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'Super Tuesday' puts Catholics in even tighter spot: Can you vote in good conscience for either presidential candidate?

on so-called super tuesday the american presidential primary campaign came to an effective end. the primary process, by which the two partie...
Ken Craycraft

Every word a painting

the sleeve should be illegal and other reflections on art at the frick, edited by michaelyn mitchell £27, 168pp, art publishers ________ the...
Laura Freeman

Seeking the conversion of England on the Road to Walsingham with the LMS

every country in which the catholic faith has been planted has its holy places. in the words of the blessed virgin mary, reported in the pyn...
Joseph Shaw

Seeking peace in Palestine

a few days ago, i was at the home of some jewish friends in jerusalem for a seder meal. it was also the first friday of ramadan, as well as ...
Rev Carrie Ballenger

Catholics and 'eucharistic' Dorito chips collide as US election gets even whackier

there are no signs that this us presidential election campaign is going to get any less zany, fraught and often just downright baffling. amo...
James Jeffrey

The Ministry of Truth 'queers' the Brontë sisters

while some catholics may be celebrating the news about archbishop viganòis being dragged to the vatican by his tinfoil mitre, others are not...
Katherine Bennett

Wine for the Masses

when i attended my godson dante’s first communion in modena years ago, he nearly dodged his inaugural sip of sacramental wine, an unthinkabl...
Anthony Cazalet

A treasury of spiritual poetry

a century of poetry rowan williams spck, £19.99, 320 pages in rowan williams’s recent compendium he presents and examines 100 poems composed...
Jane Cooper

World Communications Day and Catholic journalism's role to 'guide and inspire'

on the sunday before pentecost the catholic church celebrates the role of communications media and focuses on how it can best use such platf...
The Catholic Herald

Some questions are anathema to human nature and should not be asked

faith in human life’s inherent value is waning around the world. for now, though, it at least persists on chesterfield railway station’s sec...
Nicholas Reed Langen