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Disney's Raya and the Last Dragon: More fluff than teeth

cover image:  raya and the last dragon , © disney if disney’s raya and the last dragon seems familiar, that might be because…well, beca...

Steven D. Greydanus

Aramaic through the Ages

this essay is part two of a three-part series by sam sweeney, a writer and translator based in the middle east, who wrote most recently for ...

Pope Francis in Iraq: Speaking the language of Our Lord

a view of the entrance of the syriac catholic church of the immaculate conception (al-tahira-l-kubra), in the predominantly christian town o...

Huzzah! Or, what a bawdy "historical" drama can teach us about Church reform

cover image © hulu “i'm happy to hear anyone's problems with me. don't worry about the bodies.” peter iii of russia stands before his royal ...

Charles Collins

UN Working with DRC to Bring Killers to Justice

the un is working “hand-in-hand with both the congolese and italian authorities as they conduct criminal investigations," into the attack la...

Christopher Altieri

Saints and Sales – Our top 10 religious bestsellers

there have been more than 260 popes since st peter. but it was not until paul vi that a pope had visited all five continents and not perhaps...

The Catholic Herald

Finding God on a Mountaintop

as i kissed my fiancée soledad goodbye at the airport, i felt full of excitement. it was 12 october 1972, and i was off to santiago in chile...

A Pope for our times

one of the things one looks forward to when opening a john cornwell book on the latest civil war battle in the church, or a new papal portra...

Bridge over troubled waters: Joe Biden and Catholicism in the US

joe biden and catholicism in the united states massimo faggioli, £18.99, 176 pages, bayard ________ on paper, it looks like a takeover: not ...

Crisis? What crisis?

cathedral basilica of saints peter and paul, philadelphia (credit: shakzu, istock) one of my favourite pastimes as a priest is listening to ...