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Tag Archives: Catholic Herald
Catholic Herald on recent SSPX developments
The editorial at the beginning of this week’s print edition of the Catholic Herald, the UK’s best Catholic weekly.
BAD REASON #873 for not going to confession
From the 24 March 2017 print edition of The Catholic Herald, the UK’s best Catholic weekly… for which I, by the way, write a a rather unheralded short weekly column. The title: Omnium Gatherum BAD REASON #873 for not going to confession when you know … Read More
Catholic Herald app!
For a few years I have been writing a weekly column for the UK’s best Catholic weekly, the Catholic Herald. At first I had a column about the prayers of the Mass, which carried us through the transition to the … Read More
“One of the great papist characters in modern fiction”
At the UK’s best Catholic weekly, the Catholic Herald, there is a fun piece about books I often mention here, the Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian, who would be 100 years old this year. Which I would that he had … Read More
Posted in O'Brian Tags, Preserved Killick
Tagged Aubrey/Maturin, Catholic Herald, Patrick O'Brian, Stephen Maturin
17 Comments
17 Comments
Fr. Tim Finigan: “Isn’t Margate terrific?”
From the newly retooled Catholic Herald, the best Catholic weekly in the UK comes this abut my friend Fr. Tim Finigan, who was in the autumn transferred from his parish in Blackfen to far-flung Margate, where Turner painted and where … Read More
Bp. Egan of Portsmouth: TLM in every parish “wonderful, but it’s not enough.”
The best Catholic weekly in the UK, The Catholic Herald, has an interview with the Bishop of Portsmouth, Most Rev. Philip Egan. Bp. Egan has been, rightly I think, identified with a new wave of bishops who were being appointed … Read More
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Tagged Bp. Egan, Catholic Herald, D. Portsmouth, Fr. Ray Blake, LMS, TLM, traditionalists
20 Comments
20 Comments
CH: China awaits its Waugh
The full, online, digital edition of the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald, has some excellent pieces this week. I found this one particularly engaging, giving my penchant for Chinese cinema. You can subscribe to the digital, full-edition of … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, SESSIUNCULA
Tagged Catholic Herald, China, Mo Yan, Roy Peachey, Zhang Yimou
6 Comments
6 Comments
Catholic Herald’s choices for People of the Year for 2012
I saw in the online, full digital version of the UK’s best Catholic weekly, the Catholic Herald‘s choices for People of the Year for 2012. They also explained why they were chosen. Timothy Card. Dolan tops the list, followed by… … Read More
Posted in The Drill
Tagged 2012, Catholic Herald
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Our Lady of Quito and the collapse of the Catholic Church (and its revival)
From the UK’s best Catholic weekly, the Catholic Herald, comes this from William Oddie. Our Lady of Quito prophesied that in the 60s there would be spiritual catastrophe in the Church; then, through the faith of the just, a ‘complete … Read More
The Catholic Herald’s Online Archive is ready to go!
For your Just Too Cool file this week’s online digital edition of the full Catholic Herald (the UK’s best Catholic weekly) has a couple pages which show what their online searchable archive is like. They have available online every issue of … Read More
Katherine on 11 October: Maternity of Mary. A tale of an antiphon, image, and a little street chapel.: “More information on the ex voto hearts, please! I have one hanging on my kitchen wall. It was a gift…”
