Get 3 months of unlimited digital access for just $3
Subscribe today and get your first 3 months for just $3. Cancel at any time.
Subscribe
Newsletters
Newsletters
Chapter House
Latest
Sign In
Log Out
Subscribe
Search The
Catholic Herald
Sign In
Log Out
Subscribe
Sign Out
About
Our History
Contact
Sections
Latest
Chapter House
Columns
Life
Soul
Culture
Vatican Dispatch
Archives
Historic Archive
Exact Editions
More
Newsroom
Magazine
Magnificat
Latest Issue
latest feed
Best of the web: The response to the Notre-Dame fire
parisians knelt to pray, even as the flames rose at his blog, william newton reflected on the scenes in paris after the fire broke out. “hun...
The Catholic Herald
The week ahead: Divine Mercy, Spanish elections, St Joseph the Worker
many churches will be holding services for divine mercy sunday, which as always takes place a week after easter sunday. preceded by a novena...
The Catholic Herald
Overlooked: 'Final draft' of Vatican constitution
what happened? the council of cardinals has reportedly approved the final draft of a new vatican constitution. praedicate evangelium (preach...
The Catholic Herald
The bitter reality of persecution shouldn't drive us to despair
on easter sunday an image appeared on social media that seemed to sum up christianity in the 21st century. it showed a statue of the risen c...
The Catholic Herald
April 26, 2019
The Catholic Herald
The week France remembered her vocation
“our cathedral!” the man crying beside me on the banks of the seine, watching notre-dame go up in flames, is jewish. on this evening of apri...
Jean Fournier
For music lovers, Versailles is the place to spend Holy Week
catholics will, one hopes, have spent the easter triduum on their knees with open hearts. but those who also managed open ears might have ob...
Michael White
And all manner of thing shall be well
we are all, i suspect, familiar with the famous expression from julian of norwich, now an axiom in our language. “in the end all shall be we...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Kraków is a magical city - especially now the stag parties have gone elsewhere
by some sort of miracle kraków, which was poland’s capital city in the middle ages, is immaculately preserved. the nazis’ tanks and bombs ig...
Andrew M Brown
Heretic of the week: Michael Servetus
michael servetus (1509-1553) was a spanish theologian, scientist and scholar, who had a talent for meeting the rich and famous, and an ultim...
Charles Coulombe
Prize crossword 0589
cryptic across 3 with student getting kicked out, the moral blow upset nathanael, maybe, said john (11) 7 certain churches require pretty go...
Alun Evans
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week i sunday, april 21 : easter sunday acts 10:34a, 37-43; ps 118; col 3:1-4; jn 20:1-9 monday, april 22 : east...
The Catholic Herald
How to… Feast at Easter
eastertide lasts for 50 days, compared to the 40 days that span lent, meaning the celebrations last longer than the fasting. it is good to b...
The Catholic Herald
Wherever we weep, the Master is here
the year turns and we celebrate easter again. yet it is not a different mystery or a new celebration simply on account of a year having pass...
Fr Dominic Allain
Easter: a season for singing and dancing
the sacred triduum is behind us, with its shadows, deprivation and purifying lamentation. renewed, we now enter a liturgical season of light...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
The Word this Week: Our alienation and the Father's gift
solemnity of the resurrection the scriptures throughout the easter liturgy, beginning with the easter vigil itself, tell our story. it is a ...
Bishop David McGough
Wren brought Rome to London – without ever going there
sir christopher wren by paul rabbitts shire publications, 96pp, £9.99/$14 displaying a typically victorian aversion to the classicising aest...
James Baresel
The Nobel laureate who brought the Gospel to his atheist readers
we should not be surprised if a major catholic writer reflects on the great mysteries of his faith. françois mauriac (1885-1970) was awarded...
Francis Phillips
Actually, modern churches can be beautiful
100 churches in 100 years by the twentieth century society batsford, 208pp, £25/$35 the late alice thomas ellis, contributor to this magazin...
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Without Christ, poetry is also unredeemed
when the pilgrim dante has come forth at last from the jaws of hell to look upon the stars of heaven again, he does not do what the modern w...
Anthony Esolen
Previous
Next
subscribe to the catholic herald today
Our best content is exclusively available to our subscribers. Subscribe today and gain instant access to expert analysis, in-depth articles, and thought-provoking insights—anytime, anywhere. Don’t miss out on the conversations that matter most.
Subscribe