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A Catholic childhood in Sri Lanka
the attack on local christians and western tourists in sri lanka on easter sunday grieved all people of good will, but especially catholics ...
Marion Boteju
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week iii sunday, june 2: the seventh sunday of easter acts 7:55-60; ps 97; rev 22:12-14, 16-17, 20; jn 17:20-26 ...
The Catholic Herald
How to… Climb the Holy Stairs
there is really only one way to climb the scala santa – or holy stairs – in rome, and that is on your knees. tradition holds that the white ...
The Catholic Herald
Discovering my rebellious spirit was a shock
st philip neri, whose feast day was on may 26, had many pithy maxims about the spiritual life. one of them was that you can measure a man’s ...
Fr Dominic Allain
A Catholic poet unskilled in the art of living
elizabeth jennings: the inward war by dana greene oup, 288pp, £25/$35 dana greene has written a sympathetic and perceptive study of the life...
Charlie Hegarty
Bishop Barron expresses real outrage – and it's wonderful
letter to a suffering church by bishop robert barron word on fire catholic ministries, 57pp, 99p/$1.25 (kindle) a priest for 33 years and a ...
Fr Thomas Berg
Why dragons keep getting bigger
viewers who could see through the exceedingly murky final game of thrones season found a smorgasbord of smoldering fires, charred corpses, a...
Menachem Wecker
Letters & emails
do younger catholics rarely sin? sir – when i was about seven, i learned from my penny catechism that “purgatory is a place where souls suff...
The Catholic Herald
John Paul II and the Cold War's decisive moment
forty years ago the communists got what they wanted, and lived to rue the day. when archbishop karol wojtyła of kraków was elected pope john...
Fr Raymond de Souza
Vatican II was meant to be the laity's 'coming of age'. So what went wrong?
on october 11 1962, st john xxiii formally opened the second vatican council. its avowed purpose was, he told the thousands assembled in st ...
Stephen Bullivant
The week ahead: Faith Movement, Romania and San Francisco
the faith movement is currently hosting a series of talks on the church. on tuesday june 4 christina read will speak on “healing as christ”....
Staff writers
Pope Francis reacted with 'sense of humour' to heresy accusation
pope francis said he reacted “with a sense of humour” to the accusation of heresy made against him earlier this month. “it does not hurt me ...
Courtney Grogan/CNA
Facing terminal cancer, Polish man ordained priest in hospital bed
may is ordination month in many dioceses, but the ordination of fr. michal los, fdp, a member of the orionine fathers, was far from your typ...
Catholic News Agency
Pope Francis: The Holy Spirit came as fire, not a schedule
pope francis thursday condemned an exaggerated focus on plans and agendas which do not leave room for the spontaneous work of the holy spiri...
Hannah Brockhaus/CNA
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week ii sunday, may 26 : the sixth sunday of easter acts 15:1-2, 22-29; ps 67; rev 21:10-14, 22-23; jn 14:23-29 ...
The Catholic Herald
Mass is more than remembrance: it makes the Resurrection present now
here is the collect for the sixth sunday of easter in the ordinary form, which was glued together from bits of prayers from ancient sacramen...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Letters & emails
why women cannot be ordained sir – i wonder why matthew schmitz (comment, may 17) did not give your readers the reason why pope st john paul...
The Catholic Herald
The best of the web: surviving communism, Marilynne Robinson, and a parish miracle
slovak catholics who survived communism at the american conservative , the eastern orthodox writer rod dreher introduced readers to the rema...
The Catholic Herald
Pope Francis is quietly paving the road to unity
pope francis is preparing to end this month as he began it: with a concerted effort to reach out to the orthodox world. on may 31, he is exp...
The Catholic Herald
This is how to deal with pro-abortion Catholic politicians
it’s rare these days to find catholics who want to enter into public service as catholics. most want to be “personally catholic” and “public...
C C Pecknold
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