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Feast of Our Lady of Pompeii and anniversary of foundational stone laid at famous shrine
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March 28, 2024
The dilettante architect: Appraising the ecclesiastical buildings of Harry Goodhart-Rendel
March 28, 2024
Harry Goodhart-Rendel was born in Cambridge in 1887, the son of Harry Chester Goodhart, who had married the Hon Rose Ellen Rendel, a daughter of the wealthy Welsh Liberal politician the 1st Lord Rendel. Harry Chester Goodhart himself was born in Wimbledon, and educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He enjoyed a surprisingly
In first Holy Week homily Pope urges Catholics not to be afraid of guilt
March 28, 2024
ROME – In his first major liturgy for Holy Week, Pope Francis offered an extended reflection on the spiritual underpinnings of so-called “Catholic guilt”, a by now almost notorious concept associated by many (especially critics of Catholicism) with an almost compulsive need to feel overly guilty for any perceived offense. He addressed the ancient tradition
Sonnez Les Matines, Benedict XVI and the Theatre of the Absurd
March 28, 2024
Nick Ripatrazone explores the jaunty, theologically-rich ride of Sonnez Les Matines, a verse play by JC Scharl. At the start of Lent in 1983, Pope Benedict XVI – then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger – gave a retreat in the Vatican for Pope John Paul II and the Roman Curia. “The central mystery of our vocation,” he
£950,000 secured for ‘urgent repairs’ at first Catholic church built in Welsh Valleys 
March 28, 2024
This year’s Easter celebrations at St Illtyd’s Catholic Church in Wales have received an additional boost with the church being granted funding for urgent repairs costing nearly a million pounds. The roof at St Illtyd’s Church and Community Centre in Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, has deteriorated at an alarming rate, leading to more and more leaks
Easter calls for lamb – ideally slow-roasted and served with sauce soubise
March 28, 2024
At Christmas, you may hesitate between turkey, beef, ham or goose, but at Easter it just has to be lamb.  In the UK, lambs are slaughtered at six months or older, which makes them a very different animal from the small, light-coloured, milk-fed lambs of Greece and Italy. A leg can weigh between 4lb and
Legendary and nearly beatified US Army chaplain honoured with statue by Kansas 
March 28, 2024
NEW YORK – A Catholic priest from the Diocese of Wichita who served as an Army chaplain in both World War II and the Korean war, risking his life to minister to troops on the front lines, will soon have a permanent statue in his honour at the state Capitol in Kansas. On 22 March,
One of the Last Supper ‘greats’ arrives at National Gallery in time for Easter
March 28, 2024
Nicolas Poussin’s Eucharist, considered one of the greatest paintings of the Last Supper, has been acquired by the National Gallery in time for Easter.  Eucharist (painted around 1637‒40) is one of a cycle of seven scenes Poussin did in the second half of the 1630s showing the Catholic Sacraments (those rites through which divine grace is
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