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June 03, 2023
June 03, 2023
Jamie MacGuire, Managing Editor US Catholic Herald. Where would you go? Santiago de Compostela, the city of my namesake, St James. Tradition says the apostle preached in northern Spain and, after his martyrdom in Jerusalem by  Herod, his remains were returned by  boat there to Galicia, where Europe’s largest pilgrimage route grew up over  the
June 03, 2023
A doughty episcopal reformer. Born in Essex on May 27, 1937, Hugh Christopher Budd was educated by the Salesians at Chertsey before entering the junior seminary at Cotton College. From there he progressed to St Thomas’s Seminary, Grove Park, before completing his studies at the Venerable English College in Rome. He was ordained in July
June 03, 2023
Lunch at the Palazzo Taverna On April 19, a luncheon was hosted for the Herald at the Palazzo Taverna on Via di Monte Giordano in Rome by Tom Faure-Romanelli and his wife Ilaria. The guest of honour was Christopher Trott, the British ambassador to the Holy See. Other guests included Amanda Bowman, chair of the
June 03, 2023
Linking Solomon to Stonehenge, the First Book of Kings is embedded in British culture, says Rosemary Hill. The First Book of Kings is not as poetic as Song of Songs, and I love the peculiarly feminine story in Ruth, of the love between mother- and daughter-in-law, but Kings I is the book that I have
June 03, 2023
Fr Pius Collins OPraem reflects on Isaiah 61 on the 55th anniversary of the Abortion Act coming into force. Since the passage of the Abortion Act in 1967 countless lives have been ended, countless because the statistics don’t include the effect of abortifacient drugs and devices. This means that modern Britain is the most barbaric
June 03, 2023
Henry III: Reform, Rebellion  and Civil War 1258-1272 David Carpenter  Yale University Press, £25, 576 pages Henry III (1207-1272) was, at 56 years, England’s longest reigning Catholic monarch, and (after Edward the Confessor) its most devout. His tenure bequeathed us Westminster Abbey as we know it, parliament in a recognisable form and the beginnings of
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