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The empty chair at Easter

it is well known that when someone important dies, significant events, which we normally look forward to with joyful anticipation, become ti...

Olenka Hamilton

In the Beginning...

currently, the most-watched video on youtube that mentions aquinas in its title is “aquinas & the cosmological arguments”. so far, it ha...

Fr Robert Verrill OP

Pope Francis to Catholics in Vanimo: 'You are doing something beautiful'

vanimo – in one of papua new guinea’s most remote dioceses, pope francis arrived on sunday bringing both spiritual and material comfort to p...

Elise Ann Allen

Cheese and chard pie recipe: by Fr Albert Robertson OP

fr albert robertson op prepares a seasonal pie, a meal for june, after a trip to hospital to mend a sliced finger. well, it has finally happ...

Albert Robertson OP

Should the Synod on Synodality be ignored?

amid an increasingly leftwards turn by the synodal path in germany , and calls for upending catholic tradition in ireland , is it time to ig...

The Catholic Herald

Safeguarding children and vulnerable adults

how do we help children and adults who have been abused? the first thing is to talk about it, recognising that it is endemic in our world. t...

Urgent prayers needed for kidnapped Nigerian priest

kafanchan, nigeria, sep 14, 2021 / 20:00 pm prayers are being sought for the quick and safe release of a catholic priest, father benson bulu...

Christine-Rousselle

Donatello's outstanding virtuosity shows both his devotion and his playfulness

donatello, ascension with christ giving the keys to st peter, c.1430 . victoria & albert museum, london visitors to the v&a’s donate...

How Jesus dodged Pharisees’ passive-aggressive trap to reveal how to love both your Lord and neighbour

“‘you shall love the lord your god with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ this is the greatest and first comm...

Fr David Howell