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Africa calling: Westerners must accept that Catholicism’s centre of gravity is shifting

british academic paul seabright recently published an intriguing new book called the divine economy , which attempts to offer an economic an...
John Allen

Westminster Diocese announces clergy moves and changes for 2024

mgr martin hayes, vicar general of the diocese of westminster, has issued the following information about forthcoming retirements, priests' ...
The Catholic Herald

Pope lets slip that Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati 'will be a saint soon’

the pope has revealed that blessed pier giorgio frassati will “be a saint soon” after he strayed from a speech he was giving at the vatican ...
The Catholic Herald

Potential pitfalls of Catholic Parish Summit’s evangelising spirit

if anyone is not familiar with the catholic parish summit, or the catholic ministry “divine renovation” that hosted the event, it was an int...
Heather Tomlinson

Our prisons are in crisis: our new government must act

by any objective measure, our prisons are in crisis. inspection reports reveal unacceptable conditions with reports of vermin, violence, sel...
Andy Keendowns

A bittersweet correspondence between Rainer Maria Rilke and his gardener friend

nick ripatrazone looks at letters around a garden by rainer maria rilke, written to his close friend antoinette, a gardener, a century ago. ...
Nick Ripatrazone

Across the Thames: a new book about Southwark but not much about its Catholics

liberty over london bridge: a history of the people of southwark by margaret willes yale university press, £20, 304 pages the dead are inter...
Andrew Cusack

Music for the Masses: The process of writing music to draw out and illuminate the sacred text

when the church chooses to renew its historic position as a patron of the arts by commissioning new sacred music for the liturgy, a composer...
Frank La Rocca

Body and soul: a selection of music to celebrate Corpus Christi and Ss Peter & Paul

proclaimed before the gospel on the feast of corpus christi, lauda sion is one of the four medieval sequences that remain in annual use. the...
Alex Hodgkinson

Where to eat after Mass: Igreja da Madalena, Lisbon, and Cervejaría Ramiro

this beautiful church in downtown lisbon, dedicated to st mary magdalene, has many attributes – among which is that it holds masses in engli...
Charles Pelham