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Word this week
the 23rd sunday of the year is 35:4-7; jas 2:1-5; mk 7:31-37 (year b) “say to all faint hearts, ‘courage, do not be afraid. look, your god i...
Bishop David McGough
Prize crossword 0558
cryptic across 5 it’s outlandish the messiah seeing members of a mecca family (10) 7 reuben, on israel, included benjamin originally (3-3) 8...
Alun Evans
The crimes Ireland hasn’t faced
during pope francis’s visit to ireland last weekend, comparisons were repeatedly drawn between the huge numbers who attended events at john ...
Mary Kenny
Music: Simon Rattle delivers a Ravel suite to die for
i’ve long thought that, should there be a full-sized symphony orchestra to hand, i’d happily die to the closing section of ravel’s mother go...
Michael White
Comic books: The monastic spirit of a fabled island
in the past few hundred years, countless medieval legends and myths have been shoved off to the side, “disproven” by modern historians and s...
Philip Kosloski
Retrieving the glory of the Middle Ages
royal books and holy bones by eamon duffy, bloomsbury, £25 there are historians – and then there is eamon duffy. this book resoundingly demo...
Dominic Selwood
Word this week
the 22nd sunday of the year deut 4:1-2 & 6-8; jas 1:17-18, 21-22 & 27; mk 7:1-8 (year b) "lord, who shall dwell on your holy mountai...
Bishop David McGough
Prize crossword 0557
cryptic across 6 talk about a lengthy narrative (4) 7 greeks after menelaus’ loss, left out body to rest (8) 8 nt letter addressed here is, ...
Alun Evans
Music: Is Bach too boring for a biopic?
turning the lives of great composers into theatre is a dodgy task – remembering those 1950s films where grieg or schubert strike artistic po...
Michael White
Omnium Gatherum
i celebrate as my onomastico , or “name day”, the feast of the beheading of john the baptist, august 29. “he must increase,” said the baptis...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Prize crossword 0556
cryptic across 5 saul’s daughter finds setter near pub, reflecting (5) 6 river enterprise venture’s taken off (5) 8 one in two with uncommon...
Alun Evans
'This is for all the kids!': innocent priest attacked in sacristy
Fr Basil Hutsko, who is not suspected of abuse, was knocked unconscious by an unknown attacker
Catholic News Service
Pope Francis's letter on abuse was not enough. We need action
The Pope must come up with a concrete plan to address the crisis
Christopher R. Altieri
Turkey's Christians are facing increasing persecution. We cannot forget them
The case of Pastor Brunson shows the challenges that Christians face under Erdogan
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Was the US right to drop the atomic bombs? The answer is more difficult than you think
Ethical issues around the bombings have never been resolved
Francis Phillips
How the Church's 'harsh beauty' shaped two rock stars
No matter how hard they try, Sting and 'the Boss' can't seem to leave the faith behind
Michael Duggan
France: The clerical migration crisis
african dioceses are increasingly reluctant to send priests to europe when fr joseph longo arrived in france from the democratic republic of...
Jonathan Luxmoore
Diary: by Andrew M Brown
"soft refreshing rain” – those words popped into my head when the first thunderstorms of this summer broke. as in the hymn: we plough the fi...
Andrew M Brown
Just the thought made me sweat
in hindsight it was inevitable. but at the time i couldn’t think of anything more calamitous than becoming catholic. i was studying at an an...
Tyler Blankski
Rock stars who can’t leave the faith behind
"pope francis is a true rock star.” who says? an actual rock star. sting, formerly of the police, attended a general audience recently and w...
Michael Duggan
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