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Dickens has been proved wrong about the festive season
if charles dickens had combined his own capacity for overwrought emotional fantasy with h.g. wells’s talent for speculative fiction, a...
Nick Thomas
The Catholic soul of Middle Earth
jrr tolkien has had some unexpected admirers – joni mitchell, iris murdoch, terry pratchett and wh auden – and to their number is now added ...
Gertrude Clarke
Abortion politics in the US
on 1 december 2021, the united states supreme court heard oral argument in the case of dobbs v jackson women’s health organization, the most...
Ken Craycraft
Diary: William Cash looks to the future of Catholic Journlism
back in september we decided to put worth school in sussex on the cover of our education supplement. a first. not long after, i was invited ...
William Cash
Cancelling Christmas would patronise minorities, not empower them
pope francis was spot-on when he pointed out last week that there was more than a whiff of totalitarianism about the european commission’s b...
Prof Andrew Tettenborn
Pakistani lynch mob murders Christian boss for throwing stickers with Islamic slogans into litter bin
a lynch mob has battered a christian man to death in pakistan then burned his body while taking selfies of themselves on their mobile phones...
Simon Caldwell
Fra' Matthew Festing, British-born Grand Master of the Sovereign Order of Malta, laid to rest after Requiem in Valletta
fra’ matthew festing, the 79th grand master of the sovereign order of malta, has been laid to rest following a funeral in valletta. a mighty...
Staff Reporter
Dobbs v. Jackson: What did Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett say?
as the wait begins for a decision in the dobbs v. jackson women’s health organization abortion case, close attention will be pai...
Jonah McKeown
Diary: Memories of Christmas down the years and across the seas
it was when i first saw uncle john harman’s black trousers protruding under father christmas’s scarlet robe that my world changed. up till t...
Antonia Fraser
The joy of unexpected things
in a pivotal scene in evelyn waugh’s novel brideshead revisited , the agnostic narrator and main character charles ryder interrogates ...
Ken Craycraft
The father we need
even before the birth of jesus, saint joseph was a model for a christian married man. when he discovered that mary, his bride-to-be, was pre...
Piers Paul Read
Stop the horror of persecution
when a young christian girl from pakistan called farah shaheen was abducted from her home, not in their worst nightmares could her family im...
John Pontifex
Christmas presence
confiteor: i rather enjoyed christmas 2020. having agreed with my parents that, in the context of a global pandemic, driving to wales and ba...
Serenhedd James
The ordeal of Cardinal Pell
within a few minutes of meeting cardinal pell at the travellers club in pall mall, he makes a revealing comment about the proposed title of ...
William Cash
An ode to the Isle of Wight's intriguing Catholic Churches
the second catholic relief act of 1791 marked the start of a century-plus of the building of a series of interesting catholic chu...
Michael Hodges
The first Nowell
last year, my husband and i decided it would be best to stay in london and celebrate christmas at home. it was our daughter lily’s first chr...
lara prendergast
Campaign begins to recognise Brother Michael Strode, monk who founded the HCPT, as a 'modern-day saint'
a campaign is to be launched to canonise a monk who dedicated his life to taking disabled people to lourdes. a mass celebrated at our lady o...
Simon Caldwell
EU ruling over abortion harms us all
the birth of the christ child is an occasion to reflect on other babies and on life in the womb that precedes birth. the most dispiriting de...
The Catholic Herald
Tessa's Feasts: Our festive goose is well and truly cooked
i have chosen st martin of tours this month. as the patron saint of geese, he’s an obvious choice for december. i’m giving you an easy,...
Tessa Balfour
Open your homes to refugees fleeing the Taliban, bishop urges the faithful
catholics in england and wales are to be asked to find homes for thousands of afghanistan refugees fleeing the taliban. parishes will be req...
Simon Caldwell
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