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September 29, 2020

An indomitable spirit: Artemisia at the National Gallery

September 29, 2020

It’s the stuff of feminist polemic: what might female painters have achieved in history if they only had had the opportunities that men did? Artemisia Gentileschi shows what one woman achieved: she was not the only notable female painter in Italy in the seventeenth century but she was valued highly in her own lifetime in

Vatican proposes renewal of agreement with China on bishops’ appointments

September 29, 2020

The Vatican has proposed to the Chinese government that they extend an agreement signed in 2018

Learning about Pope John Paul I’s life will help dispel myths, niece says

September 29, 2020

Conspiracy theories and dark intrigue about Pope John Paul I's untimely death just one month after his election should be set aside and his life and legacy made more widely known, his niece has said.

Pope Francis names leading physicist to pontifical academy

September 29, 2020

Fabiola Gianotti is director-general of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)

Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination gives spotlight to Notre Dame Law School

September 29, 2020

If Judge Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed to the Supreme Court, she will be the first Notre Dame Law School graduate to sit on the bench of the nation’s highest court and the only sitting justice with a law degree not from Harvard or Yale

Chaldean Cathedral defaced with swastikas and other graffiti

September 29, 2020

"Pray for the criminals who did this"

San Francisco warned ‘draconian’ limits on worship may violate US Constitution

September 29, 2020

"San Francisco’s treatment of places of worship raises serious concerns about religious freedom," Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband said

AN Wilson’s diary: Prince Charles’s architecture, Covid and the power of the old

September 29, 2020

The pastiche-Georgian architecture patronised by the Prince of Wales in such little townships as Poundbury, just outside Dorchester, attracted much mockery – some of it from my pen. Toytown, I thought. Where’s the exuberant confidence of real neo-Georgians such as Lutyens who could adapt, without copy-catting, the triumphs of 18th-century design? Then again, ask yourself

Missionaries released unharmed after being held captive for 24 days

September 29, 2020

Two Catholic missionary sisters held for over three weeks by Islamic State-affiliated rebels in Mozambique were freed on September 6. The Sisters of St Joseph of Chambéry announced with “deep gratitude” that two Brazilian members of their order, Sr Maria Inez Leite Ramos and Sr Eliane Costa Santana, were released without harm 24 days after

Could our annual pilgrimage work online? Only up to a point

September 29, 2020

What exactly are we losing as our lives move increasingly online? Few of us will be sorry to forgo long commutes, and we will all have our own experiences of online work meetings, email collaboration, and teaching by video-link. As for large-scale devotional events, the Latin Mass Society, like other Catholic organisations, had to learn

America’s problems go even deeper than this grim election

September 29, 2020

Watching the disintegration of American polity from an ocean-and-a-half away is excruciating. The metaphors are all hackneyed. Not one of them will do. One thing is certain, however: we are way past watching milk spill, past dumpster fires, past train wrecks – and we are fast approaching the “Simpsons parody of a Bosch painting” kind

‘People are Chestertonian without realising it’: 46 years of the Chesterton Review

September 29, 2020

Fr Ian Boyd, CSB, founded the Chesterton Review in 1974 and led the magazine for nearly a half century, during which the journal established a reputation for academic and literary excellence that make it a model for critical endeavour. Heading into retirement, Fr Boyd spoke with the Catholic Herald about how the landscape has changed