Lent

Cardinal Pizzaballa has regained access to the Holy Sepulchre, but the episode exposes wider anxieties about the treatment of Christians in Jerusalem

Michael Haynes

A Holy Week dispute over access to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre has been resolved, with Cardinal Pizzaballa now able to enter the site after Israeli authorities reversed earlier restrictions

The Catholic Herald

Israeli police have blocked Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa from entering the Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday, setting what the Cardinal and Custos of the Holy Land describe as a “grave precedent”

Thomas Edwards

The liturgy of Palm Sunday places Christ’s entry into Jerusalem beside his Passion so we may enter more deeply into the mystery of salvation

Fr Samuel Burke OP

Brother René Stockman writes that Holy Week reveals how suffering and redemption are inseparable: from the Cross to the Resurrection, Christ enters human suffering to defeat it from within and open the path to eternal life

Brother René Stockman

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, has outlined major changes to Holy Week amid war in the region

The Catholic Herald

From the Psalms to baroque music, the Christian inheritance shows how genuine feeling emerges not from spectacle but from restraint, craft and grace

Lola Salem

The Norwegian Cistercian’s sermons for Pope Leo XIV combine theological depth, spiritual realism and an unflinching account of corruption, ambition and the healing of wounds

Naoise Grenham

Lent can become routine, with our normal pattern of giving something up each year removing the disruption it is intended to cause. One of the Herald’s chaplains explains how to rediscover the meaning of Lent

Chaplain

As conflicts multiply and suffering slips from view, Lent offers a summons to conversion, repentance and prayer, beginning with the small wars within our own hearts

Brother René Stockman