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A schism in the US? What Pope Francis really thinks

September 19, 2019

It all began with a book. On the papal plane to Africa, the French journalist Nicolas Senèze gave the Holy Father a copy of his latest work. There was nothing unusual about that. Vatican-accredited media personnel – or Vamps – often present the Pope with their new books when he greets them at the start

Britain will be judged by the way it treats Tafida

September 19, 2019

Last week the High Court heard the tragic case of Tafida Raqeeb, now aged five, who suffered a devastating intracranial bleed on February 9 of this year. She sustained widespread brain damage but is not brain-stem dead and is now on long-term ventilatory support. The doctors at Royal London Hospital wish to discontinue ventilation in

Letters: Do English Catholics still cherish Our Lady?

September 19, 2019

SIR – Nowadays one rarely sees Saturday Masses of Our Lady in parishes. Masses celebrated on Saturday are mostly vigils of the Sunday, and even genuine Saturday Masses are usually kept as ferias, the commemoration of Our Lady now being an optional memorial. I count no regular Saturday Masses of Our Lady in the entire

How to… Pray the Newman novena

September 19, 2019

Among the preparations for the forthcoming canonisation of Blessed John Henry Newman on October 13 is a special novena, or nine days of prayer. The Birmingham Oratory, which is organising the event, has described the novena as “a time of special grace for us to join together and form links in a great chain of

Mass readings

September 19, 2019

Ordinary Form Divine Office Week I Sunday, September 22: 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Am 8:4-7; Ps 113; 1 Tm 2:1-8; Lk 16:1-13 Monday, September 23: St Pio of Pietrelcina Ezr 1:1-6; Ps 126; Lk 8:16-18 Tuesday, September 24: Our Lady of Walsingham (England); Weekday in Ordinary Time Ezr 6:7-8, 12B, 14-20; Ps 122; Lk 8:19-21

How to … Become a cardinal

September 12, 2019

These days, the prospects of becoming a cardinal are no longer increased by being a nephew of a reigning pope or by belonging to an illustrious and noble Italian family. Yet it is still no easy office to acquire. Cardinals are mostly drawn from the archbishops of major metropolitan sees, usually within capital cities. The

Catholic Good Schools

September 12, 2019

Editor’s letter

September 12, 2019

While researching our schools supplement I spoke to a gentleman who, despite not being a Catholic himself, had chosen to send his children to Downside because he liked the idea of them being brought up in a Catholic environment, where kindness, hard work and contemplation were valued above all else. In this first edition of

We’re in danger of breeding a generation of namby-pambies

September 12, 2019

“The little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom,” says John Proctor as fear and vengeance stalk the village of Salem in The Crucible. This is an idea that often haunts me in my life as a school teacher in rural Somerset. Not so much in reference to any particular class or child

What role should the clergy play in a Catholic education?

September 12, 2019

In David Lodge’s 2001 novel Thinks, the protagonist Helen Reed muses on her Catholic schooling: “I’m deeply grateful that I had a Catholic education … and in retrospect I feel only nostalgic affection for the nuns who taught me even though most of them were more or less deranged by superstition and sexual repression, which

Leading Catholic school headmaster: ‘Boys will turn off if you patronise them’

September 12, 2019

Every year the London Oratory School, a boys’ academy which takes girls at sixth form, has 1,000 applicants from across London for the 160 places available. Places are so coveted, in fact, that one hopeful parent urged us not to run this article lest the publicity raised the competition. It hardly needs mentioning that the

Africa is a rising force, but Rome has yet to catch up

September 12, 2019

As Pope Francis celebrated Mass on Sunday he looked out on a congregation of up to a million people. Many of them had slept overnight on the red soil of a field on the outskirts of Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar. They had braved the chill of the Southern Hemisphere’s winter for a chance to

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