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How not to get rich
losing your religion can be good for your wealth, claims a new study carried out by the universities of bristol and tennessee. it argues tha...
Mary Kenny
Film: A thoughtful take on the miracle industry
how can the church deal with claims of apparitions in an increasingly secular, disbelieving world? that is one of the questions at the heart...
Will Gore
A walk through the ‘side passages’ of religion
city of the good by michael bell, princeton, 360pp, £25 i like it when a book opens with an epiphany. michael bell, a sociology professor at...
Michael Duggan
Omnium Gatherum
shall we look at the collect for this sunday’s holy mass in the ordinary form? protector in te sperantium, deus, sine quo nihil est validum,...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Prize crossword 0552
cryptic across 5 graphic details portrayed on local maps (3,6) 8 in jordan on every level, primarily, there’s a prophet (4) 9 old actor: in ...
Alun Evans
Catholic magazine compares Italy's Matteo Salvini to Satan
Salvini has said the Famiglia Cristiana cover is in bad taste and that many Catholics support him
Staff Reporter
How long until students denounce Shakespeare as a white imperialist?
White male writers are being attacked for who they are rather than what they write
Francis Phillips
Pope accepts resignation of bishop accused of sexual and financial misconduct
Bishop Juan José Pineda is an auxiliary to Cardinal Maradiaga, one of the Pope's closest confidantes
Staff Reporter
Head of Vatican commission says contraception is 'intrinsically wrong'
There had been speculation that Mgr Gilfredo Marengo's commission would challenge Church teaching
Dan Hitchens
The Vatican: When churches convert
the vatican is drawing up guidelines for the sale of deconsecrated buildings does not god dwell here anymore? that is the question a confere...
Christopher R. Altieri
A Picnic that’s gone stale
joan lindsay’s 1967 mystery novel picnic at hanging rock , adapted for film by peter weir in 1975, is now a mini-series playing on amazon vi...
Matthew Schmitz
Music: A murder-mystery opera on ice skates
there are, i suppose, more spiritual ways to spend a sunday morning than strolling through the urban civility of cheltenham’s pittville park...
Michael White
British exceptionalism from Virgil to Blair
the story of britain by roy strong, weidenfeld, 608pp, £30 sir roy strong is known for his reigns at the victoria and albert museum and the ...
Harry Mount
The worst authors who have ever lived
dictator literature by daniel kalder, oneworld, 400pp, £16.99 daniel kalder is a very funny writer who specialises in russian history and li...
Ed West
A quiet moment with Mary as Paris erupts
as france headed towards a resounding victory in the world cup final on sunday night i was in the chapel of the miraculous medal at the rue ...
Fr Dominic Allain
Charles Coulombe: A road trip to restore the soul
if you are an american who is unhappy with way the united states has gone the past five decades (and what orthodox catholic living in any we...
Charles Coulombe
Papal confidantes denounce 'distorted American dream' of Prosperity Gospel
It is a 'theological justification for economic neo-liberalism', Jesuit journal Civiltà Cattolica said
Cindy Wooden
Don't think you have what it takes to be a saint? Think again
A book provides inspiration for those who think that saintliness is not for them
Francis Phillips
Dynastic dramas are so appealing because they're about family values
As family coherence becomes a memory, we've developed a taste for watching tight-knit families on our screens
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
The Russian Orthodox believers who treat the Tsar like a God
The 'god-tsarists' form the most vocal and best organised minority in the Russian Orthodox Church
Konstantin von Eggert
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