Sunday, 1 March 2015

What colour is this dress?

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This week's Internet sensation was caused by arguments over the colour of a rather ugly dress. It seems that different people saw it in ...
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Sunday, 22 February 2015

Don't forget to say your Rosica!

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The Rosary is old hat! From now on Catholics are encouraged to say the Rosica, a new sequence of prayers involving meditations on the Myster...
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Into the wilderness for Lent

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So Eccles prepared to go into the wilderness for Lent. On the day before Ash Wednesday the world had celebrated a big festival: formerly cal...
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Hilary Mantel rewrites the New Testament

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After the runaway success of "Wolf Hall" with its novel thesis that Thomas Cromwell was a hero and that the nasty Catholic St Thom...
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Monday, 16 February 2015

Christians get ready to observe Ramadan

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We are guided today by a brilliant observation from the Catholic Bishops of England and Wales: Of course! The time has come to combine Ra...
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Saturday, 14 February 2015

Can the Curia reform Pope Francis?

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The Curia - essentially the Vatican's Civil Service - is a body with a long and distinguished history. It was founded by Christ Himself,...
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Giles Fraser may not exist, but we need him.

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Our guest blogger Cormac Murphy-O'Stopheles writes: It is unfortunate that the Church of England has just decided to remove all mentio...
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Friday, 13 February 2015

Prayer 3: How to do intercessions

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I'll hand over to Tony now, as he's going to lead us in our intercessions. Thanks, Father Phil. Please kneel, stand, sit, or lie...
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Wednesday, 11 February 2015

How to understand atheists

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Broadly speaking, there are three kinds of atheists: trolls, obsessives, and ignorant people. Curiously, most of them use the same catchphr...
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Tuesday, 10 February 2015

Fifty Shades of Purple

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This week shows the release of (some would say) an erotic film based on the lives of bishops. With explicit scenes of dominance and discipl...
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Friday, 6 February 2015

New production of Wagner's Tristram and Odone

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Wagner's great operatic love story, Tristram and Odone, was broadcast on the BBC last night, but so far the critical reaction has been ...
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