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i have recently been reading david spiegelhalter and anthony masters’  covid by numbers: making sense of the pandemic with data  (...

Stephen Bullivant

there are all sorts of reasons why we choose the mass we usually go to: maybe it’s the music, or the lack of it, or the bells and smells, or...

Rev Dr Richard J Ounsworth

hearing i was planning a piece on the church’s penchant for puddings, dante, my naughty godson, immediately dived into google, determined to...

Anthony Cazalet

within a few minutes of meeting cardinal pell at the travellers club in pall mall, he makes a revealing comment about the proposed title of ...

William Cash

the second catholic relief act of 1791 marked the start of a century-plus of the building of  a series of interesting catholic chu...

Michael Hodges

there is a huge chestnut tree 50 yards from my study. chestnut trees make a lot of mess – shedding their conkers, spiky shells and leaves th...

charlie-hart

a campaign is to be launched to canonise a monk who dedicated his life to taking disabled people to lourdes. a mass celebrated at our lady o...

Simon Caldwell

pope francis has called for solutions to the european migrant crisis that last week cost the lives of 27 people in the english channel. the ...

Staff Reporter

elgar’s 1900 midlands setting of st john henry newman’s the dream of gerontius is a rich starting point for delving into english catholic cu...

Joanna-Bullivant

the birth of the christ child is an occasion to reflect on other babies and on life in the womb that precedes birth. the most dispiriting de...

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