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The week in quotations

"we never stopped imagining how beautiful our church would be, once fixed" fr george jahola on the reopening of a church desecrated by isis ...

Meanwhile: The gaffe that led to a vocation

in 2012, a web editor at the us sports media company espn was fired for a headline. on a story about the basketball player jeremy lin, who i...

The best of the web: St Bernard, Chaput, and effective preaching

how st bernard speaks to our time at charlotte was both, amy welborn wrote about st bernard of clairvaux’s de consideratione, a set of lette...

Overlooked: Hit film helps unexpected boom in Lourdes visitors

what happened? lourdes is experiencing a surge in visitors, helped by a successful film about the pilgrimage site. according to the times, 2...

The big story: Scholars' letter increases pressure on JPII Institute

what happened? the dispute over the fate of the john paul ii institute has escalated, after 49 scholars objected to the changes. the institu...

I'm not surprised the secular Sunday Assembly didn't work out

once, you couldn’t move for people talking up the sunday assembly. these are secular gatherings, first held in london in 2013, which replica...

Melanie McDonagh

This vivid guide to cathedrals forgets what they were built for

ships of heaven: the private lives of britain’s cathedrals by christopher somerville doubleday, 352pp, £20/$39.95 this is the book in which ...

No chastity please, this is Amazon Prime

amazon’s prime’s the boys (8 episodes) has a contemporary setting, except for its superheroes and the fact that they’re an accepted part of ...

Suddenly 'conspiracy theories' look all too plausible

much has been made in recent days of the prescient verisimilitude of stanley kubrick’s final film, eyes wide shut, which celebrated its 20th...

The Amazon synod organisers are at odds with Pope Francis

in a recent interview granted to la stampa, pope francis spoke about the synod for the amazon, which will take place in october. the synod’s...

Fr Raymond de Souza