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Quotes of the week
"one of england’s great intellects being declared a saint is beyond a once-in-a-lifetime event" sir edward leigh press release from parliame...
Staff writers
Meanwhile: marathon nun and feathered headdresses
“i’m kind of an extreme person,” sister stephanie baliga says. the franciscan is about to run her tenth marathon. it’s a way to raise money ...
Staff writers
Overlooked: 'Uncrowned king of Poland' to be beatified
what happened? the late polish cardinal stefan wyszyński will be beatified, after pope francis gave official vatican approval to a miracle b...
Staff writers
October 11, 2019
The Catholic Herald
How Ireland became a suburb of Hollywood
richard devane sj by martin walsh messenger publications, 176pp, £23/$24.50 for many irish people nowadays, flicking through the pages of ma...
Michael Duggan
Chirac's funeral showed the media are more judgmental than the Church
there was a time when the catholic church might decline to bestow a full christian burial on individuals whose public lives were judged to b...
Mary Kenny
A 'very dark day' prompts Australia's biggest ever pro-life rally
after a 72-hour debate, delays and the threat of a leadership spill, new south wales became the final state in australia to decriminalise ab...
Natasha Marsh
World news: from Mexico City to Maputo
grand rapids, michigan adoption agency wins ‘discrimination’ battle a catholic adoption agency has won a court battle against the state of m...
Staff writers
Meanwhile: Saturnos and Kanye
what sort of headgear does a priest need? anything but a saturno, according to pope francis. in an exchange with jesuits in madagascar last ...
Staff writers
The big story: Amazon synod prompts debate – and prayer
what happened? catholics have taken part in prayer vigils ahead of the controversial amazon synod, asking for the church to be protected fro...
Staff writers
October 4, 2019
The Catholic Herald
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A 'post-human priesthood'? What a counsel of despair
the theologian josef pieper says that one of the most common errors afflicting christians is to treat god as though he were “a something” ra...
Fr Dominic Allain
Practical concern for the poor is at the heart of the Mosaic Law
the 26th sunday of the year amos 6:1 & 4-7; 1 tim 6:11-16; lk 16:19-31 (year c) throughout the gospels, and especially in luke’s gospel,...
Bishop David McGough
The Galileo legend is of a spiteful, outdated Church. The reality is more complex
on trial for reason by maurice a finocchiaro oup, 289pp, £25/$32.95 june 22, 1633, was not the happiest of days for galileo galilei, though ...
Jonathan Wright
Inside the Vatican: a fascinating programme for anyone interested in cleaning
the bbc’s inside the vatican relies, we are told in its somewhat breathless publicity, on unprecedented access to the inner workings of the ...
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
The symphony isn't dead - it's entering a new golden age
next time you are listening to beethoven’s fifth symphony or mahler’s second, imagine what it would have been like to be there for the first...
The Catholic Herald
Quotes of the week
"the proverbial ill wind that blows no one any good" nigerian bishops on criticism of pope francis ‘from some higher levels of the church’ c...
Staff writers
Overlooked: Vatican puts finishing touches to new constitution
what happened? the vatican has moved a step closer towards having a new constitution. pope francis’s council of cardinal advisers has b...
Staff writers
Could the Vatican-China deal undermine the Church's credibility?
last sunday marked the first anniversary of the “provisional agreement” between china and the holy see. it was the result of decades of dipl...
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