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March 31, 2016

Cardinal Nichols (Westminster) Mon to Fri: Combatting Human Trafficking. US Visit to promote the work of the Santa Marta Group, including a session at the United Nations on Thursday, 7 April, New York, NY, USA. Archbishop Longley (Birmingham) Thu: Friends of the Holy Land Conference 2016, Lambeth Palace, 10.00pm. Fri: Archbishop’s Council Meeting, Archbishop’s House,

Prize crossword 0433

March 31, 2016

Cryptic across 1 Rod’s left in a chopper (4) 3 Joseph’s place is found in damaged Tehran A-Z (8) 9 Book comfortable-sounding passage to a Baltic port (7) 10 Chaplain of Artillery’s name escapes (5) 11 Scents of summer for one coming back after missing the middle of May (5) 12 Polynesian gown number put

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March 31, 2016

Pictures of the week

March 31, 2016

1 The Year 10 winners of the Battle of the Bands competition at Newman Catholic College in Willesden, north-west London, with the judges and sponsors. 2 Young farmer Amy Weaver recently brought two heifers to St Joseph’s College in Trent Vale, Staffordshire, for the college’s annual Lenten appeal. The “Meet the Cow” event raised more

Mass readings

March 31, 2016

Ordinary Form Divine Office Week II Sunday, April 3: Second Sunday of Easter or Divine Mercy Sunday Acts 5:12-16; Ps 118; Rev 1:9-11A, 12-13, 17-19; Jn 20:19-31 Monday, April 4: The Annunciation of the Lord Is 7:10-14; 8:10; Ps 40; Heb 10:4-10; Lk 1:26-38 Tuesday, April 5: Weekday of Easter, St Vincent Ferrer Acts 4:32-37; Ps

Fine art: Even Botticelli’s genius can’t bring hell to life

March 10, 2016

Botticelli and Treasures from the Hamilton Collection Courtauld Gallery, until May 15 In 1481 Dante and Botticelli formed a partnership made in hell, purgatory and heaven. In Botticelli’s brown-ink drawings, begun in that year, we see the traces of a Renaissance canvas in the placing of Beatrice’s sandalled foot, in the nebula of her folded

March 13 to March 19

March 10, 2016

Cardinal Nichols (Westminster) Sun: Celebration of Mass, St Bonaventure, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 6JF, 10.30am. Tue: Episcopal Visitation, 4.00pm. Wed: Meeting with Bishops’ Conference Staff, London, SW1P, 10.00am. Council of Deans, Archbishop’s House, London, SW1P, 11.00am. Travels to Rome, 4.00pm. Thu: Meetings in Rome. Fri: Archbishop’s Council Meeting, SW1P, 8.30am. Trustees Meeting, Archbishop’s House, London,

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March 03, 2016

Comments of the week

March 03, 2016

SIR – I venture to suggest that 2016 will prove to be a date as important in the history of Britain as 410 AD (the withdrawal of Roman imperial governance from Britain) and 1066. No one should underestimate the importance of the referendum on June 23. Whether we vote to stay in or to leave

The lonely papal path

March 03, 2016

Two images of Pope Francis have circulated widely on the web in recent days. In the first, the Holy Father sits alone in a row of scarlet and gold chairs in the hangar-like Paul VI Audience Hall. Behind him curial officials chat away merrily, apparently oblivious to him. The brilliant priest-blogger Fr Ray Blake says

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