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The year couples left the Church ‘on tiptoe’

michael duggan steps into a time machine that takes him back to humanae vitae the schism of ‘68 edited by alana harris, palgrave, 400pp, £69...

No one can tell how a child will grieve

children and loss by sue mcdermott, redemptorist publications, 65pp, £4.95 this is an excellent booklet, scripted by an author who has more ...

Fr Denis Blackledge SJ

Word this week

the 29th sunday of the year is 53:10-11; heb 4:14-16; mk 10:35-45 (year b) throughout the world this sunday is kept as world mission day. we...

Bishop David McGough

Omnium Gatherum

the collect, ancient in origin, for this 29th ordinary sunday in the novus ordo , is prayed in the extraordinary form on sunday after ascens...

Fr John Zuhlsdorf

Mass readings

ordinary form divine office week i sunday, october 21: the 29th sunday of the year is 53:10-11; ps 33; heb 4:14-16; mk 10:35-45 monday, octo...

The Catholic Herald

Prize crossword 0564

cryptic across 1 california’s (whichever way you look), north america’s ‘promised land’ (6) 4 dreadfully-sounding irish county (6) 8 easterl...

Matthew Walther: The consoling gloom of Paul VI

i have no doubt that giovanni battista enrico antonio maria montini currenly enjoys the beatific vision for the very simple reason that i ha...

Matthew Walther

Tiananmen Square to St. Peter’s Square: Who are the Chinese bishops at the synod?

One bishop said Chinese Catholics should learn to adapt to a communist society

Courtney Grogan/CNA

Pope tells seminarians to report abuse ‘immediately’

'If you see something like [abuse], [go] immediately to the bishop'

Hannah Brockhaus/CNA

What kind of archbishop is needed in Washington?

Wuerl has hinted that his successor should be someone unconnected with the current scandals