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Ridley Scott's 'Napoleon' manages the impressive feat of turning a 'great man' of history into an entirely uninteresting character

a sadly common feature of human beings is our ability to take something great and reduce it to something tawdry. think of the wonder of air ...

Anthony McCarthy

The 'War on Christmas' is lost: now it's time for Catholics to embrace the opportunities of the New Apostolic Age

i cannot recall a time when it was normal in the united states for strangers to wish one another “merry christmas” in the streets. neither c...

'I am getting better': Pope gives Angelus address from home again on Advent Sunday

rome – on advent sunday pope francis gave his noontime angelus address from his private residence rather than saint peter’s square in order ...

The greatest miracle of all: the incomprehensible natural phenomenon of human nativity

james lefanu describes the almost incomprehensible natural phenomenon culminating in the birth of each one of us . seeing the christmas stor...

Home is where the hearth is

recalibrating christmas, one year at a time . midnight mass at the brompton oratory, 2013. as the celestial music and voices swirled to ever...

Spanish government continues to crack down on Catholics praying rosary in public

the spanish government has come under fire after police forcibly dissolved a public gathering of catholics praying the rosary in madrid. thi...

Spiritual Retreats 2023/24: Introduction

from arizona to argyll, here is our selection of places to reset, reflect and spiritually refresh mind and soul. many of our selected retrea...

The Catholic Herald

God’s good dogs: Saluting the legacy of Fr Patrick Primrose, a Dominican hero

dominicans in the british isles cannot boast of a long list of reformation martyrs. cromwell and his henchmen were largely quite successful ...

Albert Robertson OP

‘Mystic passionate emotion’: Hector Berlioz’s uncompromising Catholic vision

although he wrote a requiem mass, te deum , and other spiritual compositions, the french romantic composer hector berlioz has regularly rece...

Hear the angels sing: Some Christmas carols have a more complicated origin than we think

we might be surprised by the origin of certain christmas carols, says andrew gant one of the notable features of our much-loved christmas ca...