Archbishop urges Catholics to see ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ relics exhibition
All British Catholics should try to visit the new exhibition of relics and reliquaries at the British Museum in London, Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster has said. Treasures of Heaven: saints,...
View ArticleDebate: Does it matter if relics are fake?
This week Archbishop Nichols suggested that it didn’t necessarily matter if a relic was authentic or not. Speaking about the British Museum’s Treasures of Heaven exhibition, he said: [R]elics are a...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 04/07/11
At the Angelus yesterday Benedict XVI said that Jesus says to both rich and poor: “Come unto me.” A new text in which Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, discusses her abortion has...
View ArticleThe Pompeii exhibition – another disappointing day out in London
I have just been to see the Pompeii exhibition at the British Museum. Yes, I know it has been going on for months now, but I thought I would catch it in the last few weeks of the run in order to avoid...
View ArticleHow the ark changed shape
In 1985 a man called Douglas Simmonds brought a bag of miscellaneous antiquities to the British Museum for inspection. Dr Irving Finkel, the museum’s assistant keeper of ancient Mesopotamian script,...
View ArticleThe Pope’s coca tea was no more stimulating than a cup of coffee
Some Catholics might have got the shock of their lives when they opened the Metro newspaper recently and saw this headline: “The Pope plans to ‘do cocaine’ during his trip to South America”. That, of...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 21/01/16
The Holy See wants Britain to stay in the European Union because leaving “is not going to make a stronger Europe”, Vatican “foreign minister” Archbishop Paul Gallagher has said (video). Blessed John...
View Article‘A haunting glimpse of what we lost’: Virgin and Child returns to England...
A medieval Virgin and Child that survived the ravages of the Reformation has returned to England for the first time in 600 years. The alabaster statue, thought to have been made around 1350 in the...
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