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Christmas Eve marks 200th anniversary of beloved carol 'Silent Night'
exactly 200 years ago this christmas eve -- december 24, 1818 -- in a little church in what is now austria, the world heard for the first ti...
Richard Szczepanowski
Morning Catholic must-reads: 19/12/18
cardinal luis antonio tagle has implicitly criticised philippines president rodrigo duterte at the start of a christmas novena. the moscow p...
Luke Coppen
The joy of dining alone
"dining,” someone once said to me, when the subject of eating alone in restaurants came up, “is something you have to do with another person...
Robert Wargas
Is true independence on the way for Ukraine's Orthodox Christians?
last october, orthodox patriarch bartholomew of constantinople announced the creation of a new autocephalous (self-governing) national churc...
Fr Mark Drew
The myths that sustained the work of Tolkien and Lewis
inklings of truth: essays to mark the anniversaries of cs lewis and jrr tolkien, introduced and edited by paul shrimpton, has now been publi...
Francis Phillips
Morning Catholic must-reads: 10/12/18
advent requires a requires a “journey of conversion” , pope francis said at yesterday’s angelus ( full text ). discrimination against christ...
Luke Coppen
Why did Gabriel honour Mary? St Thomas Aquinas explains
it's always been fashionable to dislike st thomas aquinas, but never possible to get away from him. in their oedipal rage, young philosopher...
Michael Warren Davis
Pope approves new legislation governing Vatican City
pope francis has published new laws governing the administration of vatican city state, including the formation of a new oversight body for ...
Hannah Brockhaus/CNA
The most startling gesture on an opera stage in years
benjamin britten’s war requiem was composed for the opening of the new coventry cathedral in 1963, as a choral work to be performed in conce...
Michael White
Many comedians have a Catholic background - and no wonder
back when the united states was primarily dominated – both in numbers and in culture – by the wasps, a strange paradox emerged which has rem...
Charles Coulombe
Cardinal Dulles was a quintessentially American thinker
a quarter of a century of friendship with cardinal avery dulles, sj, who died 10 years ago this month, left me with many happy memories. two...
George Weigel
Newman's greatest achievement: putting the personal over the abstract
what were shakespeare’s greatest play and leonardo’s greatest painting? the very questioning is contentious and sparks verbal wars, most vio...
Fr George Rutler
The 'gay network' claims which reach far beyond Connecticut
the day after the raid on sante fe, the rector of holy apostles college and seminary in the archdiocese of hartford came forward to discuss ...
Michael Warren Davis
Casting off 'rules and rigidity' won't save the Irish Church
5 years to save the irish church talks from the national columba book conference, columba books, 94pp, £7.99/$10 let’s cut to the chase. wha...
Michael Duggan
How English choirs recovered from the Reformation - eventually
i saw eternity the other night by timothy day, allen lane, 416pp, £25/$30 in a few weeks’ time, on christmas eve, the famous festival of nin...
Michael White
Henry VI: The well-meaning ruler whose world fell to pieces
henry vi and margaret of anjou by amy license, pen and sword books, 256pp, £19.99/$35 during my days as an undergraduate, a professor of his...
James Baresel
Omnium Gatherum
this week we celebrate our blessed mother’s immaculate conception and the feast of st lucy, virgin and martyr. lucy, from the latin word lux...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
We like the idea of salvation, until it requires serious engagement
on the eve of advent sunday i attended handel’s messiah performed by the brilliant schola cantorum of london’s cardinal vaughan memorial sch...
Fr Dominic Allain
Should priests accused of abuse be denied public funerals?
in wild swans , the family memoir by jung chang, she discusses what happened when her father died. he had been an important member of the ch...
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Forget Christmas carols. Advent is the perfect time to rediscover traditional chant
people love christmas carols. but, whether we hear carols in the children’s nativity play, played in the shops, on the radio or in the paris...
Matthew Ward
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