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The week ahead: Mercy bus, knights' convention, and cakes
the mercy bus is returning to the streets of scotland. the bus, which offers confession and spiritual guidance, has received 400 passengers ...
Staff writers
'Feelings are of little account': the wisdom of Sister Mary David
are you interested in how a funny, sporty, charismatic, well-read, modern woman might want to spend the rest of her life shut up in a tradit...
Andrew M Brown
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week i sunday, july 28 : 17th sunday in ordinary time gn 18:20-32; ps 138; col 2:12-14; lk 11:1-13 mon...
The Catholic Herald
How to … Practice Ignatian discernment
st ignatius of loyola, whose feast is celebrated by the catholic church on july 31, is famous principally for founding the society of jesus,...
The Catholic Herald
You can't win the spiritual battle without discipline
on the 17th ordinary sunday the collect for holy mass once again presents military imagery. it’s as if our holy mother were trying to make a...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
I was wrong about golf
shamefully, i had long been prejudiced against golf and golfers, and was amused when someone described the game as “a good walk spoiled...
Mary Kenny
The inexplicable transfer of St Peter's relics to Constantinople
the decision to send the relics of st peter from the private chapel of the papal apartment to the ecumenical patriarchate of constantin...
Fr Raymond de Souza
'You ask them: Are you serious?': An interview with Cardinal Arinze
it’s a sunny morning in london on the feast of corpus christi and, not coincidentally, i’m standing outside the presbytery of corp...
Dan Hitchens
Diary: The moment I knew I had to be Catholic
in the spring of 2011, i had everything planned out. i was heading to italy for a six-week study abroad programme. my primary goal was to en...
The Catholic Herald
A teenager's spiritual diary has become an unexpected hit
there are many words that describe joe wilson: gracious, affable, gentle, kind, studious, humble, thoughtful, patient and non-judgmenta...
The Catholic Herald
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week iv sunday, july 21 : 16th sunday in ordinary time gn 18:1-10a; ps 15; col 1:24-28; lk 10:38-42 mo...
The Catholic Herald
How to… Use holy medals
there is a theory that the use of holy medals in the catholic church might have originated from pagan practices, when missionaries christian...
The Catholic Herald
The hardest thing about my last 20 years as a priest
in the days before there were memes, evangelical churches used to display catchy posters on their noticeboards. they included “ch —ch. what’...
Fr Dominic Allain
I was agnostic, my friend a 'mere Christian'. We both found the path to Rome
my friend benjamin brazzel’s journey to the catholic church almost began in a mosque. he was invited there by a friend, and was struck ...
Jeff Cimmino
What's the point of Catholic high schools?
somewhere amid all the things that come with being a high school – the football games, the english classes, the hundreds of extracurricular ...
Steve Larkin
What China's Catholics really think of the Vatican deal
recently i strolled slowly up a hill with a local priest in a remote area of china. he remained close to me as we ascended steep slopes to a...
Anthony E Clark
The best of the web: America's African priests, a new religion, and leaving Orthodoxy
how african vocations are helping america at quartz africa , lekan oguntoyinbo reported on “a growing trend in the catholic church in americ...
Staff writers
Wanted: certain kinds of saints
the french philosopher simone weil once commented that it’s not enough today to be merely a saint. rather, “we must have the saintliness dem...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week iii sunday, july 14 : 15th sunday in ordinary time dt 30:10-14; ps 69; col 1:15-20; lk 10:25-37 m...
The Catholic Herald
King Arthur changed the way I receive Communion
july 1 is the feast of the precious blood in the traditional calendar, and in certain privileged places and orders in the 1969 version. it i...
Charles Coulombe
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