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Fr Raymond J de Souza: Right saint, wrong place

i will be in rome for the canonisation of blessed oscar romero this sunday, but i wish i weren’t – in rome, that is. i would have preferred ...

Fr Raymond de Souza

When the Old Mass came to Balham

st bede’s has become one of london’s great liturgical churches. the departing parish priest explains how it all began st bede’s church, clap...

The synod is all too respectable

when pope francis was elected five years ago, he announced that he wanted to build a “poor church for the poor”. at the synod on youth takin...

Matthew Schmitz

‘Ireland is led by fools'

john waters’s career in irish journalism lasted for more than 30 highly successful years before he quit what he thinks has become an “ideolo...

Comments of the week

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The Catholic Herald

Film: A test approaches for the Polish Church

the polish film kler (“clergy”) was controversial even before its release. directed by wojciech smarzowski and featuring household names suc...

The conflict that changed an archbishop’s life

cardinal gerhard müller on how oscar romero became a shepherd, then a martyr revolutionary saint: the theological legacy of oscar romero by ...

Cardinal Gerhard Muller

Spiritual books: reviewed by Francis Phillips

in his foreword to the treasure trove of prayer, ancient devotions to the sacred heart of jesus by carthusian monks of the 14th-17th centuri...

Francis Phillips

Learning from a layman about the priesthood

it is sunday evening and i have a melancholic feeling of not wanting the sabbath to end, especially as it’s going to be (another) very busy ...

Fr Dominic Allain

Prize crossword 0563

cryptic across 7 saudi scam designed to remove one’s middle eastern capital (8) 8 contemptible scoundrel produces a stiletto (4) 9 prompt a-...