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Brazilian Church leaders increasingly critical of Brazil's Bolsonaro

people holding a brazilian flag that reads "522,000 deaths, we won't forget" take part in a demonstration on 3 july 2021. (sergio lima/afp v...

Eduardo Campos Lima

Southern African Bishops call for restraint, dialogue in Eswatini

bishops in southern africa are calling for “restraint and a spirit of meaningful dialogue” in the kingdom of eswatini as the government crac...

Free the Latin Mass, for the good of the Church and the people who need it

apparently they never give up. some bishops want “to see the extraordinary form of the roman rite explicitly suppressed, or subject to furth...

Oxford Dreams

“i am beginning to take active steps to carry out my oxford dreams,” the dominican fr raphael moss confided to his diary on 26 june 1904. hi...

Rev Dr Richard Finn

A communion conundrum

until my late father-in-law went into a care home and forgot about church, he’d only missed mass twice in the entire course of his nine deca...

Cressida Connolly

Smaller wedding – stronger sacrament?

i wonder whether we should really be lamenting the latest delay of so-called freedom day quite so much. confusingly, under new rules there w...

Constance Watson

Diary: Paying homage to Our Lady of Lord's

mass during the pandemic has generally been more old than new rite, extraordinary rather than ordinary.  it turns out that many modern ...

Jacob Rees-Mogg

The Passion(fruit) of St Swithin

what an amazingly versatile food an egg is. i well remember as a child the slogan of “go to work on an egg”, the very successful advertising...

Rediscovering Ronnie

a few years ago i returned from the bodleian to find a small parcel in my college pigeon hole, placed there by the senior tutor. it containe...

Serenhedd James

Mysteries of the hidden oratory

very few secret catholic chapels from the 16th century have been identified in england – fewer, indeed, than the “priest holes’”(properly ca...

Francis Young and Brigitte Webster