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✣ highlights from the week online disillusionment in the voting booth fr ed tomlinson found election day a gloomy experience. “i cannot reme...
Staff writers
Soviet-era martyr to be beatified
a lithuanian archbishop who was murdered with a lethal injection after 16 years in prisons and labour camps will become the first catholic m...
Staff writers
The war we’re not fighting against ISIS
to defeat isis, we need something more than a military strategy. a large part of the terrorists’ success lies in their skill at propaganda. ...
Adam DeVille
‘We’re not used to cardinals here’
last time i met bishop anders arborelius, we were toasting the canonisation of mother elisabeth hesselblad, the bridgetine nun who brought t...
Karl Gustel Wärnberg
Fr Raymond de Souza: The bishop who fought totalitarians
the recent death of cardinal lubomyr husar of kiev, and the forthcoming beatification of archbishop teofilius matulionis, the first lithuani...
Fr Raymond de Souza
How a garden can become a spiritual sanctuary
a calvary garden, a place for the contemplation of christ’s passion, has been created above the river artro in gwynedd, wales. it may be the...
Helen Harrison
Spiritual books round up
the roman catacombs by fr james spencer northcote, sophia institute press, £12 this book, first published in 1877 by an early member of the ...
Francis Phillips
Omnium Gatherum
each year, stretching back to the middle ages, on the thursday following trinity sunday we joyfully honour the eucharistic lord with masses,...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Saint of the week: John Fisher (June 22)
worldly success like st thomas more, whose feast day he shares, st john fisher had a reputation for holiness long before his actual martyrdo...
Staff Reporter
Lectio Divina
living bread the body and blood of christ: john 6:51-58 51 “i am the living bread that came down from heaven. if anyone eats this bread, he ...
Mgr Anthony Abela
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week iii sunday, june 18: most holy body & blood of the lord dt 8:2-3, 14b-16a; ps 147; 1 cor 10:16-17; jn 6...
The Catholic Herald
Pastor Iuventus
‘i can’t pray.’ are you sure? st teresa of avila is both encouraging and totally realistic about difficulties in prayer. she speaks honestly...
Pastor Iuventus
Christianity and noon-day fatigue
there’s a popular notion which suggests that it can be helpful to compare every century of christianity’s existence to one year of life. tha...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Catholics in Florida remember Pulse nightclub victims
The Diocese of Orlando held a prayer service a year on from shooting that left 49 people dead
Catholic News Service
Remains of African-American slave moved to Denver cathedral in step towards sainthood
US bishops voted to allow that Julia Greeley, a Missouri-born domestic worker, be investigated for a possible sainthood
Associated Press
The abuse crisis made Catholicism confront its dark side. Terrorism should do the same for Islam
We do a better service to Muslims by forcing them to confront the dark side of their community
Fr David Palmer
PICTURES: Bishops and politicians consecrate Church in Poland to Immaculate Heart of Mary
Clergy and faithful pledged to defend marriage, protect the rights of the unborn and resist “moral decay”.
Staff Reporter
The power of darkness
after terrorists killed at least seven people in london on saturday night, in the third attack in three months, theresa may declared that “e...
The Catholic Herald
Pope prays for healing after London attack
pope francis prayed for the victims of the terrorist attack in london at the end of mass on pentecost sunday. “may the holy spirit grant pea...
Staff writers
Ukraine’s ‘wise father’ dies at 84
cardinal lubomyr husar, known as the “spiritual father” of ukraine, has died aged 84. cardinal husar had inherited a church “on its knees, s...
Staff writers
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