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Beyond the Fatima conspiracy theories
fatima mysteries by grzegorz gorny and janusz rosikon, ignatius, £27 fatima mysteries: mary’s message to the modern age is a large and heavy...
Donal Anthony Foley
Omnium Gatherum
my favourite images of the ascension of the lord, celebrated on thursday for at least 16 centuries – thursday, not sunday – are those charmi...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Word this week
sixth sunday of easter acts 8:5-8; 1 pet 3:15-18; jn 14:15-21 (year a) ‘philip went to a samaritan town and proclaimed the christ to them. t...
Bishop David McGough
Prize crossword 0491
cryptic across 5 realities of the twelve tribes? (9) 8 gravity, in the main, falls over a long time (4) 9 revelationary location? take a cha...
Alun Evans
From storybooks to spirituality
my first love was literature – novels and poetry. as a child, i loved storybooks, mysteries and adventures. in grade school, i was made to m...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Who is the real Vladimir Putin? A new book offers interesting answers
Diplomacy can disguise the fact that human beings are at the centre of international politics, however powerful their public status
Francis Phillips
Fr John Bollan: How my students caused a power cut in Rome
i’m just back from a few days in rome with 39 pupils from st columba’s high school in gourock, where i’m currently chaplain. anyone who’s be...
Mark Greaves
Fatima at 100: Signs from heaven
sunday, may 13, 1917 would prove to be an auspicious day, both for the catholic church and for the whole tumultuous course of the 20th centu...
Stephen Bullivant
Colin Brazier: How my wife became an eco-warrior
back in brussels. not to present brexit news, but to speak to meps at the european parliament. they want to hear about sky tv’s campaign aga...
Colin Brazier
Comments of the week
pius xii’s canonisation isn’t guaranteed sir – regarding the possible canonisation of pope pius xii, sir anthony holland (letter, may 5) say...
The Catholic Herald
A theology lesson for Renaissance princes
occasionally artists are also theologians, giving visual form to ideas about god. such was raphael, called to fresco pope julius ii’s apartm...
Mgr Timothy Verdon
Fine art: The beast lurking among Picasso’s beauties
the picasso: minotaurs and matadors exhibition at the gagosian (london w1, until august 25) is a burdensome proposal. to face a picasso is a...
Miguel Cullen
Music: Radical opera at a surreal dinner party
we’ve all known dinner parties that went on too long, but rarely with the consequences of the one in thomas adès’s new opera, the exterminat...
Michael White
Film: Love, lies and trauma in the aftermath of war
it seems only yesterday that we were commemorating the centenary of the outbreak of world war i. three years on, and it is now the terrible ...
Mark Le Fanu
‘Catholic’ must be more than just a brand name
catholic social thought edited by david o’brien and thomas shannon, orbis, £30 there are 687 pages in this collection of church documents, r...
Brandon McGinley
The timeless poetry of a bedridden genius
david jones: engraver, soldier, painter, poet by thomas dilworth, jonathan cape, £25 david jones is the author of two of the greatest modern...
Gerald Russello
Prize crossword 0490
cryptic across 1 soldier to head up to region east of the r jordan (6) 4 amun’s place is almost unbeatable (6) 9 short east india man reache...
Alun Evans
Despair as weakness rather than sin
classically, both in the world and in our churches, we have seen despair as the ultimate unforgivable sin. the simple notion was that neithe...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
The timeless poetry of a bedridden genius
David Jones' In Parenthesis is "one of the greatest aesthetic and existential achievements of 20th century literature" says Thomas Dilworth
Gerald Russello
We're in danger of overlooking the most important part of Fatima
The warnings of Our Lady proved prophetic in 1917. They continue to resonate today
Stephen Bullivant
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