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Q&A with John Paget-Tomlinson of Leweston School
August 31, 2023
How often do you offer Mass, Benediction, etc, and where? Do pupils attend Confession? Mass for the whole school takes place on Wednesday morning in the School Chapel. Boarders’ Mass takes place once a week at St Aldhelms in Sherborne (we have moved this  because we want to create a sense of comm-unity with the
Q&A with Adam Hall of the Cardinal Pole School
August 31, 2023
What did you do prior to becoming headmaster of Cardinal Pole Catholic School? I started my career in 2007 teaching Religious Studies, before becoming Head of RE at the Ursuline Academy Ilford in 2009. In 2014 I moved to Cardinal Pole as an assistant headteacher, before becoming deputy headteacher two years later. I was appointed
Obituary: Quentin de la Bédoyère, former Catholic Herald columnist
August 30, 2023
Quentin de la Bédoyère, 1934-2023 Quentin de la Bédoyère died on 1 August, at the age of 88. A former Catholic Herald columnist, he used to relate how, when he was a teenaged second lieutenant on national service in Austria in the early 1950s, illiterate servicemen in his transport regiment would ask him to read
Bishops back Ghana’s efforts to resist Western imposition of sexual rights agenda
August 26, 2023
Faith leaders support African nation’s right to preserve cultural and religious values in face of threats to international funding, reports Ngala Killian Chimtom for Crux YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon – Religious leaders in Ghana, including the Catholic bishops, have issued a strongly-worded statement saying the West African nation will not compromise its values to satisfy foreign investors
Mediterranean mission
August 25, 2023
The Holy Father is nothing if not peripatetic. Three weeks after the papal visit to Mongolia, he faces a very different challenge with a visit to Marseilles – the first pope to do so since Clement VII in rather less happy circumstances in 1533. It is part of his continuing “Mediterranean meetings”, whereby he has
No Room for Christ at the Inn
August 25, 2023
St Paul told the Corinthians: “Whether you eat or drink, or whatsoever else you do, do all to the glory of God.” It’s a sentiment that underlies the moment, usually under a minute or two, when, across the British establishment, in Oxbridge colleges, Inns of Court and some of the more old-fashioned guilds (and outside
Help the youth spread the Word
August 25, 2023
The Holy Spirit sometimes works in mysterious ways, but during World Youth Day in Lisbon the fruits of the Spirit were manifest in cheerfulness, mutual respect, joyful mingling of nationalities and reverence for the Sacraments as 1.5 million young people gathered for a celebration of the Catholic faith. The story of the Church in Europe
Christians in Burkina Faso ‘do not know if they will survive another day’
August 24, 2023
Attacks against Christians in Burkina Faso are becoming more common and many people do not know if they will survive for another day, according to a local missionary. Many Christians have seen their loved ones “beheaded, raped or reduced to sexual slavery”, Father Pierre Rouamba, Prior General of the Missionary Brothers of the Countryside told
Ark of the Covenant: keeping Our Lady’s Assumption with Benedict XVI
August 14, 2023
WE CELEBRATE TODAY one of the oldest and best loved of the feasts dedicated to Mary Most Holy: the feast of her Assumption into the glory of Heaven in body and soul, in other words in the whole of her human existence, in the integrity of her person. Thus we have been given the grace
Indian Church appeals for end of ‘ethnic cleansing’ of Christian tribes
August 14, 2023
An archbishop in north-east India, who has seen his diocese at the centre of a wave of deadly attacks, has issued an urgent appeal for prayers “to transform the minds of the people who are led by hatred and religious violence”. In a letter to Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Archbishop Dominic Lumon
‘Truly you are the Son of God’: Pope Francis on today’s Gospel reading
August 13, 2023
Today the Gospel passage (Mt 14:22-33) describes the episode about Jesus who, after praying all night on the shore of the Lake of Galilee, makes his way towards his disciples’ boat, walking on the water. The boat is in the middle of the lake, halted by a strong wind blowing against it. When they see
Summer reading at the Catholic Herald
August 02, 2023
The Herald’s guide to which books to pack when heading off for the summer. Whether they’re packing their passports or just looking forward to some down time at home, here some of the Herald’s regular and not-so-regular contributors share what they’re planning to read this summer – old favourites, new titles and almost everything in
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