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New Zealand Bishops Welcome Changes to Canon Law

the secretary of the new zealand catholic bishops conference, bishop stephen lowe of hamilton, focused on tougher penalties for sexual abuse...

Profiting from Penance

the new british museum show, thomas becket: murder and the making of a saint , reveals the religious propaganda machine that existed to myth...

Brothers in alms

the entrance to the hospital of st cross, next to the st cross symondians cricket club on the outskirts of winchester, is tucked away down a...

Biden’s Faith in Solidarity

as i write this, i glance at a funeral mass card on a shelf above my desk. the card is from 1963 – for john f kennedy – recently retrieved f...

The pilgrimage of a lifetime

the ways in which we use the word pilgrimage have changed so much during my lifetime. and yet, i realise increasingly, the core of what it a...

Anya Hindmarch, an honorary Catholic?

full and fair disclosure: i am not catholic. but i did spend seven years at a catholic convent wanting to be part of the club. being the out...

In cheeses we trust

“don’t pick your nose.” “i wasn’t picking my nose, i was scratching.” “you was picking it, while you was talking to that lady.” so busy are ...

Anthony Cazalet

Unidentified ecclesiastical objects

anglican (and some catholic) friends usually regard post-war catholic churches with a degree of horror. the catholic church in this country ...

On Pilgrimage with Mark Hix

where would you go?   a few years ago i was due to go to southern india. we’d planned to stay somewhere quite remote that you could onl...

The Catholic Herald

Sacred flames

the time of the summer solstice, of greatest light and greenery, has always been one of the naturally numinous points of the year for humans...