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August 02, 2023
Pope offers comfort to Portuguese church facing secularisation in aftermath of abuse scandal
August 02, 2023
LISBON – In the wake of a devastating clerical sexual abuse scandal in a country already buffeted by secularisation and increasing pluralism, Pope Francis at the end of his first day in Portugal offered words of comfort, urging bishops not to be overcome by discouragement. Referring to the Gospel passage in which Jesus tells Peter
En Vacances en Normandie
August 02, 2023
The region has a wealth of former monastic buildings, some in ruins but some whose churches still survive. The history of the Duchy of Norm-andy is ineluctably entwined with England’s. The Viking Rollo became Duke of Normandy in 911 by force of arms under the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte. His descendant William became King of England
Feast and fast: an August meal
August 02, 2023
August – the month of Our Blessed Lady’s Assumption, but also the month of les grandes vacances! So here is an idea recently tested in that curious phenomenon, the not over-equipped self-catering kitchen, explains Sam Marsden Chicken with bread & tomato salad Good stale bread eg ciabatta 500g tomatoes; various colours Chicken pieces; roughly 3
Saved by the Bible
August 02, 2023
A royal visit to a bookbindery, whose fortunes have been turned around. June 27 was a momentous day for a small bookbinding factory on an  industrial estate on Canvey Island in Essex. Canvey Island is a reclaimed island in the Thames Estuary and seems a gentler, slower world, with its 1950s-style amusement arcades, funfair and
Painted Love in Bath, Somerset
August 02, 2023
The marriage portraits at an exhibition in Bath not only capture a likeness, but contain much symbolism, says Katherine Cole. Walk through the door of this sumptuous exhibition at the Holburne Museum in Bath and you will be greeted by Jakob Fugger and his young bride. Fugger was an extremely wealthy German merchant of Augsburg,
Gwen John gives room for reflection
August 02, 2023
Gwen John comes into her own at this excellent show at Pallant House, finds Gertrude Clark. Gwen John is invariably – and inevitably – described as the sister of Augustus John, but the curator of Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris, Alicia Foster (who wrote about her in last month’s issue), is
The Miracle Club: reviewed by Julia Hamilton
August 02, 2023
Julia Hamilton finds this film set in 1960s Ireland baffling and dissatisfying. Reconciliation is a tough gig, is the message of The Miracle Club (directed by Thaddeus O’Sullivan), set in 1960s Ireland, dramatising the hard road to reconciliation that four Irish working-class women from the  same village embark on during a pil- grimage by bus
Summer reading at the Catholic Herald
August 02, 2023
The Herald’s guide to which books to pack when heading off for the summer. Whether they’re packing their passports or just looking forward to some down time at home, here some of the Herald’s regular and not-so-regular contributors share what they’re planning to read this summer – old favourites, new titles and almost everything in
The Glory of the Son of Man: Transfiguration is an image of Christ’s revelation to the world
August 02, 2023
The first Sunday in August is the Feast of the Transfiguration, and so our run of Ordinary Time Sun- days is interrupted, though the  Gospel is still taken from Matthew. Immediately before the passage we will read, Jesus tells his disciples “Truly I tell you, there are some standing here who will not taste death
South of the River at Southwark Cathedral
August 02, 2023
Did you know that the cathedral of the Archbishop of Southwark, who has jurisdiction over the part of Greater London which lies south of the Thames, is slightly further north than that of the Archbishop of Westminster, who has the souls of the rest? This is the sort of information that will no doubt help
The Fernández kiss of death?
August 02, 2023
This controversial appointment could lead to more headaches at the Vatican. The appointment of Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández as the new Prefect of the Dicastery for  the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) has caused considerable consternation in Rome and abroad.  In certain quarters, this centres around his alleged departures from Catholic orthodoxy. More popularly, however,
Entropy may not be such a bad thing
August 02, 2023
We all have order and disorder in our lives – and in the universe. Back in March, I gave my room a good  spring clean. Since then, disorder has gradually set in, and so now my room is as messy as ever. But from a theoretical physics point of view, there is a natural explanation
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