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How a lone missionary found a way to defeat poverty
"poverty is not inevitable!" so declared the holy father on his visit to madagascar, the poor island-nation of some 26 million people in the...
Fr Raymond de Souza
Africa is a rising force, but Rome has yet to catch up
as pope francis celebrated mass on sunday he looked out on a congregation of up to a million people. many of them had slept overnight on the...
The Catholic Herald
What it means to be God's adopted children
the collect for the 23rd ordinary sunday was not in any pre-conciliar edition of the roman missal, but it was in the 8th-century gelasian sa...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
The Church used to have a powerful economic voice. What went wrong?
one hundred years ago, the national catholic war council, the predecessor of today’s us conference of catholic bishops, issued a “program fo...
Matthew Schmitz
Don't be afraid of Thomism
modern theologians, especially in the post-war period, often spoke as though the catholic church would have to change in order to maintain r...
C C Pecknold
Seven bishops reveal how they increased vocations
ask bishops how their dioceses are doing for vocations to the priesthood and a response you’ll often receive is: “not too bad, but we’d like...
Jim Graves
What this stone church reveals about early English Christianity
in august archaeologists excavating on the south side of st mary and st ethelburga’s church in lyminge, kent, uncovered the stone apse (pict...
The Catholic Herald
The week ahead: Pope in Mauritius, Glastonbury pilgrims, St Theresa relics
pope francis will meet government leaders and the bishops of madagascar tomorrow before visiting the tomb of blessed victoire rasoamanarivo....
Staff writers
There's no excuse for letting schoolchildren go hungry
in bygone days schoolchildren would be seen at midday with their tin lunch pails or strolling home from neighbourhood schools to eat with th...
The Catholic Herald
Men suffer from abortion too
back in 1975, before fr stephen imbarrato became a catholic priest and pro-life activist, he got his girlfriend pregnant and was, in hi...
James Jeffrey
A lesson in ageing
we live in a culture that idealises youth and marginalises the old. and, as the psychologist james hillman says, the old don’t let go e...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
A fascinating study of Spain that fails to do the Church justice
after the fall by tobias buck weidenfeld and nicolson, 320pp, £20/$24.50 last month, spanish political parties failed, yet again, to come to...
Filipe D'Avillez
The debate: Was Chesterton an anti-Semite?
yes says stephen daisley of all the writers won to rome, gk chesterton is among the most prized. the late convert was the happiest of c...
The Catholic Herald
On child benefit, the US lags behind other nations. Could that change?
one of the most striking failures of right-of-centre policymaking in america is its infinite solicitousness toward corporations but indiffer...
Jordan Bloom
Why a stage invasion didn't faze Pope Francis
it was just short of 20 minutes into the weekly general audience on august 21 when 10-year-old clelia manfellotti of naples mounted the stai...
Christopher R. Altieri
I dreaded our camping holiday. How wrong I was
"we don’t do camping,” said a pompous acquaintance when i explained that our summer holiday this year was going to be a fortnight in a tent....
Andrew M Brown
Finzi: A composer who sensed a deeper purpose beyond suffering
the composer gerald finzi (1901-56) was shy, modest and sensitive. descended on his father’s side from italian jews, the finzis were otherwi...
Peter Davison
Some churchmen are embarrassed by their authority. Not Francis
in 1981, john paul ii released familiaris consortio, a document which stated that unless the divorced and remarried abstain from sex, admitt...
Matthew Schmitz
How John Paul II's great encyclical is being erased from history
at the heart of the controversy over the dismantling of the john paul ii institute in rome is the effective sacking of two leading moral the...
Fr Raymond de Souza
Diary: Newman's failures make him an ideal patron for students
at last, newman house university chaplaincy has gone contactless. we still pass the money bags around at mass, as if following a half-rememb...
Fr Stephen Wang
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