Culture

Bach’s Mass in B Minor highlights how the great composer wove a ‘potent, steadfast faith' into his music

the "k" of the first kyrie shot straight down the middle of yale university’s impressive woolsey hall like a burning arrow; a foretaste of t...

Alex Hodgkinson

A surfeit of minor keys this Easter

michael white enjoys two requiems, a stabat mater and two outstanding premieres . musically, the journey through holy week to easter is a sl...

Canadian archbishop fights for right of church hospice to refuse euthanasia

no-one ever slides up a slippery slope. they only ever go down. euthanasia invariably involves a descent that is not so much like skidding t...

The genius of old age: Michelangelo's later works at the British Museum

the essential aspect of this exhibition is in the title: michelangelo, the last decades . how does genius age? michelangelo lived to a great...

Gertrude Clarke

State castration of child rapists denounced by Madagascan bishops

madagascar’s influential catholic bishops’ conference – usually loyal to the government – has denounced a new law for the castration for pae...

Why are some people so intolerant about children at Mass?

i have just stomped in from an otherwise lovely day celebrating our eldest child reaching double figures. children being rather more sophist...

Texas bishops publish new guidelines for use of wine at Mass in prisons

new york – in an effort to assist pastoral ministry staff, educate facility staff, and create better access to mass for inmates, the texas b...

A disturbing amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill is a clear threat to the Seal of Confession

parliamentarians can sometimes need watching carefully. the criminal justice bill, where debate is due to start today, is a case in point. w...

Prof Andrew Tettenborn

'Say no to abortion up to birth': What's at stake for the UK this 15 May

the whole pro-life movement is standing together to say "no to abortion up to birth” this wednesday on 15 may. this is why you need to join ...

Clare McCullough

US bishops urge Congress to address maternal health amid mortality rate surge

the three chairmen of the united states conference of catholics bishops recently wrote to congress to urge lawmakers to address the nation’s...