July, a month to venerate the Precious Blood
July 10, 2020
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Special veneration of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord is by now a long-standing tradition during the month of
Obituary: Audrey Donnithorne, convert who helped China’s Catholics
July 10, 2020
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When Audrey Donnithorne, who has died at the age of 97, was just two years old, she was kidnapped by
Homeschooling can broaden parents’ horizons too
July 10, 2020
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The problem of children of all ages bouncing off the walls – while other children attempt to do their lessons,
From the editor’s desk: Herald writers on relating to the complicated past
July 10, 2020
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Sometimes an issue of the magazine is planned around a particular theme, and sometimes one just emerges of its own
The road to Canterbury: Why St Thomas Becket still fascinates 850 years after his murder
July 7, 2020
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This July was meant to have seen the return to Canterbury of a major relic: the blood-splattered tunicle (shirt) reputedly
The internet has taken away the joy of boredom
July 2, 2020
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Bored, bored, bored … That’s been my coronavirus experience. Luckily, I’ve avoided the plague. But I’ve been thrown on my
A novel about dashed hopes and delusions of grandeur
July 2, 2020
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The Cactus League By Emily Nemens Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 288pp, £20.99/$27 Many readers will be drawn to Emily Nemens’s
It’s getting harder to deny the differences between men and women
July 1, 2020
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For some years now, equality between the sexes – or “genders” as we now often say – has been such
A life fighting disease and poverty in tribal Kenya
July 1, 2020
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Stronger than Death: How Annalena Tonelli defied terror and tuberculosis in the Horn of Africa By Rachel Pieh Jones Plough
Microbes get a bad press, but some of them have their uses
June 30, 2020
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Appropriately in this time of plague, the capital’s Victorian cemeteries have proved a haven for appreciating this extraordinary best of
The Benedictine way can inform our lives – and our politics
June 30, 2020
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The Way of St Benedict By Rowan Williams Bloomsbury Continuum, 160pp, £12.99 Rowan Williams describes St Benedict as “uncompromisingly prosaic”.
Working from home has shown me that childcare is a full-time job
June 29, 2020
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One of the biggest surprises of having children has been the realisation that childcare is a full-time job. That is