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The seminary that saved British Catholicism
as one drives through northern france, it is easy to ignore the signs to douai. it has no cathedral to match amiens, no world-famous gastron...
Fr Nicholas Schofield
Meanwhile: 100-year-old priest concelebrates with his four sons
fr probo vaccarini celebrated his 100th birthday earlier this month – and marked the occasion by concelebrating mass with his four sons, who...
Staff writers
The week ahead: Recusancy, Putin and cricket
westminster cathedral is running a coach trip to ingatestone hall near brentwood, essex, next thursday. the historic tudor house was home to...
Staff writers
Ecumenical relations
the question of intercommunion within our churches today is a big one, an important one and a painful one. i’m old enough to remember anothe...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Heretic of the week: Arthur Conan Doyle
sir arthur conan doyle (1859-1930) was a physician and writer, renowned for creating the immortal detective sherlock holmes. less well known...
Charles Coulombe
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week iv sunday, june 23 : most holy body and blood of the lord gn 14:18-20; ps 110; 1 cor 11:23-26; lk 9:11...
The Catholic Herald
Contraception hasn't reduced demand for abortion
it was announced last week that terminations of pregnancy in the united kingdom had reached the highest number ever. more than 205,000 abort...
Mary Kenny
Dear Fr Rutler: I can't stand my priest. Should I go parish-shopping?
dear father rutler, my wife is from poland, and with all the nuttiness in america today, i’m more and more inclined to accede to her request...
Fr George Rutler
How much free will do we really have?
i like to think of myself as a reasonably intelligent person. after all, i have had a long life, following a jesuit education, being married...
Quentin de la Bedoyere
World news: from Ecuador to Eritrea
paris first mass in notre-dame since fire notre-dame cathedral has seen its first mass since the fire which devastated the roof. archbishop ...
Staff writers
A political conversion remarkably free from bitterness
i have just read journalist melanie phillips’ autobiography, guardian angel: my journey from leftism to sanity , published by bombardier boo...
Francis Phillips
In this new battle for parents' rights, the Catholic position is clear
for several months, parents in birmingham have been gathering on the street. they are campaigning against what they see as inapp...
David Paton
Rachel Held Evans, 1981-2019
no community should botch its deaths. mircea eliade wrote those words and they’re a warning: if we do not properly celebrate the life of som...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Heretic of the week: Herbert W Armstrong
herbert w armstrong (1892-1986) was an american prophet, in the mould of joseph smith and mary baker eddy – though his doctrines were far re...
Charles Coulombe
The profound kindness of John Buchan
beyond the thirty-nine steps by ursula buchan, bloomsbury, 492pp, £25/$28 john buchan (1875-1940) has proved more enduring than most of his ...
David Platzer
Faith is the golden thread running through Stockhausen's work
musical – artistic – modernism is a godless pursuit. or so the maxim runs – especially among those discomfited by dissonance, while modern c...
Peter Quantrill
Longing for lost worlds won't convert America
when young radicals gathered in the streets of paris in may 1968, régis debray was nowhere to be seen. as his friends playacted at revolutio...
Matthew Schmitz
Franco's tomb is still a headache for the Church
spain’s catholic church has promised to respect a supreme court judgment barring the exhumation of general francisco franco from his mausole...
Jonathan Luxmoore
The week in quotations
"if you want to make god laugh, tell him your plans" bishop john wilson says he’s surprised to be the next archbishop of southwark statement...
Staff writers
Meanwhile: The Catholic faith of the queen of Creole cooking
tributes have poured in for leah chase, a new orleans chef who played a leading role in the civil rights movement, and who died last week. a...
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