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✣ highlights from the week online disillusionment in the voting booth fr ed tomlinson found election day a gloomy experience. “i cannot reme...

Queen receives new apostolic nuncio to Britain

the queen received the new apostolic nuncio last week as he began his tenure in britain. the vatican appointed archbishop edward joseph adam...

Soviet-era martyr to be beatified

a lithuanian archbishop who was murdered with a lethal injection after 16 years in prisons and labour camps will become the first catholic m...

Mass helps me be a better mother

my daughter is nine years old and we are preparing for her first holy communion. as a result, we have become more regular churchgoers than i...

‘We’re not used to cardinals here’

last time i met bishop anders arborelius, we were toasting the canonisation of mother elisabeth hesselblad, the bridgetine nun who brought t...

Karl Gustel Wärnberg

Fr Raymond de Souza: The bishop who fought totalitarians

the recent death of cardinal lubomyr husar of kiev, and the forthcoming beatification of archbishop teofilius matulionis, the first lithuani...

Fr Raymond de Souza

Theatre: Give this bonkers Cold War Woyzeck a miss

georg büchner wrote woyzeck in 1837, the year he died, aged 23. there was no definitive text, just fragments of paper. it wasn’t performed f...

Spiritual books round up

the roman catacombs by fr james spencer northcote, sophia institute press, £12 this book, first published in 1877 by an early member of the ...

Francis Phillips

Omnium Gatherum

each year, stretching back to the middle ages, on the thursday following trinity sunday we joyfully honour the eucharistic lord with masses,...

Fr John Zuhlsdorf