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Dealing with war and refugees as a priest in Rhodes and Israel
the island of rhodes, in the aegean sea, has always been a gateway between east and west. as the parish priest here for the past 23 years, i...
Luke Gregory OFM
One of the Herald’s chaplains answers your questions: Tackling religious ‘myths’
our daughter, felicity, is starting year 9. she is really good at science and wants to be an engineer. getting her to mass hasn’t been easy ...
The Catholic Herald
Culture wars are nothing new: Mince pies were popish abominations to Cromwell’s Puritans
with the christmas period continuing through to early january, might i urge catholics to "hold the line" – to keep their trees and decoratio...
Tom Colsy
Letter from the Editor: Jeremy Irons, the Cotswolds, charity and Da Vinci
on a chilly night early in december, i attended a wonderful charity dinner at sudeley castle in gloucestershire which raised money for wellc...
William Cash
Christians in the Holy Land
this christmastide issue of the catholic herald is a reminder that, for christians, the festive season is still festive. secular society may...
The Catholic Herald
Mythmaking online and Marshall McLuhan
nick ripatrazone explores how walter j scheirer’s new book a history of fake things on the internet engages with marshall mcluhan’s ide...
Nick Ripatrazone
Did the King's speech bode well for his faithful subjects in 2024, a year that could prove momentous?
in the spirit of apocalyptic optimism, political pundits are prophesying not so much doom rather a great deal of civic excitement for this n...
Gavin Ashenden
'Catholicism in Numbers': New data highlights the changing Catholic Church in Britain and Ireland
a new set of pastoral statistics regarding the catholic church in england and wales, scotland and ireland has been released by the catholic ...
TimKinnear
'On the eighth day of Christmas my true love sent to me'...Fireworks followed by the dawn of New Year's Day
it is new year’s day. midnight has been marked with the usual eruption of noise. if there was silence in heaven for half an hour, there was ...
vivboland
New UK director of Word on Fire hopes to set Britain on fire
katherine bennett talks to brenden thompson, the new uk director of word on fire, about establishing the ministry here. in the nowhere place...
Katherine Bennett
Irish-born Los Angeles bishop among 20 'missionaries' who died violently in 2023
a total of 20 missionaries – including an irish-born american bishop – died violently in the service of the faith during 2023, according to ...
Simon Caldwell
'On the seventh day of Christmas my true love sent to me'...WB Yeats's poem 'The Mother of God'
the threefold terror of love; a fallen flare through the hollow of an ear; wings beating about the room; the terror of all terrors that i bo...
The Catholic Herald
On the ground with a movement raising the crucifix across the French countryside
last year across france an average of one crucifix each day was restored by sos calvaires, a flourishing apostolate of young french ca...
Thomas Edwards
The charms of a Tuscan Christmas
thanks to renaissance art, tuscany looks like everyone’s idea of christmas. the sheep still huddle in groups on the open hillsides, and are ...
John Martin Robinson
'On the sixth day of Christmas my true love sent to me'...Antonia Fraser and Uncle John's Trousers
"christmas comes but once a year," my mother was apt to sing out on st stephen's day, "but when it comes, it brings good cheer!" we children...
Antonia Fraser
Ortega arrests two senior priests in continued crackdown on Nicaraguan clergy
police in nicaragua have arrested two more catholic priests after they prayed in public for a bishop jailed for life when he refused to go i...
Simon Caldwell
Rift widens over gay blessings as Hungarian bishops reject them but Indian cardinal says yes
india’s most senior cardinal has defended fiducia supplicans - the controversial new vatican text approving non-liturgical blessings for sam...
Simon Caldwell
'On the fifth day of Christmas my true love sent to me'...The martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket
on the fifth day of christmas, the carol sends to us five gold rings. it is also the day on which the church remembers st thomas becket, the...
James Willoughby
Christmas attacks against Christians in Nigeria leave at least 160 dead
yaoundè, cameroon ( crux ) – attacks across nigeria’s central plateau state on christmas eve left at least 160 people dead and about 300 oth...
Ngala Chimtom
Pope offers usual Christmas message of hope while lamenting ‘the little Jesuses of today’ lost to war, migration and abortion
at the end of a year marked by the outbreak of fresh wars and by various personal health crises, pope francis at christmas offered a message...
Elise Ann Allen
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