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British Museum's Nero exhibit is 'hair-flattening' take on infamous figure

cover image: publicity for the british museum's  nero: the man behind the myth exhibit, 27 may - 24 october 2021 (image formatted to fi...

Lucien de Guise

Dublin archbishop calls residential zoning of Church buildings 'extraordinary attack on Catholic faith'

the archbishop of dublin, dermot farrell, has criticised the inclusion of church buildings and land under a new residential zoning land tax ...

Dualta Roughneen

Family and the Domestic Church

in 2007 pope benedict xvi said, “every home is called to become a ‘domestic church’ in which family life is completely centred on the lordsh...

The Last Day We Hugged Each Other

whether i’m headed to mass, to teach class, to perform juliet, or write an article, what i always ask when i wake up remains the same: “wait...

'I felt out of place praying at the tomb of a saint': A pilgrim finds Durham Cathedral inhospitable as it prepares for a pop concert

i have always been fascinated with british history. as a child, the monarchs, the anglo-saxons, the vikings, celts and romans all intrigued ...

Thomas Casemore

Abuse scandals and why I will never abandon the Church

as the catholic herald reported yesterday, catholics face another test of faith as news of another suspected sex abuse scandal involving our...

Archbishop's decision to bar Pelosi from Holy Communion is long overdue

archbishop salvatore cordileone of san francisco has finally announced that house speaker nancy pelosi should not be admitted to holy commun...

The Virgin praying... for Ukraine

one spring morning in 1987, 12-year-old maria kyzyn, from the village of hrushiv in west ukraine, declared that she had received a vision of...

Bread of Heaven: The forthcoming transition to John’s Gospel is full of meaning

this being year b of the sunday lectionary cycle, we will mostly be reading through st mark’s gospel; but only mostly, because it is the sho...

Fr Richard Ounsworth OP

The rich significance of Tolkien's classic

there is a strange contradiction that emerges whenever a large scale survey sets out to discover what book tops the list of the all-time bes...