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November 08, 2018

Asia Bibi: Pakistan’s test case

November 08, 2018

As extremists take to the streets, the Asia Bibi saga highlights a debate over the country's future

Even amid attempts at revolution, Rome remains the same

November 08, 2018

Visiting the Eternal City feels like a kind of homecoming

Did anti-Catholicism increase First World War casualties?

November 08, 2018

Senior commanders were suspicious of the Church's peace efforts, and of Catholic soldiers

Cartoon: by Kipper Williams

November 08, 2018

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November 08, 2018

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Prize crossword 0567

November 08, 2018

Cryptic across 5 Prophetic, a typical cop turns bad (11) 7 No end to odd obstruction (4) 8 Tax collector’s dad, a Greek character, makes Brussels sweat in the beginning (8) 9 Email circulating about quiet son of Abraham (7) 11 With Scot dropped, McCoist’s upset, but he doesn’t complain (5) 13 Turkish type of

Mass readings

November 08, 2018

Ordinary Form Divine Office Week IV Sunday, November 11: The 32nd Sunday of the Year 1 Kgs 17:10-16; Ps 146; Heb 9:24-28; Mk 12:38-44 Monday, November 12: St Josapha Ti 1:1-9; Ps 24; Lk 17:1-6 Tuesday, November 13: Weekday in Ordinary Time Ti 2:1-8, 11-14; Ps 37; Lk 17:7-10 Wednesday, November 14: Weekday in Ordinary

Omnium Gatherum

November 08, 2018

The terrible First World War ended at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month, 1918. This Sunday marks the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day. The guns weren’t silent for long, but at least they stopped for a while. Eagerly lain down, reluctantly taken up again. Speaking of reluctance, this Remembrance Sunday is also

Word this week

November 08, 2018

The 32nd Sunday of the year 1 Kgs 17:10-16; Heb 9:24-28; Mk 12:38-44 (Year B) “It is the Lord who keeps faith forever. It is he who gives bread to the hungry; the Lord, who sets prisoners free.” The responsorial psalm rejoices in the God whose graciousness gives bread to the hungry, and whose mercy

A visionary defence of married love

November 08, 2018

Charlie Hegarty hails a brave minority voice from 1968 The Encyclical Humanae Vitae By Dietrich von Hildebrand, Hildebrand Press, 136pp, £8.99 This year marks the 50th anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae Vitae, explaining why the Church cannot change her teaching on the wrongness of artificial birth control. It is fair to say that

A military order that survived covetous kings

November 08, 2018

Piers Paul Read on how the Knights Hospitaller adjusted to the post-Crusades era The Knights Hospitaller in Great Britain By Michael Hodges, St Omer’s Press, 156pp, £20 After the conquest of Jerusalem by the First Crusade, two military orders were formed to protect the pilgrims – the Templars and the Knights of St John who,

What’s the problem with medieval mysticism?

November 08, 2018

Rebekah Lamb looks back to the days when the Virgin Mary would chastise bishops Mary and the Art of Prayer By Rachel Fulton Brown, Columbia, 656pp, £55 Steeped in scriptural, liturgical and mystical accounts of the life of the Virgin Mary, medieval devotions and writings particularly meditated on the role of Mary as persuasive intercessor,