Catholic Church

i’ve been involved in ongoing, fruitful discussions with theologians over the years. these have led to specific works such as my music theat...

Sir James MacMillan

as disputes continue over the mistreatment of refugees attempting the “balkan route” into europe, no government has been criticised as harsh...

Jonathan Luxmoore

vatican city readers, like us writers, are perhaps getting weary from the dizzying twists and turns on divorce, remarriage and the sacrament...

Fr Raymond de Souza

ash wednesday jl 2:12-18; ps 51; 2 cor 5:20—6:2; mt 6:1-6, 16-18 ‘remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” these powerful ...

Bishop John Sherrington

mike otterson is coming home. not all the way home (he is a scouser) but a lot closer than he has been for most of his career. otterson’s pr...

Alan Fimister

how to help the inspiring sister tarcisia sir – no one could fail to be moved and inspired by sister tarcisia hunhoff’s work to provide sore...

The Catholic Herald

discovering philip pullman’s his dark materials trilogy, as a child, was for me a moment of genuine wonder and awe. not since cs lewis had a...

Max Wind-Cowie

isabella by giles tremlett, bloomsbury, £25 from ascending the throne in 1474 to her death in 1504, isabella of castile transformed her home...

Michael Duggan

march 1 is ash wednesday. lent begins for the latin church. the eastern churches already begin fasting, abstaining from meat and dairy produ...

Fr John Zuhlsdorf

england's holiest family st walburga was born in devonshire in 710, the daughter of st richard the pilgrim. her brothers were st winibald an...

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