Catholic Church

Mary Kenny: Iceland’s moral victory

it is claimed that the french philosopher albert camus once said that “what i’ve learned about morality i’ve learned from football”. the act...
Mary Kenny

What draws Muslims to the Church

hilaire belloc wrote in 1938 that “islam is apparently unconvertible”. but since the archdiocese of vienna reported five to 10 baptismal req...
Jacob Fareed Imam

The words all priests need to hear

it’s become something of a routine now. pope francis delivers a spontaneous lambasting of priests who do this or that which he disapproves o...
Fr Raymond de Souza

This might actually be Orthodoxy’s Vatican II

the long-awaited great and holy council of orthodoxy closed its deliberations in crete on june 26. given the tensions surrounding its convoc...
Fr Mark Drew

Showdown in the Philippines

only one cardinal had their own campaign song at the last conclave. not an official one, of course: presumably that would result in an early...
Luke Coppen

Libby Purves: What humanist funerals are missing

from the back of the church, striding, almost alarming, booms the celebrant: “i am the resurrection and the life.” the service rolls on: ful...
Libby Purves

Briefly noted

chiara lubich’s communitarian way to holiness by paloma cabetas (new city, £5). paloma cabetas is co-director of the focolare movement, foun...
Staff writers

When letter and spirit clash, there’s trouble

changed times by ethyl smith thunderpoint, £9.99 in this impressive first novel, ethyl smith creates a fast-paced story of catastrophic even...
Jane Taylor

Music: Genius Britten left me in Fluddes of tears

benjamin britten made a habit of writing music-theatre pieces to be done in church, with varying degrees of theatricity, ranging from the or...
Michael White

Mass Readings

ordinary form divine office week iii sunday, july 10: 15th sunday in ordinary time dt 30:10-14; ps 69; col 1:15-20; lk 10:25-37 monday, july...
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