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July 25, 2019

Ordinary Form Divine Office Week I Sunday, July 28: 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time Gn 18:20-32; Ps 138; Col 2:12-14; Lk 11:1-13 Monday, July 29: St Martha Ex 32:15-24, 30-34; Ps 106; Jn 11:19-27 Tuesday, July 30: Weekday in Ordinary Time or St Peter Chrysologus Ex 33:7-11; 34:5B-9, 28; Ps 103; Mt 13:36-43 Wednesday, July 31: St Ignatius

How to … Practice Ignatian discernment

July 25, 2019

St Ignatius of Loyola, whose feast is celebrated by the Catholic Church on July 31, is famous principally for founding the Society of Jesus, but his Spiritual Exercises are considered among his greatest gifts to Western Christianity. Ignatian methods of prayer, observed Pope Pius XI a century ago, “lead a man by the safe paths

July 19, 2019

July 18, 2019

Burma, not Belgium, is the future of the Church

July 18, 2019

Which country produces the most priests relative to the size of its Catholic population? Is it Brazil, the powerhouse of Latin American Catholicism? Perhaps the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with its fast-growing Church? Or maybe the steadfastly Catholic Philippines? The answer is: none of these. The nation supplying the most priests per Catholic in

How to… Use holy medals

July 18, 2019

There is a theory that the use of holy medals in the Catholic Church might have originated from pagan practices, when missionaries Christianised the amulets which were often believed to confer protection upon the wearer. Today there is no suggestion that a holy medal is a sort of charm. Instead it is a “sacramental”, listed

Mass readings

July 18, 2019

Ordinary Form Divine Office Week IV Sunday, July 21: 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time Gn 18:1-10A; Ps 15; Col 1:24-28; Lk 10:38-42 Monday, July 22: St Mary Magdalene Sgs 3:1-4B or 2 Cor 5:14-17; Ps 63; Jn 20:1-2, 11-18 Tuesday, July 23: St Bridget (Eu); Ss Philip Evans and John Lloyd (opt mem; W); Weekday in Ordinary Time (US)

Letters & emails

July 18, 2019

A weakened China will seek scapegoats SIR – The leading article in your July 5 issue emphasises something that is too often overlooked or downplayed in discussions of China in both the secular and religious press. That is that, while it may have embraced Western capitalism, it is ruled by the Communist Party, with an avowed

Mass readings

July 11, 2019

Ordinary Form Divine Office Week III Sunday, July 14: 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time Dt 30:10-14; Ps 69; Col 1:15-20; Lk 10:25-37 Monday, July 15: St Bonaventure Ex 1:8-14, 22; Ps 124; Mt 10:34-11:1 Tuesday, July 16: Weekday in Ordinary Time or Our Lady of Mount Carmel Ex 2:1-15A; Ps 69; Mt 11:20-24 Wednesday, July 17: Weekday in Ordinary Time

How to… join the papal nobility

July 11, 2019

In spite of a succession of reforms in the modern era, including the Second Vatican Council, the Catholic Church has never abolished the papal nobility: those aristocratic titles formerly occupied by the likes of the Borgias, the Medici, the Orsini, the Pamphili and the Borghese. St Paul VI was the last pontiff to address the

Letters & emails

July 11, 2019

The Newman Cause’s forgotten heroes SIR – The debt of gratitude owed to Fr Gregory Winterton Cong Orat and Mgr Dr Francis Davis in their distinguished furtherance of the Cause of Cardinal Newman cannot be disputed (Letter, July 5). However, their achievements over several decades were often built on the capabilities of their colleagues, especially Gerard Tracy,

What’s stopping Pope Francis going to Moscow?

July 11, 2019

There is one man who always keeps the Holy Father waiting. Three times in a row now he has arrived conspicuously late for a private audience at the Vatican, in breach of diplomatic protocol. When he first visited Pope Francis in 2013, he was 50 minutes late. On his second visit, it was a full

July 12, 2019

July 11, 2019

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