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April 07, 2024
April 07, 2024
One of the Herald’s chaplains answers your questions We were delighted when our son Tom was offered a place at our local Catholic academy school. It is over-subscribed, with an excellent academic reputation. However, we are surprised that it seems far less Catholic than his primary school. Mass and prayers don’t seem to feature. Tom
April 07, 2024
Can a person commit pilgrimage “adultery”? In all the planning leading up to taking a group of Catholic Herald pilgrims along a portion of the Via di Francesco – the Way of St Francis – to Assisi in Italy, I felt a strange sense of unease about being engaged in a form of betrayal. For
April 07, 2024
THE CHURCH PROCLAIMS the truth of God’s mercy revealed in the crucified and risen Christ, and she professes it in various ways. Furthermore, she seeks to practice mercy towards people through people, and she sees in this an indispensable condition for solicitude for a better and “more human” world, today and tomorrow. However, at no
April 07, 2024
ROME – Your starter for ten: Which of the following modern pontiffs gave a high-profile interview to a journalist on extremely sensitive subjects, the result of which was controversy inside and outside the Catholic Church, compelling Vatican officials and spokespersons to issue “clarifications” which did relatively little to calm the waters? The correct answer, as
April 07, 2024
Among the many wonderful paradoxes of Catholic faith, practice and history is that now-canonised saints did not always act so saintly. From St Monica’s alcoholism to St Athanasius’s irascibility to St Jerome’s chronic ill-temper, the tradition is replete with examples of inconstancy. It is perhaps not an accident that the earliest example of this phenomenon
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