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Ritual matters
ritual: how seemingly senseless acts make life worth living is the latest ethnographic offering of dimitris xygalatas, an anthropologist and...
Ben Stephens
The Church and Galileo
when it comes to pr disasters, the church’s handling of the galileo affair is right up there. to the modern mind, the galileo affair is the ...
Fr Robert Verrill OP
Diary: A heartening weekend at the Colloquium of the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy
ecce quam bonum et quam jucundum, habitare fratres in unum – psalm 133 as i reflect on my experience of lockdown as a new priest appointed t...
Fr Liam Carpenter
On pilgrimage with Joanna Bogle
where would you go? i’d go to walsingham. i love it. i’ve been on genuine pilgrimages, on foot, by coach – which you can keep; i loathe coac...
The Catholic Herald
Maintaining the Church’s identity is vital
cardinal francis arinze looks over his balcony on to st peter’s square, golden in the blazing sunshine. it’s so hot and humid, in fact, that...
Simon Caldwell
Let’s call the whole thing off
themes of sacral monarchy and jubilee linger in the liturgical observances of the two weeks after trinity sunday, with their great feasts of...
Ben Stephens
Will the next Pope be Asian?
as rumours continue to mount that pope francis could be on the verge of resigning , it is worth considering not just who the next pontiff co...
Staff Reporter
Catholics and other Christians back under attack in Nigeria
nigeria has been rocked by yet more attacks against the country’s sizeable christian population. africa’s most populous country - split near...
Staff Reporter
Bishop rebukes Irish president for blaming Islamist massacre on climate change
attributing violence against nigeria’s christians to climate change is “incorrect and far-fetched,” according to the bishop of a diocese whe...
CNA Staff
Queen offers example of Christian vocation lived fully, says Bishop Davies
queen elizabeth ii has shown to the world how a christian vocation can be lived fully in public life, the bishop of shrewsbury has said. in ...
Simon Caldwell
What message is the Pope sending with his choice of new cardinals?
the consistory for the creation of cardinals on august 27 is a ceremony that seems to mark the end of a pontificate — though that end might ...
andrea-gagliarducci
Pope Francis gives red hat to Archbishop Arthur Roche
pope francis said on sunday that he will create 21 new cardinals, including arthur roche, the former bishop of leeds, at a consistory on aug...
CNA Staff
Diary: Back down to Downside
i spend my first flight in years adding tabs into my new bible. somewhere over china, i manage to stick zachariah to matthew which results i...
Jessica Ogilvy Stuart
The fires of Saint John
the custom of lighting bonfires on june 23, the eve of the feast of the nativity of st john the baptist, is one of the most widespread of al...
Ronald Hutton
A Passion Project
i don’t recall too many conversations in my life beginning with the words: “when i was on the cross last night…”. but there was one the othe...
Michael White
Brick-by-brick Civil War thriller
the siege of loyalty house: a civil war story jessie childs bodley head, £25, 336 pages for a place that witnessed the longest and bloodiest...
John Adamson
Catholics join ecumenical celebration of the Millennium of Bury St Edmunds Abbey
the weekend of 14th and 15th may witnessed a historic return of benedictine monks to the site of the abbey of st edmund, bury st edmunds, wh...
Francis Young
Warhol’s Catholic tastes
nick ripatrazone finds the latest series about the artist perfectly depicts the startling paradoxes that guided his life and work the final ...
Nick Ripatrazone
The Herald’s Guide to Retreats
ampleforth abbey ampleforth, yorkshire founded in 1802, ampleforth abbey is home to the largest benedictine community in the uk, who run a s...
Olenka Hamilton
Chaos or Christianity
it was evelyn waugh, writing in a british newspaper, who warned his contemporaries how stark the choice was that faced them. ninety years la...
Gavin Ashenden
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