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Who will protect Egypt’s Christians?
egypt has the largest christian community in the arab world. but as we were sadly reminded last week, that does not make the country a model...
Dan Hitchens
Omnium Gatherum
two of the seven female martyrs whose names are in the roman canon (first eucharistic prayer), ss felicity and perpetua, grace this coming m...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Lectio Divina
first sunday of advent: mt 4:1-11 1 then the spirit led jesus into the desert to be tempted by the devil. 2 after spending 40 days and night...
Mgr Anthony Abela
Saint of the week: Katharine Drexel (March 3)
enslaved in north africa katharine drexel was born in philadelphia on november 26, 1858, the second child of a rich banker, francis anthony ...
Staff Reporter
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week i sunday, march 5: first sunday of lent gn 2:7-9; 3:1-7; ps 51; rom 5:12-19; mt 4:1-11 monday, march 6: wee...
The Catholic Herald
Daniel Johnson: The man who transformed Catholic thought
some people still look askance at catholic intellectuals. it doesn’t seem to matter to most british philosophers, for instance, that many of...
Daniel Johnson
Christ Child that survived earthquake to go on display in Britain
The 15th-century doll was found amid rubble after an earthquake last year
Staff Reporter
Pope Francis celebrates Ash Wednesday Mass in Rome
In his homily, the Holy Father said Lent is a path that 'leads to the triumph of mercy'
Catholic News Service
Lent is more than a time of penance, says Pope
At his general audience, the Pope invited the faithful to renew their hope in Christ
Catholic News Service
Ecumenism can't be based on wishful thinking about the past
Anglicanism was born out of a movement that saw the destruction of all England's religious houses. We have to face that honestly
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Why are addicts and outcasts so often strongly religious?
Many people on the streets are holding fast to God when every other social tie has failed them
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Francis becomes first pope to visit Rome's Anglican church
Pope says Anglicans and Catholics must be 'always more liberated from our respective prejudices from the past'
Associated Press
Lessons from a New Age devotee who became a Catholic
The Church is engaged in a spiritual battle, says Roger Buck – and, in the West at least, it is losing
Francis Phillips
Bishops ask for world’s help to stop famine in South Sudan
The country's bishops have appealed for 'immediate and unconditional' intervention
Madeleine Teahan
Why Christians should embrace Philip Pullman
We have more in common with him than he might care to admit
Max Wind-Cowie
A beautiful Church for the poor
Post-Vatican II ugliness coincided with a collapse in the Church’s ministry to the marginalised. When beauty returns, so will Catholicism’s universal appeal
Matthew Schmitz
A beautiful Church for the poor
it is no secret that catholic worship has become less beautiful. jf powers, the impish catholic writer, counted as dear friends many artists...
Matthew Schmitz
How to get into spiritual shape
ash wednesday jl 2:12-18; ps 51; 2 cor 5:20—6:2; mt 6:1-6, 16-18 ‘remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” these powerful ...
Bishop John Sherrington
Comments of the Week
how to help the inspiring sister tarcisia sir – no one could fail to be moved and inspired by sister tarcisia hunhoff’s work to provide sore...
The Catholic Herald
Why Christians should embrace Philip Pullman
discovering philip pullman’s his dark materials trilogy, as a child, was for me a moment of genuine wonder and awe. not since cs lewis had a...
Max Wind-Cowie
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