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Was 2023 the worst year for Christian persecution?

john newton and john pontifex describe the intimidation and murder of christians in pakistan, india, nigeria and other countries. “christian...
JohnNewtonJohnPontifex

Catholic schools need to be much more careful when promoting secular 'mental health' resources

earlier this year, you may recall seeing this rather disturbing headline,  “teacher told to apologise for addressing a classroom of fem...
Edmund Adamus

The 'War on Christmas' is lost: now it's time for Catholics to embrace the opportunities of the New Apostolic Age

i cannot recall a time when it was normal in the united states for strangers to wish one another “merry christmas” in the streets. neither c...
Peter Laffin

Home is where the hearth is

recalibrating christmas, one year at a time . midnight mass at the brompton oratory, 2013. as the celestial music and voices swirled to ever...
Flora Watkins

Spiritual Retreats 2023/24: Introduction

from arizona to argyll, here is our selection of places to reset, reflect and spiritually refresh mind and soul. many of our selected retrea...
The Catholic Herald

Divine Renovation is waking up churches

lay engagement is a working plan to bring about parish renewal. there can’t be more convivial places than boodle’s club in london to discuss...
The Catholic Herald

Celestial assault in a mind-altering performance of Hildegard’s soaring music

whatever we know about the 12th-century religious polymath hildegard of bingen is new knowledge, because she all but vanished from the recor...
Michael White

God’s good dogs: Saluting the legacy of Fr Patrick Primrose, a Dominican hero

dominicans in the british isles cannot boast of a long list of reformation martyrs. cromwell and his henchmen were largely quite successful ...
Albert Robertson OP

‘Mystic passionate emotion’: Hector Berlioz’s uncompromising Catholic vision

although he wrote a requiem mass, te deum , and other spiritual compositions, the french romantic composer hector berlioz has regularly rece...
Benjamin Ivry

Hear the angels sing: Some Christmas carols have a more complicated origin than we think

we might be surprised by the origin of certain christmas carols, says andrew gant one of the notable features of our much-loved christmas ca...
Andrew Gant