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Books, film, music, ideas. Catholic life in the wider conversation.
What can Catholics learn from Protestants? Quite a lot, according to one new book
Peter Kreeft writes that Catholics can discover a 'personal relationship with Jesus Christ' from engaging in dialogue with Protestants
Francis Phillips
Ordinariate establishes first ever parish in Torbay
The parish has been established at a former Methodist chapel that was purchased in 2015
Staff Reporter
What's inside this week's magazine?
Take a look inside this week's Catholic Herald
Staff Reporter
The best of the blogosphere
✣ highlights from the week online francis’s bishops: an uneasy relationship the pope is hoping to reshape the church with the support of bis...
Staff writers
In brief
archbishop criticises trump’s budget plan archbishop joseph kurtz of louisville, kentucky, has said donald trump’s proposed cuts to aid prog...
Staff Reporter
Mary Kenny: ‘Not in our name’ - a sentiment that saves lives
andy burnham, the new mayor of manchester, who coped so gracefully with the aftermath of the terrible atrocity at the manchester arena, said...
Mary Kenny
Monteverdi’s career of harmony and rivalry
claudio monteverdi, whose 450th anniversary we celebrate this year, was almost as good at grumbling as he was at composing. he had entered t...
Jonathan Wright
Music: Epic Beethoven in a Borders village church
when you live in london, with the convenience of sophisticated halls and world-class concerts on tap, it’s maybe perverse to take successive...
Michael White
Theatre: A dreamworld of Jews, Mormons and angels
angels in america , tony kushner’s award-winning epic at national theatre, describes the impact of aids on the gay community in san francisc...
Robert Tanitch
Briefly noted
world without end by thomas keating ocso (bloomsbury, £10.99) . the author, an american trappist and well-known exponent of contemplative pr...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Omnium Gatherum
dom prosper guéranger, in the liturgical year, looks at the discourse of peter at the pentecost event. the multitudes had gathered for the j...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Word this week
solemnity of pentecost acts 2:1-11; 1 cor 12:3-7; jn 20:19-23 (year a) pentecost comes this year at a time when our nation is still grieving...
Bishop David McGough
Lectio Divina
gift of the holy spirit pentecost sunday: john 20:19-23 19 it was late that sunday evening, and the disciples were gathered together behind ...
Mgr Anthony Abela
Saint of the week: Charles Lwanga (June 3)
a bugandan convert in 1879, the white fathers missionary order arrived in buganda, present-day uganda, and began to preach the gospel. they ...
Staff Reporter
PICTURES: 'Stunning' frescos revealed in Roman catacombs
Some of the frescos are more than 1,600 years old
Catholic News Service
To defeat Islamists, our governments must enter the battle of ideas
It's time they got off the fence
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Trump seems content with traditional US foreign policy. More's the pity
From Riyadh to Rome, Trump's first trip has shown he's no foreign policy maverick
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Don’t use embryos for research, says Pope
pope francis has urged scientists not to take part in a “throwaway culture” by destroying human embryos in the search for a cure for hunting...
Staff writers
The debate that just won’t die
in his memoir the church and i , the catholic apologist frank sheed recalled his part in an unusual conversion story. a murderer on death ro...
Dan Hitchens
From altar server to Hollywood actor
michael fassbender is remembering his days as an altar boy at prince of peace church in fossa, near killarney. “i was head altar boy, actual...
Gabrielle Donnelly
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