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Bach’s Mass in B Minor highlights how the great composer wove a ‘potent, steadfast faith’ into his music
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Vatican weighs up potential Trump return in its approach to European elections
May 12, 2024
ROME – Although non-Europeans may not be paying attention – and, for that matter, a fairly wide swath of the European population itself isn’t exactly riveted either – but elections for the European Parliament loom large on June 6-9, when voters will select 720 representatives who will chart a course for the EU for the
The infernal serpent: Understanding envy may prove salutary in the end
May 12, 2024
“I don’t envy you.” When someone says that, they are implying that you will have a bad time dealing with whatever, or whoever, you’re about to encounter. It’s a discouraging remark which often comes with a note of reproach, suggesting that you shouldn’t be doing whatever it is. This is odd. If envy is a
What does it mean if we are ‘kept’ in the name of the Father?
May 12, 2024
“Holy Father, keep those you have given me true to your name, so that they may be one like us. While I was with them, I kept those you had given me true to your name” (John 17:11-12). In Sunday’s Gospel, our lectionary translation opts for a variant in the manuscript tradition, but the other
Douai Abbey: a place extolling the English Benedictine temper and charism
May 12, 2024
“A monastery is above all this: a place of spiritual power.” Pope Benedict, as ever, got to the heart of the thing when he addressed these words to Benedictine monks at Heiligenkreuz, outside Vienna. Monasteries serve all sorts of functions – repositories of tradition, places of architectural and cultural interest, sometimes social hubs. But unless they
World Communications Day and Catholic journalism’s role to ‘guide and inspire’
May 12, 2024
On the Sunday before Pentecost the Catholic Church celebrates the role of communications media and focuses on how it can best use such platforms to promote the Gospel values. World Communications Day, also know as Communications Sunday, was established by Pope Paul VI in 1967 as an annual celebration to “encourage us to reflect on
US archdiocese ‘refused to comply’ with sexual abuse investigation, Washington attorney general claims
May 11, 2024
Amid a campaign for the governorship, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced on 9 May that he has taken legal action against the Archdiocese of Seattle, alleging that it has “refused to comply” with his investigation into whether the three Washington dioceses used charitable funds to cover up allegations of child sex abuse by clergy.
Catholic Herald Institute hosts inaugural symposium to examine recent Synod in Rome
May 11, 2024
The Catholic Herald Institute hosted its inaugural symposium “The Synod: The Room Where it Happened and What Happens Next?” in New York’s Sheen Center for Thought and Culture in Greenwich Village on 18 March. The conversation, the first in the Institute’s “Conversations in the Spirit” series, was moderated by Michael La Civita, director of communications
An exorcist is needed to sort out Eurovision 2024 and Ireland’s troubled contestant
May 11, 2024
Myopia has plagued my family as far back as can be traced. The family vault holds images from the end of the 1800s of women in their forties all wearing glasses. My grandparents’ 10 children and 39 grandchildren all wear glasses. My own children wear glasses. My brother went out with a girl who dumped him once
EXCLUSIVE FROM THE ARCHIVES: Tolkien’s 1945 letter to the Catholic Herald on ‘the Name of Coventry’
May 11, 2024
In early 1945, a contributor to the Catholic Herald suggested that the city of Coventry could be named for a medieval Catholic religious house. Professor J. R. R. Tolkien, reading this, and having done his research, wrote in to correct the record and share his thoughts on Catholicism’s place in the study of Anglo-Saxon etymology
On Pilgrimage With: Anita Boniface, writer and chaplaincy volunteer
May 11, 2024
Where would you go? A place I’d like to revisit on pilgrimage is Aylesford Priory in Kent. I often went there as a child and young adult with my family and our beloved neighbours Cis and Arthur. Visiting Aylesford planted in me a fondness for church and the Catholic faith at a young age. It’s
Lisbon: Why you should visit this critical trading and spiritual link between Old Catholic Europe, Asia and the New World
May 11, 2024
With five Portuguese cardinals, and at least one future papabile – Cardinal Américo Aguiar, who was responsible for World Youth Day 2023, is still only 50 – Lisbon has become a new spiritual axis of the world, an outward-facing port city that has become something of a focus for Pope Francis’s progressive spiritual mission. In
Priest plunges school into darkness to save children from marauding gunmen
May 10, 2024
The quick thinking of a headteacher helped save the lives of sleeping students after armed extremists stormed a secondary school in Nigeria’s Middle Belt. Fr Emmanuel Ogwuche, principal at Fr Angus Frazer Memorial High School in Makurdi, promptly switched off all the lights in the building after hearing gunshots outside, preventing the terrorists from finding
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