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November 08, 2018

November 01, 2018

What we can learn from ‘slum priests’ SIR – Your inspiring and insightful cover story, “A beautiful answer for ugly times” (October 26), rightly reminds us of the impressive and beautiful Catholic heritage of celebrating our faith by creating wonderful works of art and buildings. In the headlong rush to denigrate our Christian past, it

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November 01, 2018

Comment of the week

October 25, 2018

Lobsters, Cornish pasties and rigid rules SIR – I understand what Ann Farmer is saying (Letter, October 19) but she overstates her case. The difficulty of rigid rules that try to cover every case has long been understood. Indeed, in an English secular context it was the medieval Catholic Church, through clerical judges (pre-Reformation judges

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October 18, 2018

Cover

October 18, 2018

Comments of the week

October 18, 2018

Letters should include a genuine postal or email address, phone number and the style or title of the writer. Email: [email protected] Due to space constraints, please keep correspondence below 250 words, longer letters may be published online Why the young are drawn to ‘rigid rules’ SIR – Matthew Schmitz (Comment, October 12) astutely notes the

Saints reunited

October 18, 2018

On Sunday, Pope Francis canonised two spiritual giants of the 20th century. From now on, St Paul VI and St Oscar Romero will always be connected in the Catholic imagination. But do the two saints share anything more than a canonisation date? Their biographies are strikingly different. Paul VI was a consummate Vatican insider who

Mass readings

October 18, 2018

Ordinary Form Divine Office Week I Sunday, October 21: The 29th Sunday of the Year Is 53:10-11; Ps 33; Heb 4:14-16; Mk 10:35-45 Monday, October 22: Weekday in Ordinary Time or St John Paul II Eph 2:1-10; Ps 100; Lk 12:13-21 Tuesday, October 23: Weekday in Ordinary Time or St John of Capestrano Eph 2:12-22;

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October 11, 2018

Cartoon: by Kipper Williams

October 11, 2018

A strange response

October 11, 2018

Catholics were starting to wonder whether the Vatican would ever respond to Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s passionate and sometimes rambling “testimony”, published six weeks ago. Archbishop Viganò claimed that a network of corrupt prelates had protected ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick, a serial sex abuser. Most sensationally, Viganò said Pope Francis had known about McCarrick since at

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