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‘Ireland is led by fools': an interview with John Waters
Catholic writer John Waters believes his country is blighted by mediocrity – but ‘a better day will dawn’
Michael Duggan
Papal telescopes: Heavens above
the vatican observatory is being opened up to the public when people ask why the vatican has an observatory, one jesuit priest says it’s bec...
Carol Glatz
Fr Raymond J de Souza: Right saint, wrong place
i will be in rome for the canonisation of blessed oscar romero this sunday, but i wish i weren’t – in rome, that is. i would have preferred ...
Fr Raymond de Souza
When 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 st bede’s church, clap...
Stuart Reid
Two witty guides to canals and crocodiles
one of the most uplifting tv series is back on the box for an autumn season: timothy west and prunella scales’s great canal journeys (channe...
Mary Kenny
‘Ireland is led by fools'
john waters’s career in irish journalism lasted for more than 30 highly successful years before he quit what he thinks has become an “ideolo...
Michael Duggan
Music: A smug and desperate attempt to shock
salome has no more than a bit part in the bible, and doesn’t even merit a name-check in the two accounts of her demanding the head of john t...
Michael White
Film: A test approaches for the Polish Church
the polish film kler (“clergy”) was controversial even before its release. directed by wojciech smarzowski and featuring household names suc...
Ben Sixsmith
The conflict that changed an archbishop’s life
cardinal gerhard müller on how oscar romero became a shepherd, then a martyr revolutionary saint: the theological legacy of oscar romero by ...
Cardinal Gerhard Muller
Word this week
the 28th sunday of the year wis 7:7-11; heb 4:12-13; mk 10:17-30 (year b) “i prayed, and understanding was given me; i entreated, and the sp...
Bishop David McGough
The search for an ‘indubitable’
in a book, 12 rules for life – an antidote to chaos , that is justifiably making waves in many circles today, jordan peterson shares his jou...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Pope Francis: Abortion is like hiring a hitman
'Is it right to take a human life to solve a problem? It's like hiring a hitman,' the Pope said
Courtney Grogan/CNA
Scicluna: Don't look to youth synod for answers on abuse crisis
Catholics should wait for the February 2019 meeting of bishops, he said
Hannah Brockhaus/CNA
What Freud didn't understand about sexuality
C G Jung said Freud refused to acknowledge the spiritual and mystical side of human experience
Francis Phillips
Archbishop Chaput tells synod: ‘LGBTQ’ should not be used in Church documents
The archbishop argued that the Church does not 'categorise people' by their 'sexual appetites'
Staff Reporter
Key figures in an era of ‘witch hysteria’
matthew hopkins hopkins became notorious in the 17th century as england’s most prolific witch-hunter. he grew up in suffolk, where his fathe...
Dominic Selwood
My sister’s tips on tipping
is restaurant tipping a moral issue? for my late sister, ursula, it was. she was, i thought, a wild over-tipper, always adding 20 per cent t...
Mary Kenny
A secular saint who turned anguish into art
bonnie lander johnson on the strange 21st-century cult of fridolatry this summer we took our children to the frida kahlo exhibition at the v...
Bonnie Lander Johnson
Music: The fine-tuned purr of flawless a cappella
time flies. it seems like last week, but it’s actually been a year since simon rattle’s triumphant homecoming to take charge of the london s...
Michael White
Film: Did John Paul’s words help end the Troubles?
the contention of the documentary john paul ii in ireland: a plea for peace , written and directed by emmy award winner david naglieri, is t...
KV Turley
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