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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
Catholic Good Schools
September 12, 2019
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
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
With the new cardinals, the next conclave will be unlike any other
September 05, 2019
Pope Francis was on his way to make an important announcement on Sunday when something peculiar happened. For several minutes pilgrims gathered for the Angelus in St Peter’s Square waited for the normally punctual Pontiff to appear. Just as they were wondering if the engagement had been cancelled, the Pope appeared at his window overlooking
What this stone church reveals about early English Christianity
September 05, 2019
In August archaeologists excavating on the south side of St Mary and St Ethelburga’s Church in Lyminge, Kent, uncovered the stone apse (pictured) of an early Anglo-Saxon church paralleling the sanctuary of the later parish church. The clue that an older building might lie beneath the medieval church was already hiding in plain sight, in
A beginner’s guide to the works of John Henry Newman
September 05, 2019
Even by Victorian standards, John Henry Cardinal Newman was a prolific writer. He wrote and published in many genres, from the controversial to the pastoral; from fiction and poetry to historical sketches and educational theory; from doctrinal apologetics to the defence of religious faith as reasonable. During his lifetime and throughout the decades since his
Letters: The case for canonising ‘the saint of mass media’
September 05, 2019
The case for canonising ‘St Mugg’ SIR – With the apparent demise of the Cause of GK Chesterton (Week in Review, August 9) is it not time to look at Malcolm Muggeridge as a Servant of God? Muggeridge (1903-1990) was as good a writer as Chesterton and as a Christian communicator and activist more accomplished.
How to… Observe Ember Days
September 05, 2019
The Ember Days are four sets of three seasonal days of prayer, fasting and abstinence. They fall equidistant in the cycle of the year and each of them contains a Wednesday, Friday and a Saturday of the same week. On these days, Catholics traditionally fast as they would on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, except
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September 05, 2019
Mass readings
September 05, 2019
Ordinary Form Divine Office Week III Sunday, September 8: 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Wis 9:13-18B; Ps 90; Phmn 9-10, 12-17; Lk 14:25-33 Monday, September 9: Weekday in Ordinary Time or St Peter Claver Col 1:24-2:3; Ps 62; Lk 6:6-11 Tuesday, September 10: Weekday in Ordinary Time Col 2:6-15; Ps 145; Lk 6:12-19 Wednesday, September
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