Catholic Church

Mass helps me be a better mother

my daughter is nine years old and we are preparing for her first holy communion. as a result, we have become more regular churchgoers than i...

To stop terror, imams must preach damnation

at least this time we heard from the imams, who appeared on television to condemn the terrorism. too often they are nationally silent, even ...

‘We’re not used to cardinals here’

last time i met bishop anders arborelius, we were toasting the canonisation of mother elisabeth hesselblad, the bridgetine nun who brought t...

Karl Gustel Wärnberg

Fr Raymond de Souza: The bishop who fought totalitarians

the recent death of cardinal lubomyr husar of kiev, and the forthcoming beatification of archbishop teofilius matulionis, the first lithuani...

Fr Raymond de Souza

I attacked the ordinariate. Now I’m a Catholic

autumn 2007 haverhill, massachusetts, is a rusty, decaying old industrial town. it peaked in the 1940s, when it was the hub of shoemaking an...

Michael Warren Davis

How a garden can become a spiritual sanctuary

a calvary garden, a place for the contemplation of christ’s passion, has been created above the river artro in gwynedd, wales. it may be the...

Music: Gilbert & Sullivan are a monumental bore

deathless humour is a rarity. while jane austen, shakespeare and maybe chaucer can still make us laugh across the centuries, lesser masters ...

Music: The band that saved Germany from kitsch

can – the singles mute/spoon records, vinyl/cd/download can, typically for a so-called krautrock band, rejected germany’s saccharine post-wa...

Cardinal Kasper chases the spectre of Luther

martin luther: an ecumenical perspective by walter kasper, paulist press, £10 this slim volume weighs in at a mere 43 pages, some of which a...

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

Briefly noted

the image of god, personhood and the embryo by calum mackellar (scm press, £35) . the author, an expert on medical ethics and visiting profe...