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Germany: A shade of green
merkel’s hand is weakened as her csu ally loses power in its catholic heartland angela merkel’s faltering government has been dealt another ...
Jon Anderson
Word this week
the 30th sunday of the year jer 31:7-9; heb 5:1-6; mk 10:46-52 (year b) the prophet jeremiah was an unwelcome voice to his contemporaries in...
Bishop David McGough
The epiphanies of a Norwegian Trappist
the shattering of loneliness: on christian remembrance by erik varden ocso, bloomsbury, 192pp £10.99 the cistercian community of mount st be...
Hugh Somerville-Knapman OSB
Islam is everywhere in today’s art world
one of the most significant cultural events of the year took place at the british museum last week: the glitzy new albukhary foundation gall...
Lucien de Guise
Prize crossword 0565
cryptic across 5 nice almuce worn to a particular church council (10) 7 diminutive girl’s drone about to land in central american (6) 8 cler...
Alun Evans
Oscott seminary rejects 'gay subculture' claims
A former formation tutor alleged that seminary authorities were failing to confront a problem
Staff Reporter
Supreme Court may hear another wedding cake case
The couple declined to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding, citing their religious views
Catholic News Agency
Is dying a form of art?
A new book urges us to rediscover the art of dying well
Francis Phillips
Chapter & verse: The kitchen-table genius of a Catholic poet
allan massie reflects on the life and work of the orkney poet george mackay brown, who saw holiness in the natural world george mackay brown...
Allan Massie
Mankind’s troubling new frontiers
most people, i believe, want to be kind, want to be tolerant, and want, indeed, to follow the christian precept of “love thy neighbour”. one...
Mary Kenny
Music: Spending too long in the trenches
in the coming weeks there will be no escape from world war i commemorations. in the concert hall, onstage and in exhibition spaces we’ll be ...
Michael White
Film: An elusive figure in the line of fire
under the wire is a documentary about the war correspondent marie colvin. it is also, just as much, a film about her photographer colleague ...
KV Turley
Word this week
the 29th sunday of the year is 53:10-11; heb 4:14-16; mk 10:35-45 (year b) throughout the world this sunday is kept as world mission day. we...
Bishop David McGough
Omnium Gatherum
the collect, ancient in origin, for this 29th ordinary sunday in the novus ordo , is prayed in the extraordinary form on sunday after ascens...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Prize crossword 0564
cryptic across 1 california’s (whichever way you look), north america’s ‘promised land’ (6) 4 dreadfully-sounding irish county (6) 8 easterl...
Alun Evans
Suicide and the soul
more than 50 years ago, the american psychologist james hillman wrote a book entitled suicide and the soul . it was intended for therapists ...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Oscar Romero canonisation: right saint, wrong place
Romero should have been canonised in San Salvador
Fr Raymond de Souza
The Orthodox stand-off over Ukraine is about more than just religion
Russians will consider the decision to recognise an independent Ukrainian Church as an attack on their very identity
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Give young people authentic message and messengers, archbishop says
Archbishop Leo Cushley said bishops must bring young people to 'the whole of the apostolic faith'
Catholic News Agency
How the Old Mass came to Balham
St Bede’s has become one of London’s great liturgical churches. The departing parish priest explains how it all began
Stuart Reid
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