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Morning Catholic must-reads: 29/03/19

cardinal reinhard marx has insisted that the german church is not seeking “to ‘adapt to the spirit of the times,' as some people fear” . per...

What we might be asked at the gates of heaven

most of us have been raised to believe that we have a right to possess whatever comes to us honestly, either through our own work or through...

Fr Ronald Rolheiser

Heretic of the week: Caspar Schwenckfeld

caspar schwenckfeld (1489-1561) was yet another catholic priest who lost his mooring during turbulent times – in this case, the reformation ...

Charles Coulombe

Prize crossword 0586

cryptic across 6 mongolian leader is ‘bully, brute, animal’ (11) 8 queen’s opting out – in oxford, principal goes to ring fellow dinosaur (8...

How to… Befriend your guardian angel

"beside each believer stands an angel as protector and shepherd leading him to life," declared st basil in the 4th century. the catholic chu...

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I envied the nun who asked me: 'What's a selfie?'

what does it mean to be in the world and not of it? this is an essential question for lent. the christian humanism promoted by the church si...

Fr Dominic Allain

Omnium Gatherum: a water break on the Lenten marathon

the fourth sunday of lent is known by the first word of the introit, the first chant of mass, “ laetare … rejoice”! this is one of two days ...

Fr John Zuhlsdorf

James Clerk Maxwell: Behind the groundbreaking equations, a firm faith

professor maxwell’s duplicitous demon by brain clegg icon books, 304pp, £16.99/$25 names like albert einstein and isaac newton spring easily...

Quentin de la Bedoyere

The forgotten forerunners of St Patrick

saint patrick retold by roy flechner princeton, 320pp, £22/$28 the irish have a talent for promotion in a way their celtic cousins – the wel...

Letters & emails

population control myths won’t die sir –mary kenny says that 38-year-old bavarian schoolteacher verena braunschweiger “has vowed never to ha...

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