Is the Bible the Church's authority or guide? Churches aspiring to be `seeker-sensitive' might be inclined to present it as the latter, but could find themselves cutting the price so more will buy and thus losing spiritual integrity. Our anti-authority, [...]
Brother Steven Haws CR presents two articles written in 1944 by Fr Joiner of St Clement's, Philadelphia, warning of the dangers of Liberalism Article 1— Liberal Catholics The rise of Liberal Groups within the Church should give us pause and [...]
Denis Desert on the image of Christ in the paintings of Marc Chagall pope Francis was quoted recently as saying that his favourite painting was Marc Chagall's White Crucion, No doubt he identified in the artists work the general suffering [...]
J. Alan Smith takes a closer look at the Gettysburg Address :..that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth' (Abraham Lincoln, Address at the Dedication of the National Cemetery at [...]
Some regions of France are especially rich in Romanesque architecture. The Auvergne is pre-eminent. They have their regional peculiarities — the bigger churches tend to have high transepts and octagonal central towers. Nestling in the Sioulet valley, Orcival (1) is [...]
Paul Cartwright travelled to France with the West Yorkshire Police Band for the 70th Anniversary of D-Day 'When you go home you MUST tell everyone, especially the young ones, about what happened here all those years ago, because they must [...]
Digby Anderson explores the reasons for the modern Church's silence on the Last Things A good and prominent Forward in Faith priest complained recently that we don't hear much these days about hell. Nor indeed about the other Last Things. [...]
Damian Feeney on the formulation of a strategic growth plan in a diocese in the Province of South Australia It all began with a telephone conversation. The newly minted Bishop of The Murray in South Australia, formerly the Bishop of [...]
Many of you will have heard the story of the Methodist superintendent who looked in at a service being taken by a probationer. Pausing in the porch, he asked the verger, `Has Mr Snooks finished yet?' He have, Sir; was [...]
The ordination of Fr Mischa Richards by the Bishop of Horsham Deacons Andreas Wenzel Bishop of Pontefract 5 July: 11 am Wakefield Cathedral Priests Richard Brown Bishop of Beverley 15 June: G pm York Minster Christopher Johnson Bishop of Beverley [...]