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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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Karl Gustel Wärnberg
Laura Perrins
Karl Gustel Wärnberg
Bach’s Mass in B Minor highlights how the great composer wove a ‘potent, steadfast faith’ into his music
May 20, 2024
The “K” of the first Kyrie shot straight down the middle of Yale University’s impressive Woolsey Hall like a burning arrow; a foretaste of the drama to come. At the end of last month the Yale Schola Cantorum was joined by the New York-based period instrument ensemble called Julliard415 for a performance of the Mass
Challenging liberal Christianity: Jesus gave very clear warnings about losing ‘saltiness’
May 20, 2024
Christians are supposed to be unpopular. They are supposed to be out of touch with contemporary society (whether that means first-century Palestine, early medieval Europe, 19th-century Africa or 21st-century China). Non-believers finding Christianity offensive or alienating is a feature, not a bug. If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first, Jesus says
Meeting between Cardinal Ambongo and Congo’s president eases tensions in Africa’s largest Catholic country
May 20, 2024
Amid what threatened to become a serious Church v. State clash in Africa’s largest Catholic country, the cardinal threatened with prosecution for sedition in the Democratic Republic of Congo met on 16 May with the country’s president and afterward attributed the previous tensions to “misunderstandings”. “There has been more misunderstanding than a real problem,” said
Pope discusses ‘globalisation of indifference’ during famous US television news show
May 20, 2024
The renowned US television show 60 Minutes featured an interview with Pope Francis on Sunday night. The prime-time program showed segments from an interview that the Pope did with CBS News (the abbreviation of Columbia Broadcasting System), his first one-to-one interview with a US TV network, in which Pope Francis spoke about immigration, surrogacy and
Heavenly counsellor: How the Holy Spirit’s whispering truth defends us
May 20, 2024
“When the Advocate comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who issues from the Father, he will be my witness.” (John 15:26) In John’s Gospel, Jesus four times calls the Holy Spirit the “Paraclete”, a name which first means “Advocate”, or even “Defence Lawyer”, but can also be
Israel objects to Catholic ‘moral blindness’ to Hamas terror
May 19, 2024
ROME – Just as Israel continues to deploy its military “hard power” on the Gaza strip, defying international pressure to back down, so too it shows no signs of halting its “soft power” campaign either. On the contrary, Israel is pursuing a relentless war of words against any party it believes guilty of false moral
Here’s to Harrison Butker, a winner with the guts to tell the truth
May 18, 2024
Harrison Butker is a winner. Literally, in the sense that on 11 February 2024, the young American football player won his NFL team, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Super Bowl. In doing so he also broke the 30-year-old record for the longest field goal in the competition’s history. But Harrison Butker is a winner in
Fourth priest kidnapped in Nigeria in just five months
May 18, 2024
Extremists have captured another Catholic priest in Nigeria, bringing the number of clerics kidnapped in the country this year to four.The gunmen who took Fr Basil Gbuzuo have not contacted the Church, according to a statement by Onitsha Archdiocese sent to Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN).Fr Prudentius Aroh, chancellor of the
Filipino bishop decries divorce reforms as a blow to family and society
May 18, 2024
As the Philippines moved closer to legalising divorce , a leading Catholic bishop has warned politicians that “divorce weakens the fabric of society.” The House of Representatives of the Philippines this week approved House Bill 9349, which would legalise absolute divorce in the predominantly Catholic Asian country. The Philippines is the world’s only country without
Vatican publishes new norms for vetting private revelations
May 17, 2024
ROME – The Vatican today rolled out a new expedited procedure for vetting alleged Marian apparitions or other spiritual phenomenon, ruling that they will no longer deemed supernatural, but simply that nothing stands in the way of encouraging devotion. In an introductory presentation of the new norms, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery
Canadian archbishop fights for right of church hospice to refuse euthanasia
May 17, 2024
No-one ever slides up a slippery slope. They only ever go down. Euthanasia invariably involves a descent that is not so much like skidding to the foot of a steep hill as falling from a cliff. In no country in the world has this been quite as dramatic as in Canada. The nation permitted euthanasia
The genius of old age: Michelangelo’s later works at the British Museum
May 17, 2024
The essential aspect of this exhibition is in the title: Michelangelo, the last decades. How does genius age? Michelangelo lived to a great age for his time, dying just shy of his 89th birthday. This show deals with his last three decades, give or take a few years. He was summoned just before his 60th birthday to
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