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Briefly noted

scarpia by piers paul read (bloomsbury, £8.99) . in this characteristically bold and stylish novel, read re-imagines puccini’s grand opera t...

Omnium Gatherum

as i tap on my awkwardly propped laptop in a van bouncing on roman streets, my mind turns to archangel raphael. i invoked him in the prayer ...

Fr John Zuhlsdorf

Saint of the week: John Paul II (October 22)

secret studies karol wojtyła was born in wadowice, a town in southern poland, on may 18, 1920. his sister, olga, died in infancy before karo...

Pastor Iuventus

the opus anglicanum exhibition at the victoria & albert museum opens a window on to medieval english catholicism and the splendour of pr...

Pastor Iuventus

Mass Readings

ordinary form divine office week ii sunday, october 23: 30th sunday in ordinary time sir 35:12-14, 16-18; ps 34; 2 tm 4:6-8, 16-18; lk 18:9-...

The Catholic Herald

Pictures of the Week

1 abbot francis baird welcomes three visiting thai buddhist monks to prinknash abbey in cranham, gloucester. 2 archbishop bernard longley an...

The Catholic Herald

October 23 to October 29

cardinal nichols (westminster) tue: mass – westminster celebration of the diamond jubilee of cardinal cormac murphy-o’connor’s ordination to...

The Catholic Herald

Writing about the Devil isn't lunacy - it's the purest realism

In its understated way, Fr Amorth's final book reminds us that Satanism is no joke

Francis Phillips

What I owe my ‘crazy’ nuns

Our nuns taught us that strong, well-organised women can run things without being bossed about by men

The Church tilts south

With both the Pope and the Jesuit superior general now hailing from Latin America, the centre of Catholic gravity has truly shifted