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Don’t despair at Last Supper parody: Paris still has a beating heart of faith
it’s hard to stand up in front of a sunday mass congregation and announce that in the coming week you’re going on pilgrimage to paris (and t...
Albert Robertson OP
‘Fallout’: moral relativism remains TV's guiding ethic in this tale of a cyberpunk Dark Age
the post-nuclear wastes of california in which the fallout series takes place offer a glimpse into a steampunk dark age in a state of flux. ...
Ferdie Rous
Thirteen clerics detained in Nicaragua as local Church haemorrhages priests through persecution
at least 13 priests, deacons and members of religious congregations have been illegally detained by the nicaraguan government since the begi...
EduardoCamposLima
Six arrested with CitizenGo bus escorted out of Paris over Last Supper parody
it may be day 12 of the olympics but the fallout from the opening ceremony continues to play out with parisian police yesterday arresting si...
The Catholic Herald
EDITORIAL: It's a reckoning when there is only one seminarian for the whole of Dublin
the maxim that the sins of the fathers are visited on the sons is true in a particularly grim sense in ireland where, in the archdiocese of ...
The Catholic Herald
Neo-liberal chaos: from the Olympics’ opening ceremony to the UK riots
various media outlets have reported that the iranian government summoned the french ambassador in order to demand an explanation for the dis...
Mark Jenkins
Tributes pour in for Cardinal O’Malley along with warm words for new Archbishop of Boston
when asked by a reporter to consider his legacy in the archdiocese of boston following the news of his retirement, cardinal seán o’malley ga...
johnlavenburg
Pope celebrates special Vespers at his favourite Rome basilica
for the first time in his 11-year papacy pope francis marked the feast of the dedication of his favourite roman basilica by celebrating vesp...
Elise Allen
EDITORIAL: Law and disorder; the Christian response to the UK riots
english bishops have condemned the outbreak of mob violence against asylum seekers and refugees as well as immigrant communities. the bishop...
The Catholic Herald
Pope Francis writes letter on vital role of novels and poems for all Christians
pope francis has written a comprehensive and deeply personal letter on the important role of literature in the formation of priests but also...
James Jeffrey
Cardinal Sean O'Malley's 20-year tenure as Archbishop of Boston ends
on 5 august the vatican announced that pope francis has accepted the resignation of cardinal sean o'malley, one of catholicism’s most influe...
Elise Allen
Is religion bouncing back during these Olympics?
while the fallout from the strange scenes of the olympics' opening ceremony continues to play out – the bbc’s latest moral maze focused on t...
The Catholic Herald
Why did it take a Muslim to persuade the Pope to denounce a disgusting parody of the Last Supper?
rome – whatever one makes of his aims or tactics, there’s no doubt turkish president recep tayyip erdoğan is a formidable political operator...
John L Allen
Mob invades Indian Catholic school to switch statues of saints for Hindu deities
mumbai, india – a group of around 50 hindu nationalists forced their way into a catholic school in india and demanded christian statues were...
The Catholic Herald
Girl branded 'delusional' for wanting to live is exonerated by court a year after her death
a patient branded “delusional” by doctors after she rejected their plan to end her life on a death pathway has been exonerated by a court al...
Simon Caldwell
The Da Vinci Coding of the Vatican Girl
rome – as i’ve observed before, the “vatican girl” case, referring to the 1983 disappearance of a 15-year-old girl in rome whose father was ...
John L Allen
'Disturbing rise' in attacks against Christians in Israel, report claims
the christians of israel have suffered a “disturbing rise” in attacks including spitting, physical harassment, damage to property and cemete...
John Newton
Christianity takes another blow from trans ideology at Olympics – this time literally to the head – in female boxing
when the french bishops conference responded to the shock of the last supper parody during the opening ceremony of the olympic games they at...
James Jeffrey
Refreshingly honest account of Queen Victoria: from foibles and failings to her sense of duty and religious leanings
queen victoria and her prime ministers: a personal history anne somerset william collins, £30, 630 pages for two-thirds of the last two cent...
Fr Mark Vickers
‘Theatre of Satan’: Cardinal Burke condemns Last Supper parody in Paris
cardinal raymond burke has become one of the highest-ranking catholic church officials to address the "abominable mockery" during the openin...
The Catholic Herald
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