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It's Not All the Bitter Boomers' Fault

robyn beck/afp via getty images   i’ve just finished reading boomers, helen andrews’ send-up of her parents’ generation. my parents are...

Human Comedy, and Divine

hugh somerville knapman osb a limerickal commentary on the second vatican council arouca press 2020 reviewed by fr nicholas schofield this s...

Fr Nicholas Schofield

The Poetry of The Mass

cover image: pope francis celebrates mass in the sistine chapel on march 14, 2013 (afp photo/osservatore romano via getty images) &nbsp...

Habits of prayer

sarah sands’ recent book, the interior silence: 10 lessons from monastic life , was reviewed in these pages last month. elsewhere in the iss...

Serenhedd James

Trial for our times

the innocence of pontius pilate: how the roman trial of jesus shaped history david lloyd dusenbury c hurst & co, £25, 272 pages ________...

Sylvana Tomaselli

Biden's HHS Secretary Enjoys Bullying Nuns (For Having the Wrong Religion)

joe biden's secretary of the department of health and human services, xavier becerra, was in the news again in recent days, after a relative...

What Anti-Masker Hypocrisy Teaches

from talking to them, you'd think they were undoubtedly anti-maskers, anti-social distancers, and anti-vaxxers. you'd bet good money they'd ...

Cantalamessa's Talking to You

the preacher of the papal household, cardinal cantalamessa, preaching the good friday homily this year.  (photo by andreas solaro/pool/...

How McCarricks Happen

us cardinals (from l) justin francis rigali, adam joseph maida, edward michall egan, roger michael mahony, francis george, william henry kee...

Stephen Bullivant and Giovanni Radhitio Putra Sadewo

The Illiberal Project Will Fail

otto von habsburg, eldest son of karl i habsburg, meets pope john paul ii at the vatican, 04 october 2004. (pppl/afp via getty images) &nbsp...

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