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Dear Father: ‘Why can’t the Church be more relevant?’
What are we really asking for when we request a Catholic funeral?
The Herald Chaplain
The Week in Review: Bl Fulton Sheen, Jimmy Lai and the White Sox
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Michael Haynes
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Leo warns Macron and French parliament to defend sanctity of life
Michael Haynes
Fulton Sheen beatified in St Louis after decades-long cause
Christine Rousselle
Fulton Sheen and America
Andrew Cusack
Vatican hosts Franciscan conference instead of TLM pilgrimage
Michael Haynes
What children can teach us about praying the rosary
Greg Finn
Syriac Patriarch accuses Vatican of fostering ‘rebellion’ to oust him
Michael Haynes
What happened to the television audience Fulton Sheen once reached?
Christine Rousselle
Here's where to find archives of Fulton Sheen’s shows
Christine Rousselle
How to watch Fulton Sheen’s beatification
Christine Rousselle
Ratzinger prize recipient critiqued Benedict’s Latin Mass provision
Michael Haynes
Catholics were in America long before 1801
Christine Rousselle
Pope overturns 2021 wage cuts for Vatican staff and cardinals
Michael Haynes
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Joe Biden honoured by Planned Parenthood after defending abortion rights
Christine Rousselle
Wimbledon schools join concert in support of Holy Land Christians
Nathalie Raffray
Canadian woman given euthanasia after psychiatric assessment, daughters say
The Catholic Herald
Pope Leo recalls watching Bl Fulton Sheen and jokes about White Sox success
Christine Rousselle
Scientists begin drilling at Turkish site believed by some to be Noah’s Ark
Christine Rousselle
Zelenskyy calls for justice after Polish convent attack
Corrie Douglas-Young
Sydney Archbishop calls for state funding withdrawal over event that mocked Eucharist
Corrie Douglas-Young
Thousands expected for Eucharistic procession in London
Corrie Douglas-Young
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Turning rebellious fervour into fidelity
Patrick Neve
Bringing Scripture study into the app age
Clement Harrold
Millennials forgot how to grow up
Patrick Neve
Nietzsche versus the Cross
Clement Harrold
Vatican DISPATCH
Pope Leo: Society measured by the ‘care we show for the littlest’
Michael Haynes
Leo warns Macron and French parliament to defend sanctity of life
Michael Haynes
Syriac Patriarch accuses Vatican of fostering ‘rebellion’ to oust him
Michael Haynes
Vatican hosts Franciscan conference instead of TLM pilgrimage
Michael Haynes
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Why the way we rest matters
Bérengère Darlison
In Pictures: Faithful pack Oscott for WeBelieve Festival
The Catholic Herald
The Catholic art of living
Bérengère Darlison
A first pilgrimage to Chartres
Georgia Gilholy
The dignity of hard work
Dominic Perrem
The nuclear family cannot do everything alone
Delphine Chui
A toast to the Stuarts
HJA Sire
Lola Salem on the domestic Upper Room
Lola Salem
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Saint Braveheart?
William Wallace has become a central figure in Scottish identity, but he was also a deeply religious man whose life and death have prompted calls for his canonisation
Corrie Douglas-Young
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The result is not a type, it is a person
John Paget-Tomlinson
Announcement: The Catholic Herald enters media partnership with The Cardinal Newman Society
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Bronze relief honours George Washington’s donation to Virginia’s first Catholic parish
Christine Rousselle
Thomas Dongan and the Catholic origins of New York’s liberties
Andrew Cusack
Author chronicles journey to all 94 US basilicas in new guide
Christine Rousselle
Saturday Read: The Catholic woman who saved Maryland
Andrew Cusack
SOUL
Dear Father: ‘Why can’t the Church be more relevant?’
The Herald Chaplain
What children can teach us about praying the rosary
Greg Finn
‘The heavens declare the glory of God’
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Bishop Mutsaerts: The Church in crisis and how we shouldn’t save it
Bishop Robert Mutsaerts
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Low pressure
The weather forecast behind the Normandy landings should make compelling cinema, but 'Pressure' struggles with both its performances and the historical record
Andrew Cusack
Nolan's ‘Odyssey’ gets Homer right
David Hahn
A priest’s courage in Gaza
Andrew Nash
An unforgettable feast of sacred music
Ysenda Maxtone Graham
Monsignor Gilbey at 125
Mark McGinness
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Pope Leo XIV’s first year has brought no revolutions, but a shift in mood. Stabilisation, rather than spectacle, may prove the foundation of
Joseph Shaw
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Sanctifying the year
An enlightening explanation of the Church’s Ember Days by the liturgical scholar Dr Joseph Shaw
Joseph Shaw
Lent at full strength
The Sacred Liturgy contains all that is needed for a fruitful Lent, if only we are willing to enter into it with seriousness and devotion
Dom Alcuin Reid
An interview with Elizabeth Lev
In conversation with Jan C Bentz, Art historian Elizabeth Lev explains how the Church lost the visual language of faith – and how beauty can
Jan C Bentz
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The bad news of Christianity
Clement Harrold
Clare Boothe Luce
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On the drama of Lent
Gavin Ashenden
Seven children is a small family
Dominic Perrem
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