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Why we should be able to celebrate the Old Rite in the vernacular
the chalcedonian vocabulary which attempts to describe the hypostatic union in christ may not be perfect, but its tautness does help us to r...
Fr Ignatius Harrison
Dear Fr Rutler: what should I do when my family trash-talk the Pope?
dear father rutler, pope francis isn’t my favourite vicar of christ of the last couple of millennia, but i don’t like the way some of my fri...
Fr George Rutler
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week iv sunday, december 23 : the fourth sunday of advent mi 5:1-4a; ps 80; heb 10:5-10; lk 1:39-45 monday, dece...
The Catholic Herald
Coping with the loss of the childhood innocence of Christmas
christmas is a time when even the secular world rediscovers the importance of ritual. every family has special christmas customs. they help ...
Fr Dominic Allain
Nine books that will lift your spirits
it is always a fascinating exercise to look back over the year and try to select the most memorable books reviewed. why this book and not th...
Francis Phillips
How the Diocese of Shrewsbury is creating a springtime of vocations
spring can seem far off in these darkest days of our year. yet at christmas, the days are already imperceptibly growing longer and brighter....
Bishop Mark Davies
What is the perfect Catholic cocktail?
when i approached our friends and colleagues about this little symposium, each one responded immediately with a moving appeal for their cand...
Michael Warren Davis
Letters & emails
the true significance of altar rails sir – mr b robinson (letter, december 7) asks whether we can have our altar rails back. the answer is i...
The Catholic Herald
Diary: Introducing Americans to the three-hour lunch
when the catholic herald team arrived to launch our 130-year-old magazine in america, i thought we were primarily on an intellectual mission...
William Cash
Armenian Apostolic Church appoints first-ever representative in Rome
the armenian apostolic church, one of six in the oriental orthodox communion, will have a fixed representative in rome, similar to the easte...
Andrea Gagliarducci/CNA
The best spiritual books of 2018
If you haven't already read these books, there's still time in the New Year
Francis Phillips
What it's like to assist at Mass with the Pope
A priest tells the story of how he concelebrated Mass with Pope Francis
Hannah Brockhaus/CNA
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week iii sunday, december 16: the third sunday of advent (gaudete sunday) zep 3:14-18a; is 12:2-3, 4, 5-6; phil ...
The Catholic Herald
A hymn to a great saint
i have been listening to a wonderful recording of an advent carol service from king’s college, cambridge. it begins with the hymn come, thou...
Fr Dominic Allain
Omnium Gatherum
"gaudete!” (rejoice!) is the nickname for this third sunday of advent. i hope you will see lovely rose vestments in your churches. they remi...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
The wit and wisdom of a superlative priest-writer
a year with fr rutler by fr george william rutler sophia institute press, 744pp, £200/$250 about time last year i flew to new york with a si...
Michael Warren Davis
The visions that lit up the trenches
a supernatural war by owen davies oup, 284pp, £20/$28 "there are no atheists in foxholes” – that’s the common perception of spirituality on ...
David V Barrett
Letters & Emails
letter of the week prosperity, poverty and the gospel sir – the catholic prosperity gospel is not something new (cover story, november 30). ...
The Catholic Herald
Rights need more than declarations
seventy years ago this week, the un’s universal declaration of human rights was published, and its clarion call of basic human rights for al...
Mary Kenny
Glimpsing the divine in St Petersburg
i have seen the future and it is russia’s past, although not necessarily the bit i expected, certainly not the communist era, which has almo...
Tim Stanley
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