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Finding faith amid the Nazi persecution
Etty Hillesum's diaries document her spiritual awakening in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands
Francis Phillips
A visit that confirmed all my prejudices about England’s Protestant revolution
Norfolk is full of suppressed Catholicism
Tim Stanley
The spiritual intensity of a Suffolk weekend
composers by tradition channel their most serious, abstract thinking into symphonies and string quartets. and though benjamin britten was ne...
Michael White
Epicentre of low life and high conversation
soho in the eighties by christopher howse, bloomsbury, 266pp, £20 soho in the 1970s, with its strip joints and steamed-up caffs, was an exci...
Ian Thomson
Henry VIII's master of bureaucracy and propaganda
thomas cromwell: a life by diarmaid macculloch, allen lane, 730pp, £30 this new biography is so prodigiously thorough and clever that it is ...
Jack Scarisbrick
Dreamy, languid and above all beautiful
the pre-raphaelite artist sir edward burne-jones was once asked by a young girl if he believed the story he had painted in the star of bethl...
David V Barrett
A reasonable doubt
friends and colleagues of the distinguished lawyer sir louis blom-cooper will have been puzzled by the opening sentence of his recent obitua...
Richard Ingrams
Diary: by Fra’ Ian Scott
living on the aventine hill, i’m always fascinated by the hundreds of people who come to the piazza dei cavalieri di malta to peer through t...
Fra’ Ian Scott
Prize crossword 0566
cryptic across 3 attraction of one from a 60’s soul band? (10) 7 diverse views of two students in the group (4) 8 african, one believing in ...
Alun Evans
Word this week
the 31st sunday of the year dt 6:2-6; ps 18; heb 7:23-28; mk 12:28b-34 (year b) in the long history of god’s people, the book of deuteronomy...
Bishop David McGough
Faith and levity
shusaku endo, the japanese author of the classic novel silence (upon which martin scorsese based his movie) was a catholic who didn’t always...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Flooding damages St Mark's Basilica in Venice
St Mark's 'aged 20 years in one day,' the basilica's procurator Carlo Alberto Tesserin said
Courtney Grogan/CNA
Despite the Pope's best efforts, the Youth Synod lacked any sense of urgency
The evangelical zeal I've encountered in many young people was missing from the Synod
Fr Raymond de Souza
The Pittsburgh shooting threatens the very foundation of the American Dream
This sort of anti-Semitic violence is poison to the American soul
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Defend Church from those who seek to destroy it, Pope says at synod
Francis tells bishops that 'through us, the great accuser wants to attack' mother Church
Junno Arocho Esteves
We could guess the outcome of this Synod before it started
The Synod Fathers will end up saying whatever the Pope says they said
Christopher R. Altieri
The Catholic Herald is launching in America
We will celebrate the riches of Catholicism and promote accountability in the Church
William Cash
Grace Kelly, Rita Hayworth and two kinds of American Catholicism
Grace Kelly took the route of assimilation. Hayworth remained exotic
Matthew Schmitz
Diary: by William Cash
in a month’s time, i will be boarding a plane to washington for the launch of the new american weekly edition of the catholic herald. this i...
William Cash
The romantic Catholicism of Rita Hayworth
if one were to tell the story of catholic america in the 20th century, one could do worse than contrast the careers of grace kelly and rita ...
Matthew Schmitz
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