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Eastern European bishops want a focus on Eucharist, fatherhood in Youth Synod
One bishop pointed out that the Instrumentum Laboris mentions the sacraments only 8 times
Andrea Gagliarducci/CNA
Gregorian chant: the cultural front line of the new evangelisation
The cultural and artistic value of chant exercises a powerful attraction
Joseph Shaw
At the synod, the Church's culture war looks a lot like class war
Progressive bishops want to replace 'rigid' codes and speak of sexuality 'without taboo'. How very bourgeois
Matthew Schmitz
Letters from the Synod-2018: October 12
Reports and Commentary, from Rome and Elsewhere, on the XV Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops
Xavier Rynne II
Archbishop Fisher is right: young people want clear and challenging teaching
The Australian archbishop's speech, in which he plainly confronted the abuse crisis and other failures of leadership, was a breath of fresh air
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
A strange response
catholics were starting to wonder whether the vatican would ever respond to archbishop carlo maria viganò’s passionate and sometimes ramblin...
The Catholic Herald
The synod is all too respectable
when pope francis was elected five years ago, he announced that he wanted to build a “poor church for the poor”. at the synod on youth takin...
Matthew Schmitz
Comments of the week
letters should include a genuine postal or email address, phone number and the style or title of the writer. email: letters@catholicherald.c...
The Catholic Herald
Spiritual books: reviewed by Francis Phillips
in his foreword to the treasure trove of prayer, ancient devotions to the sacred heart of jesus by carthusian monks of the 14th-17th centuri...
Francis Phillips
Omnium Gatherum
the elegant collect for the 28th ordinary sunday has been used for centuries on the 16th sunday after pentecost, according to the traditiona...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week iv sunday, october 14: the 28th sunday of the year wis 7:7-11; ps 90; heb 4:12-13; mk 10:17-30 monday, octo...
The Catholic Herald
'Pray the Rosary often', says bishop
Bishop John Wilson said Catholics can find solace in the Rosary no matter how 'spiritually flimsy' they feel
David V Barrett
Letters from the Synod-2018: October 5 – Commentary
Reports and Commentary, from Rome and Elsewhere, on the XV Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops
Xavier Rynne II
Sydney Archbishop apologises to young people for Church's failures
The Church failed the young not just through abuse but also failing to challenge them and offering 'unbeautiful' liturgy
Cindy Wooden
Archbishop Chaput to youth synod: Developed nations stuck in a 'moral adolescence'
Countries like the US style themselves as developed but are in fact 'underdeveloped in their humanity', Chaput said
Catholic News Agency
I helped oversee safeguarding in England and Wales. I wonder if some bishops ‘get it’
I witnessed the complacency of Church officials at first hand
Danny Sullivan
Where do Catholics and feminists agree? – An interview with Professor Tracey Rowland
Some feminists see the pill as an 'unnecessary technological intervention in a woman’s body'
Francis Phillips
A Pentecostal truce
even keen rome observers missed the speech that pope francis gave to the pontifical council for promoting christian unity last week. that is...
The Catholic Herald
The best of the web
✣ highlights from the week online how st cuthbert kept a book for 300 years at jstor daily, allison meier described the history of “europe’s...
Staff writers
Prize crossword 0562
cryptic across 5 bringing one to believe in lyric poet’s works (10) 6 terrier needs drink after getting exposed (8) 7 native americans welco...
Alun Evans
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