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Notebook from Lourdes: the role of Catholic journalists today
three days were set aside for the 26 th meeting of catholic journalists - the catholic media federation's international day of saint f...
Tom Colsy
One more step: Church of England bishops to bless same-sex unions
the church of england has been in turmoil about sex for as long as most of us have lived. rather in the way climate alarmists anticipate the...
Gavin Ashenden
Christian unity, Catholic incoherence and Pell’s remedy
the week of prayer for christian unity can be, for many, one of the most depressing weeks of the year; so much aspiration deflated by so lit...
Gavin Ashenden
Something sinister about the Synod (with Cardinal George Pell)
https://audioboom.com/posts/8070408-something-sinister-about-the-synod-with-cardinal-george-pell “what weight do we give to the teaching of ...
The Catholic Herald
The enduring power of the Christian funeral
i have heard it said that every funeral, whatever the scale and whatever the setting, ought to be in some sense a confrontation with death. ...
Niall Gooch
Eyes on the East: Keeping Christmas with the Ukrainian Catholic Church
as the three wise men make their way home in the latin rite, many eastern christians will only just be ending the fast before the nativity. ...
Fr Mark Woodruff
In St Peter's Square: Notebook from Rome
the dome of st peter’s was shrouded in mist for the funeral of pope benedict, with the cupola and the cross disappearing behind the figures ...
Melanie McDonagh
On the eve of Pope Benedict's funeral: Notebook from Rome
photo: vatican media the crowds are quieter this time. by comparison with the enormous throng of people – most of them poles – who came to s...
Melanie McDonagh
Curbs on Traditional Latin Mass 'broke Pope Benedict’s heart'
new curbs on the traditional latin mass “broke pope benedict’s heart”, according to his private secretary. archbishop georg gänswein, the cl...
Simon Caldwell
World leaders bid farewell to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
viktor orbán was among world leaders to visit st peter’s basilica in rome on tuesday, where he paid his respe cts to pope emeritus benedict ...
Diana Montagna
Benedict XVI and my vocation to the priesthood
no matter how inevitable or indeed no matter how unexpected, death has a powerful way of gripping the heart and bringing the mind into sharp...
Fr Paschal Uche
The Harpole Treasure gives us a glimpse into Anglo-Saxon England’s great women of faith
archaeologists excavating ahead of a housing development at harpole, near northampton, have discovered an astonishing 7th-century burial. ac...
Francis Young
How will Pope Francis mark this year's significant anniversaries?
pope francis will face many challenges in 2023 – but it’s a year that also happens to be filled with significant anniversaries, including th...
Diana Montagna
Benedict XVI: a teacher for the whole world
it was the morning of 19 april 2005, and i was in north carolina. i was a senior at duke divinity school and was in duke chapel with my spir...
Matthew Olver
The many parallels between the boxing ring and the spiritual life
martial arts, boxing and the catholic faith seem unlikely bedfellows. once again british heavyweight tyson “gypsy king” fury has retained hi...
Karl Gustel Warnberg
A Protestant attempt to establish a version of Catholicism without the papacy in Rome
i have often been the victim of swot analysis – away-days with colleagues where we are forced to reflect on strengths and weaknesses, opport...
Dr Mark Chapman
Father Brown and the Mystery of Chesterton
with due deference to the originator of the latest foray in to the world of father brown, i doubt many devotees of gk chesterton’s clerical ...
Fr Hugh Somerville-Knapman
Benedict XVI: Compassion without compromise
it was thursday 18 august, 2005, and we were on the banks of the rhine in cologne. hand in hand, my friend and i had run, squealing, back an...
Margaret Nicholson
Defenders of the Faith: The British Monarchy, Religion and the Next Coronation
catherine pepinster hodder and stoughton, £25, 352 pages on october 11, 1521 leo x con- ferred the title fidei defensor on henry viii for hi...
William Davage
January blues
my father and i have a long-running minor disagreement about which is the worst month. for me, it’s january. you’re back to work after chris...
Niall Gooch
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