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Bishop quits after finding role 'too great a burden'

pope francis has accepted the resignation of the bishop of hexham and newcastle who has quit almost a decade before he was due to retire, sa...

Already, and not yet: waiting for the coming of Christ

there’s something about advent which speaks to the hearts of us all. because advent is two things. it is a season which is incredibly specia...

Fr Mark Vickers

Podcast 29: In defence of ex-Anglicans with Dr Michael Nazir-Ali

monsignor michael nazir-ali, the former anglican bishop of rochester who became a catholic in 2021, joins dr gavin ashenden for this 29th ep...

Vatican treats for the Christmas table

those wonderful boys in the swiss guard have done it again. after the vatican cookbook of 2016, which must by now surely be in every catholi...

Worth the wait: Piero’s "Nativity" unveiled in all its glory

after three years of painstaking work, piero della francesca’s famous nativity , from the early 1480s, has returned to public display in the...

The Irish Church: saints and sinners

"writers are often loners; journalists are sociable.” so says mary kenny, but in self-identifying as gregarious journalist rather than intro...

The kingdom of heaven is at hand: spending Advent well

“may the lord be in your heart and help you to confess your sins with true sorrow.” what prevents us from doing that? we won’t confess our s...

Fr Mark Vickers

Priest who opened Newman up to the world

fr ian turnbull ker, the leading scholar on the life and work of st john henry newman, died on 5 november. a brilliant writer and biographer...

The Catholic Herald

Catholic Herefordshire

unlike its neighbours of shropshire to the north and worcestershire to the east, herefordshire was not richly endowed with monastic establis...

The pleasures of dissonant reading

i sat on a mower in the middle of a two-acre field. paths of light and dark criss-crossed the grass. bees darted in and out of the chaff. in...

Nick Ripatrazone