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FROM THE ARCHIVES: Tolkien’s 1945 letter to the Catholic Herald on ‘the Name of Coventry’
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FROM THE ARCHIVES: Tolkien’s 1945 letter to the Catholic Herald on ‘the Name of Coventry’
May 11, 2024
In early 1945, a contributor to the Catholic Herald suggested that the city of Coventry could be named for a medieval Catholic religious house. Professor J. R. R. Tolkien, reading this, and having done his research, wrote in to correct the record and share his thoughts on Catholicism’s place in the study of Anglo-Saxon etymology
On Pilgrimage With: Anita Boniface, writer and chaplaincy volunteer
May 11, 2024
Where would you go? A place I’d like to revisit on pilgrimage is Aylesford Priory in Kent. I often went there as a child and young adult with my family and our beloved neighbours Cis and Arthur. Visiting Aylesford planted in me a fondness for church and the Catholic faith at a young age. It’s
Lisbon: Why you should visit this critical trading and spiritual link between Old Catholic Europe, Asia and the New World
May 11, 2024
With five Portuguese cardinals, and at least one future papabile – Cardinal Américo Aguiar, who was responsible for World Youth Day 2023, is still only 50 – Lisbon has become a new spiritual axis of the world, an outward-facing port city that has become something of a focus for Pope Francis’s progressive spiritual mission. In
Abortion vote on 15 May: ‘A time to raise our voices and not lose heart’
May 11, 2024
Bishops rarely comment on Bills in Parliament. Lay Christians, informed by their faith, freely and sincerely adopt different political views and propose different solutions to the practical problems and great challenges of our time. Yet, when the bishops voice “deep alarm” about a legislative measure in Parliament it is a moment when the faithful, and
Priest plunges school into darkness to save children from marauding gunmen
May 10, 2024
The quick thinking of a headteacher helped save the lives of sleeping students after armed extremists stormed a secondary school in Nigeria’s Middle Belt. Fr Emmanuel Ogwuche, principal at Fr Angus Frazer Memorial High School in Makurdi, promptly switched off all the lights in the building after hearing gunshots outside, preventing the terrorists from finding
Pope decries ‘cowardly’ attack on Congo refugee camp
May 10, 2024
YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – Pope Francis has condemned a “cowardly attack” on a refugee camp in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The Mugunga camp is home to around 27,000 internally displaced people. The Congolese military accused the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels of carrying out the attack. At least 18 people were killed,
Diocese was justified in firing gay teacher, rules federal appeals court
May 09, 2024
NEW YORK – In a reversal of a 2021 decision, a federal appeals court has ruled that a Catholic school in the Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina, was justified in firing a substitute teacher over his same-sex relationship. Lonnie Billard, the teacher, sued Charlotte Catholic High School and the Diocese of Charlotte in 2017 for
Archbishop Wilson leads over 10,000 school children in a rosary
May 09, 2024
Over 90 Catholic schools across South London and Kent took part in a rosary led by Archbishop John Wilson, as part of the Archdiocese of Southwark’s campaign to encourage young people to pray.  Archbishop John led the rosary from Notre Dame Secondary School in Southwark, where he was joined by children from St George’s Cathedral Catholic
Bishop Sherrington ‘deeply alarmed’ by proposed amendments on abortion
May 09, 2024
LEICESTER, United Kingdom – Bishop John Sherrington, who heads the bishops’ conference on life issues, is concerned that proposed amendments in the British Parliament will liberalise the country’s abortion laws. Four amendments have been submitted to the Criminal Justice Bill which relate to the protection of unborn babies and will be debated on May 15.
‘I felt out of place praying at the tomb of a saint’: A pilgrim finds Durham Cathedral inhospitable as it prepares for a pop concert
May 09, 2024
I have always been fascinated with British history. As a child, the monarchs, the Anglo-Saxons, the Vikings, Celts and Romans all intrigued me. I was also fascinated by Christianity. Being raised in a denomination with a comparatively short history, I was keen to learn about great Christian figures beyond my Pentecostal upbringing. So when I
On the Record: Ascension, Pentecost and Trinity Sunday
May 09, 2024
An Ascension Day procession in Bavaria If you are near Oxford, make haste to the Bodleian Library, where you will find on display the autograph of Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein, BWV 128, a cantata for Ascension by JS Bach. It is one of only four Bach manuscripts in the UK, and amongst the best-preserved in
Feast of Our Lady of Pompeii and anniversary of foundational stone laid at famous shrine
May 08, 2024
Today is the feast of Our Lady of Pompeii, one of the most recent titles bestowed on the Virgin Mary. May 8 also commemorates the anniversary of the laying of the foundational stone in 1876 for a church in Pompeii, dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary, that would become a famous pilgrimage site. On
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