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since the 17th century devotion to the immaculate heart of mary has spread in parallel with the sacred heart devotion. the latter emphasises...

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as christians, we are asked to imitate christ. how do we do this? one way is to imitate jesus’s action of holding, carrying, purifying and t...

Fr Ronald Rolheiser

cryptic across 3 dubiously approach leader of yemen in secret matters (9) 7 wind up on stage? (4) 8 scandy set noir that’s odd, integrally d...

Alun Evans

twenty years ago this week i was on retreat in france preparing for priestly ordination. i remember it as a time overflowing with gifts of g...

Fr Dominic Allain

as this number of the weekly magazine you now peruse was issued, we celebrate the most sacred heart of jesus. in the church’s post-conciliar...

Fr John Zuhlsdorf

ss peter and paul 1 kgs 19:16b, 19-21; ps 16; gal 5:1, 13-18; lk 9:51-62 (year c) the preface for the solemnity of saints peter and paul hon...

Bishop David McGough

the international eucharistic congress: a spiritual odyssey by john f allen gracewing, 383pp, £20/$27.50 in this book mgr john allen, who ha...

Fr Nicholas Paxton

the role of the scroll by thomas forrest kelly, ww norton, 181pp, £19.99/$29.95 in 1387, bishop john fordham of durham entertained king rich...

Simon Caldwell

the national gallery of art in washington, dc is treating visitors to a special exhibit of jacopo tintoretto’s works in celebration of the v...

Jeff Cimmino

the meaning of a catholic business sir – christopher altieri, in the cover story of the june 14 edition entitled “the other scandal”, mentio...

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