, £20/$30 isolation is central to the work of japanese novelist haruki murakam...
Matt Thorne
Do we need another Churchill biography?
churchill: walking with destiny by andrew roberts allen lane, 1,152pp, £35/$40 if some kind soul gave you a handful of notes to spend, ...
David Oldroyd-Bolt
2019 is the year of Leonardo da Vinci
the single currency devised by the european union, the euro, is 20 years old this month. my personal disappointment with this financial inno...
Mary Kenny
Panama is sparing no expense on this month's World Youth Day
what kind of a panama will pope francis encounter when he visits the country for world youth day later this month? the country is as catholi...
Miguel Cullen
Morning Catholic must-reads: 03/01/19
patriarch kirill has told patriarch bartholomew that if he recognises an independent ukrainian church he will “stop being the primate of the...
Luke Coppen
Nun and art critic Sister Wendy Beckett dies aged 88
She achieved international fame presenting TV documentaries on art history
Staff Reporter
Pope's Urbi et Orbi address: peace and consolation from the birth of the Saviour
on christmas, pope francis prayed for peace and renewed brotherhood in syria, yemen, venezuela, nicaragua, and other parts of the world expe...
Courtney Grogan/CNA
What is Pope Francis doing in 2019?
The Pope has a busy schedule, but February's meeting on abuse could be a defining moment
Cindy Wooden
Omnium Gatherum
the image’s deceptive simplicity is of an order accomplished only by a master. brown ink pen strokes. brown wash. traces of black lead. the ...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
2018 was a good year to be a book reviewer. Here's why
not all book reviewers are as despondent and sore oppressed as the one depicted by orwell in a bleak essay. some of us, after years in the g...
Allan Massie
Musical magic in Ludlow
anybody interested in english song will know the shropshire town of ludlow as the place where “lads in their hundreds ... come in for the fa...
Michael White
The explosive and enigmatic stained glass of Harry Clarke
where the imagery of christmas is concerned, i am an old fogey. i like to be surrounded by cards bearing paintings of the holy family by old...
Michael Duggan
How to feast like a medieval Catholic
"good day, sir christmas, our king!” proclaims an english carol of the 15th century, welcoming the beginning of the christmas season, and te...
Eleanor Parker
‘Beauty can lead to faith’ – an interview with the director of the Vatican Museums
barbara jatta, the first woman to direct the vatican museums in their 512-year history, says that she grew up amid the smells of solvent. he...
Desmond O'Grady
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