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The beauty of rood screens
The screens were once the main visual showpiece of a church
Harry Mount
Is the Vatican giving a promotion to laypeople?
What a Vatican reshuffle shows about its attitude to the laity
Fr Raymond de Souza
How will faithful Catholics thrive under secularism? Try the 'Village Option'
We're trying to build a Nazareth in Lancashire
Fr Armand De Malleray
Bahrain: Catholics return to the desert
a cathedral is being built in the arabian peninsula there were christians in the arabian desert before the coming of islam: they included bi...
Gerard Russell
Diary: by James MacMillan
my son aidan is getting married next month. he and his bride will have their nuptial mass in cumnock, my old home town in ayrshire. to be ho...
Sir James MacMillan
A holy history
the hymn “onward, christian soldiers” has a line reminding us: “brothers, we are treading/where the saints have trod”. english catholics oug...
Joanna Bogle
Fr Raymond J de Souza: A promotion for lay people
it was thirty years ago this summer that st john paul ii promulgated pastor bonus, his reorganization of the roman curia, completing the cur...
Fr Raymond de Souza
Where pre-Reformation glory can still be seen
rood screens by richard hayman, shire books, 64pp, £7.99 rood screens? surely you can’t write a whole book about them – and, if you do, sure...
Harry Mount
Word this week
the 18th sunday of the year ex 16:2-4 & 12-15; eph 4:17 & 20-24; jn 6:24-35 (year b) "he rained down manna for their food and gave t...
Bishop David McGough
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week ii sunday, august 5: 18th sunday in ordinary time ex 16:2-4, 12-15; ps 78; eph 4:17, 20-24; jn 6:24-35 mond...
The Catholic Herald
Pope Francis meets 60,000 altar servers from around the world
The Pope told the servers to aspire to become saints
Junno Arocho Esteves
How Newman fell in love with the Blessed Sacrament
The reservation of the Blessed Sacrament in Catholic churches impressed and moved Newman more than anything else
Fr Ian Ker
Man thanks Australian saint for miracle Parkinson's cure
Ricky Peterson's symptoms disappeared immediately after praying at the tomb of St Mary MacKillop
Catherine Sheehan
Chapels desecrated, bishops assaulted: the attack on Nicaragua's Church
Nicaragua’s clergy are preaching peace. But President Ortega has accused them of plotting a coup
Miguel Cullen
Bishops on the barricades
shaky video footage shows priests processing with the blessed sacrament through the low-walled streets of sébaco. this is no ordinary day in...
Miguel Cullen
Arts essay: A good man who was so nearly Catholic
in one of those gorgeous verbal doodles with which he filled the pages of his absorbing (and at the time quite illegal) wartime journal, hug...
Matthew Walther
Word this week
the 17th sunday of the year 2 kgs 4:42-44; eph 4:1-6; jn 6:1-15 (year b) today, and over the coming weeks, the sixth chapter of john’s gospe...
Bishop David McGough
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week i sunday, july 29: 17th sunday in ordinary time 2 kgs 4:42-44; ps 145; eph 4:1-6; jn 6:1-15 monday, july 30...
The Catholic Herald
The saint who rode into battle armed only with a crucifix
St Lawrence of Brindisi put all the strength of his heart, soul and mind into both his interior life and outward activities
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Catholic bishops ‘behaving like coup plotters’, says Nicaraguan president
Daniel Ortega accused them of stirring up dissent against his government
Staff Reporter
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