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Saint of the Week: St Hugh of Grenoble (April 1)

son of an army officer st hugh of grenoble was born in châteauneuf-sur-isère in 1053, the son of an army officer. he was well liked because ...
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Omnium Gatherum

with the fifth sunday of lent, we of the roman church enter into passiontide. since time immemorial it has been called 1st passion sunday. d...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf

The best of the Catholic blogosphere

✣ highlights from the week online the lowdown on genuflection in church should you always genuflect when entering a catholic church? not nec...
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Pictures of the week

1 bishop john wilson, headmaster andrew johnson and the mayor of ealing, cllr dr patricia walker, after the dedication of the new chapel at ...
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April 2 to April 8

cardinal nichols (westminster) sun: holy land 2016 reunion, vaughan house, london, sw1p 1qn, 2.00pm. mon: meetings in rome (day 1), italy, a...
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John Charmley: A Churchill or a Nero?

the “good clean tradition of politics has been weakly surrendered to a half-breed american whose main support was that of inefficient but ta...
John Charmley

Briefly noted

how to be holy by peter kreeft (ignatius press, £14) . kreeft is a prolific and highly readable catholic writer on varied topics, including ...
Staff writers

Prize crossword 0484

cryptic across 5 they are placed opposite, against the work of schubert in the poet school (9) 8 point at this moment to evidence winter is ...
Alun Evans

How a pizza empire changed the Church

monaghan by joseph pearce, tan books, £23 before i read this biography i would not have thought that the life of the man who built the domin...
Charlie Hegarty

Mass readings

ordinary form divine office week i sunday, april 2: fifth sunday of lent ez 37:12-14; ps 130; rom 8:8-11; jn 11:1-45 monday, april 3: weekda...
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