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Sunday's Gospel: Jesus is the living bread, come down from heaven

anyone who eats this bread will live for ever; and the bread that i shall give is my flesh, for the life of the world. (john 6:51) it is har...
Fr David Howell

Pope Francis calls Chinese "a great people" and engages with criticisms of his papacy

rome – in a new interview with the jesuit province of china, pope francis expressed his desire to visit the country and spoke of his admirat...
Elise Allen

Vatican approves devotion to 16th-century Vailankanni Marian shrine in India

the vatican continues to make progress in wading through its backlog of requests for rulings on alleged marian apparitions and other spiritu...
Elise Allen

Don’t despair at Last Supper parody: Paris still has a beating heart of faith

it’s hard to stand up in front of a sunday mass congregation and announce that in the coming week you’re going on pilgrimage to paris (and t...
Albert Robertson OP

EDITORIAL: It's a reckoning when there is only one seminarian for the whole of Dublin

the maxim that the sins of the fathers are visited on the sons is true in a particularly grim sense in ireland where, in the archdiocese of ...
The Catholic Herald

Is religion bouncing back during these Olympics?

while the fallout from the strange scenes of the olympics' opening ceremony continues to play out – the bbc’s latest moral maze focused on t...
The Catholic Herald

Refreshingly honest account of Queen Victoria: from foibles and failings to her sense of duty and religious leanings

queen victoria and her prime ministers: a personal history anne somerset william collins, £30, 630 pages for two-thirds of the last two cent...
Fr Mark Vickers

How Simone Weil became a 'slave' of Christ

"i was alone,” simone weil wrote. “it was evening and there was a full moon over the sea.” in august 1935, weil was in a small portuguese vi...
Nick Ripatrazone

Trump warns of anti-religious Democrat policies: ‘They’re really after the Catholics’

donald trump has warned us catholics against voting democrat in the forthcoming us presidential election, saying “they’re after the catholic...
Simon Caldwell

FEATURE: An encounter with the resilience and spirituality of Lebanon's enigmatic Maronite Catholics

“the innocent man will flourish as the palm-tree flourishes; he will grow to greatness as the cedars grow on lebanon.” (psalm 91:13) after a...
Tom Colsy