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August 30, 2023
St Mary’s Academy in Warrington gives children the best of both worlds
August 30, 2023
At St Mary’s Academy in Warrington, pupils learn at school and at home. Shortly before Easter 2020, we, like everybody else, found ourselves locked down with enough loo roll to see us through the apocalypse. The kids were not at school or university, and we were not at work. We were blessed to be in
Alive to the World: A Catholic way to teach about relationships
August 30, 2023
Alive to the World helps children learn about family values, says Louise Kirk. How do you teach marriage and family life to children? This is key to social renewal and was urged at the Synod of the Family in 2015. The bishops specifically asked schools to begin the preparation. Matrimony is not unvalued in the
Doing the right thing the wrong way: Schools should ensure the charities partnered with share values
August 30, 2023
Schools should make sure the charities they work with share the same values, says Gertrude Clarke. This new term is something of a milestone. For my 16-year-old daughter, after five years in a Catholic state girls’ school, she’ll be joining a Catholic state boys’ school that’s coeducational in sixth form. She’s already talking darkly about
New history of the Jesuits in the United States is honest, thorough and thoughtful
August 30, 2023
For the greater glory of God. ‘The head is very large;  the forehead is flat, and  a foot and a half bet- ween the horns,” wrote the priest. Fr Jacques Marquette, a French Jesuit, joined the explorer Louis Jolliet on a canoe journey along the Mississippi River in 1673. Marquette’s prose could be mistaken for
Catholic Herald Good Schools Guide 2023: Introduction
August 30, 2023
This year, having got more than the all-clear from Ofsted, Ampleforth is back in the top ten along with two new additions: girls’ school The Laurels and its brother school The Cedars. Based in South London’s Upper Norwood, near Croydon, on a large campus which they share with Oakwood prep school, both schools have impressed
Spiritual fulfilment, networking and fine food at this year’s Napa Institute conference
August 30, 2023
The Napa Institute conference on the west coast of the US is the annual pilgrimage gathering of business and spiritual leaders of the American Catholic Church, along with a small caravan of media, education leaders, entrepreneurs, attorneys, religious and bible groups, priests, philanthropists, nonprofit executives and Catholic influentials. Last month, I went for the first
How the Gospel presents the choice offered to us by Christ’s crucifixion
August 30, 2023
September sees the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, and as the newly elected Prior (much to my astonishment) and new Parish Priest of Holy Cross, Leicester, I feel it only right that I should say something about what has always been a favourite feast of mine. The Gospel is taken from John 3,
The Catholic response to protest
August 30, 2023
Piety and prayer may be more effective than demonstrations on the streets. In Wareham, Dorset, there is an Anglican curate, the Revd Hilary Bond, who sets out to keep on getting arrested by the police as she demonstrates against climate change. She explained her motivation to the audience of Radio 4’s “Beyond Belief” programme. It
Angel voices, ever singing: Aquinas would have been fascinated by experiments with photons
August 30, 2023
In the Catholic Church there are many reminders of the reality of angels: at the beginning of Mass we ask the angels to pray for us; we cry out with all the host of angels as we acclaim the Sanctus, and in the Bible, angels get a mention around 300 times. But in the month
Heaven, earth and harvest: Praise and thanksgiving in the cycle of rural life
August 30, 2023
As our international readers will know, the European summer was caricatured by certain news outlets as a pre-apocalyptic hellscape with soaring temperatures and wildfires raging out of control. Certainly, there was some truth in this; on the Continent, the thermometers definitely got a run for their money, and friends of mine were stranded on Sicily
Positive parallels between the Commonwealth and the Church
August 30, 2023
Positive parallels between the Commonwealth and the Church. How do you hold together a large multinational association of highly diverse peoples in the modern world? That is a question with which many Catholic leaders are grappling at present, in various different ways. Consider the often furious debates around 2019’s Amazon synod. These debates focused on
Berlin archbishop permits same-sex blessings with impunity
August 30, 2023
A German archbishop has told priests they can confer blessings on same-sex couples without fear of punishment. The move by Archbishop Heiner Koch of Berlin opens the gates to church services for the blessings of couples who “cannot or do not want to marry sacramentally”. In a five-page, 2,000-word letter, the archbishop told the priest
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