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‘The best good in the world’: The US organisations leading a renaissance of Catholic sacred music

orange county – the place name conjuring images of the spray-tanned secular class splashing in the salty mist of the pacific ocean – may see...
Anna Farrow

Water in the desert: Pope Francis praises the faithfulness of the Church in Mongolia

ulaanbaatar – speaking to one of the catholic church’s smallest flocks, located in a region that has not always been hospitable to christian...
Elise Allen

From Cheltenham to Ryedale: the highs and lows of the festival season

the essex town of thaxted has assorted claims to fame, but for the most part they relate to its medieval parish church: a building of cathed...
Michael White

Catholic Good Schools Guide 2023: A-Z of Independent Schools

alton school hampshire headmaster : andrew reeve takes : boys and girls, aged 1-18  alton school is a day school in an old manor house ...
The Catholic Herald

Catholic Good Schools Guide 2023: Top ten senior independent schools

ampleforth college north yorks headmaster : peter roberts takes : boys and girls, aged 13-18 originally founded for 70 boys by the benedicti...
The Catholic Herald

The Chemist of Catania, by Alexander Lucie-Smith

the chemist of catania alexander lucie-smith self-published, £5, 235 pages not since ann radcliffe has a british author published a more som...
Georgia L. Gilholy

Kidnapped Nigerian priest and seminarian released by captors

a priest and a seminarian kidnapped in nigeria’s middle belt have been released after three weeks in captivity. fr paul sanogo and brother m...
The Catholic Herald

Q&A with Charlotte Avery of St Mary's School, Cambridge

charlotte avery, head of st mary’s school, cambridge, discusses what attracted her to what is now the only single-sex school in cambrid...
The Catholic Herald

How good was Good Queen Bess?

an ex-anglican re-learns history. it is surprising how many things we accept second hand and assume they are true without questioning them. ...
Gavin Ashenden

Q&A with Johneen McPherson of St Catherine's School, Twickenham

what did you do prior to becoming headmistress of st catherine’s and how long have you been in the role? i have been headmistress for five y...
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