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‘The best good in the world’: The US organisations leading a renaissance of Catholic sacred music

orange county – the place name conjuring images of the spray-tanned secular class splashing in the salty mist of the pacific ocean – may see...

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: The return of the school uniform in France

in 2017 saint-jean de passy, a private school in the 16th arrondissement of paris, introduced what it called a “practical, modern and sober”...

Water in the desert: Pope Francis praises the faithfulness of the Church in Mongolia

ulaanbaatar – speaking to one of the catholic church’s smallest flocks, located in a region that has not always been hospitable to christian...

Mongolia and the papacy: thinking in centuries

rome – legendarily, the vatican thinks in centuries. there’s a sense in which pope francis’s visit to mongolia this week, the first ever by ...

The Jesuit churches of Lancashire

three churches in the county still remain under jesuit control, but many more have been passed on to diocesan or other authorities . lancash...

Small is beautiful: Pope Francis's encouragement for Mongolian Catholics

ulaanbaatar – on his second full day in mongolia, pope francis met with pastors and missionaries who serve the country’s tiny catholic flock...

'The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F**k' is nihilistic

mark manson is not a philosopher, nor is he a psychologist, but you may still have heard of him. if not, you are certainly likely to have he...

Karl Gustel Warnberg

By stacking the odds in his favour, does Pope Francis risk splitting the vote at the next conclave?

almost 300 years ago, a minor french playwright by the cumbersome name of léonor-jean-christine soulas d’allainval – he mockingly referred t...

The transcendental character of an ancient abbey

in the forests of the thar valley, in the shadow of mont st michel, lies the abbaye de la sainte-trinité de la lucerne d’outremer....

Q&A with Rachel Owens and Antony Hudson of St George's School, Weybridge

the following answers are from rachel owens, head of st george's senior school/college: what did you do prior to becoming head of st george’...

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