Catholic Church

Despite the scandals, we must love the Church

we can still love the church. we must love the church. those who truly love the lord jesus will not fail to love the mystical body of which ...
The Catholic Herald

Heretic of the week: Maximilien Robespierre

most people think of robespierre (1758-1794) simply as a bloody-handed mass murderer. but there was another side to the master of the terror...
Charles Coulombe

Prize crossword 0604

cryptic across 1 why best arty type is in welsh university (11) 9 chap to come a cropper hiding west of ireland abbess (7) 10 charge around ...
Alun Evans

How to… Survive soporific sermons

the gospel carries tremendous power when preached with honesty and conviction. it can therefore be disappointing when a priest preaches...
The Catholic Herald

This summer, don't take a holiday from God

every summer i put a short announcement in my parish newsletter with the aim of encouraging parishioners to make the effort to find a church...
Fr Matthew Pittam

Before God, we are hope-filled beggars

the collect for the 18th ordinary sunday was not in any previous edition of the missale romanum. it is a grammatically simplified versi...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf

The royal bully who retired to a monastery

emperor: a new life of charles v by geoffrey parker yale, 760pp, £25/$35 early 16th-century demographics can lead one to wonder how protesta...
James Baresel

Did World War II undermine Catholicism?

mass exodus by stephen bullivant oup, 302pp, £25/$32.95 why catholics leave, what they miss, and how they might return by stephen bullivant ...
Joseph Shaw

Mahler's anguished but enduring faith

in 1860, gustav mahler was born into a german-speaking jewish family in the bohemian village of kaliště, then part of the austrian empire. w...
Peter Davison

Letters & emails

catholics need a dash of confidence sir – hearing boris johnson expounding in the house of commons his belief in the greatness of the u...
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