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Let them finally have a Christian burial: Captain Robert Nairac and last of the ‘Disappeared’ from Northern Ireland’s Troubles
April 08, 2024
Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh has reiterated his ongoing call for action to finally retrieve the remains of Northern Ireland’s last few “Disappeared”: four men killed by the IRA during the Troubles, whose bodies have never been found. The Catholic Church in Northern Ireland recalls these men each year at a special Mass, which is
How doubting Thomas can inspire those of us who endure a ‘traumatised faith’
April 08, 2024
“Unless I see the holes that the nails made in his hands and can put my finger into the holes they made, and unless I can put my hand into his side, I refuse to believe.” (John 20:25) Our lectionary’s translation of this verse from the Gospel of the second Sunday of Easter removes an
A Father’s Heart: Sometimes Catholic schools need reminding about being Catholic…
April 07, 2024
One of the Herald’s chaplains answers your questions We were delighted when our son Tom was offered a place at our local Catholic academy school. It is over-subscribed, with an excellent academic reputation. However, we are surprised that it seems far less Catholic than his primary school. Mass and prayers don’t seem to feature. Tom
Pilgrimage Standoff: Assisi or Santiago de Compostela – it’s a tough call
April 07, 2024
Can a person commit pilgrimage “adultery”? In all the planning leading up to taking a group of Catholic Herald pilgrims along a portion of the Via di Francesco – the Way of St Francis – to Assisi in Italy, I felt a strange sense of unease about being engaged in a form of betrayal. For
St John Paul II and the Divine Mercy of God
April 07, 2024
THE CHURCH PROCLAIMS the truth of God’s mercy revealed in the crucified and risen Christ, and she professes it in various ways. Furthermore, she seeks to practice mercy towards people through people, and she sees in this an indispensable condition for solicitude for a better and “more human” world, today and tomorrow. However, at no
The Pope and the Press: papal interviews have always been a risky business
April 07, 2024
ROME – Your starter for ten: Which of the following modern pontiffs gave a high-profile interview to a journalist on extremely sensitive subjects, the result of which was controversy inside and outside the Catholic Church, compelling Vatican officials and spokespersons to issue “clarifications” which did relatively little to calm the waters? The correct answer, as
Keys of the Kingdom: in Peter’s faltering journey to sainthood there is hope for us all
April 07, 2024
Among the many wonderful paradoxes of Catholic faith, practice and history is that now-canonised saints did not always act so saintly. From St Monica’s alcoholism to St Athanasius’s irascibility to St Jerome’s chronic ill-temper, the tradition is replete with examples of inconstancy. It is perhaps not an accident that the earliest example of this phenomenon
‘Masters of Imitation’: The Sixteen’s 2024 Choral Pilgrimage does not disappoint
April 06, 2024
The Sixteen are on the road again, with their annual Choral Pilgrimage. Last year the theme encompassed the 400th anniversary of the death of William Byrd, that covert (or not-so-covert) Catholic who flourished in the reign of Elizabeth I and even under her patronage. I wonder what her chief minister, William Cecil – who probably
On the Record: Music for Easter, Divine Mercy Sunday, and the Annunciation
April 06, 2024
The cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris is due to reopen later in the year, painstakingly restored following the devastating fire five years ago this month. Amazingly, the celebrated Cavaillé-Coll organ survived with only minor damage. In the French liturgical tradition, much of the music for the Mass is improvised at the organ, often using the
Taiwan thanks Pope for ‘spiritual closeness’ in aftermath of deadly earthquake
April 06, 2024
ROME – After a massive earthquake shook Taiwan this week, leaving at least 10 people dead, the island’s Ambassador to the Holy See has thanked the world for its solidarity, and Pope Francis specifically for his spiritual closeness. “Right after the earthquake struck, the Taiwan government immediately activated the Central Emergency Operations Center, and launched
Catholic Relief Services in Holy Land ‘extremely concerned’ after deaths of aid workers in Israeli air strike
April 06, 2024
Mourners gather around the body of Palestinian Issam Abu Taha, a worker from the World Central Kitchen (WCK), who was killed in an Israeli airstrike along with other workers in the southern Gaza Strip on April 2, 2024. Getty Images. NEW YORK – In light of the deaths of seven World Central Kitchen workers in
New book on Venice could say more on religion’s role in the ‘impossible’ city 
April 06, 2024
Venice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City Denis Romano  Oxford University Press, £31.99, 904 pages The Renaissance scholar Francesco Sansovino (1521-1586) called Venice, and its watery setting, “the impossible in the impossible”. Situated in a tidal lagoon and built largely on artificial islands, the sheer improbability of magnificent churches and shimmering palaces emerging from
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