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Meet the author who shows us how to fight Satan
Sonja Corbitt says we need to learn spiritual combat in our struggle against the Devil
Francis Phillips
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Staff Reporter
Church ‘is being persecuted in Ireland’
the church in ireland is undergoing “persecution”, with people directing “anger” at clergy, bishops have said. speaking at a priest’s ordina...
Staff writers
In brief
vietnamese bishops criticise religion law vietnam’s bishops have criticised a new law regulating religion in the country, saying that religi...
Staff writers
To stop terror, imams must preach damnation
at least this time we heard from the imams, who appeared on television to condemn the terrorism. too often they are nationally silent, even ...
Ann Widdecombe
Television: Dystopian drama takes aim at liberals
the handmaid’s tale (channel 4, sundays, 9pm) isn’t an easy fit for the small screen. it’s the story of offred, a woman living in an america...
Tim Stanley
Theatre: Give this bonkers Cold War Woyzeck a miss
georg büchner wrote woyzeck in 1837, the year he died, aged 23. there was no definitive text, just fragments of paper. it wasn’t performed f...
Robert Tanitch
Music: Gilbert & Sullivan are a monumental bore
deathless humour is a rarity. while jane austen, shakespeare and maybe chaucer can still make us laugh across the centuries, lesser masters ...
Michael White
Music: The band that saved Germany from kitsch
can – the singles mute/spoon records, vinyl/cd/download can, typically for a so-called krautrock band, rejected germany’s saccharine post-wa...
Ian Thomson
Cardinal Kasper chases the spectre of Luther
martin luther: an ecumenical perspective by walter kasper, paulist press, £10 this slim volume weighs in at a mere 43 pages, some of which a...
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
The rape victim who forgave her attacker
in 1996, thordis elva, an icelandic teenager, was raped for two hours by tom stranger, her australian boyfriend. some years later they embar...
Dr David Cowan
Briefly noted
the image of god, personhood and the embryo by calum mackellar (scm press, £35) . the author, an expert on medical ethics and visiting profe...
Staff writers
PICTURES: Cardinal and London Mayor host interfaith Ramadan gathering
The Cardinal invited London Mayor Sadiq Khan and Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, along with young people of various faith, to Archbishop's House in Westminster
Staff Reporter
Pope Francis asks cardinals to inform him whenever they leave Rome
Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Dean of the College of Cardinals, reminded the prelates of the “noble tradition” of informing the Secretariat of State whenever they travel outside of Rome
Staff Reporter
How a dying monk inspired Cardinal Sarah to embrace silence
The Cardinal 'recognised an ardent soul, a hidden saint, a great friend of God' in the monk who had lost the ability to speak
Francis Phillips
What’s inside this week’s magazine?
Take a look inside this week's Catholic Herald
Staff Reporter
The hymn buried under centuries of rubbish
the city of oxyrhynchus is in central egypt, south of cairo, west of the nile, and bears its greek name from the time of alexander the great...
Michael Duggan
Film: Is this the weirdest God movie ever made?
the initial wave of faith-based movies – those medium-to-low budget dramas boosted by evangelical word of mouth – diminished quickly in the ...
Mike McCahill
Music: Eschatological opera ends without a bang
describing the end of the world in music is no small deal. wagner took 16 hours spread over four nights when he tried in the ring cycle. jon...
Michael White
Martyrdoms that could rival any horror film
the burning time by virginia rounding, macmillan, £20 as a child, deeply affected by stories of vampires and suchlike, i once tapped the wis...
Simon Caldwell
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