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World news: from Houston to Hong Kong
peoria, illinois archbishop sheen’s body will be moved as appeal fails the body of venerable fulton sheen will be moved to peoria, after a l...
Staff writers
Meanwhile: The Catholic faith of the queen of Creole cooking
tributes have poured in for leah chase, a new orleans chef who played a leading role in the civil rights movement, and who died last week. a...
Staff Reporter
The best of the web: Sign language, papal press conferences and Twitter's demons
clerics who helped create sign language for millennia, wrote inés antón dayas at national geographic, those “with hearing impairments encoun...
Staff writers
The week ahead: 40 hours, Cardinal Arinze and Courage
many churches will hold forty hours’ devotions in the days leading up to the solemnity of corpus christi on sunday, june 23. the devotion co...
Staff writers
Overlooked: Five bishops issue 'declaration of truths'
what happened? cardinal raymond burke and three bishops from kazakhstan have signed a document aiming to affirm traditional church teaching ...
Staff writers
The big story: Vatican department speaks out against 'gender theory'
what happened? the vatican’s education department has issued a new document on gender issues, saying that the trend towards transgender iden...
Staff writers
Hurrah for the language of prostitutes, beggars, pimps – and bishops
the vatican unveiled its latest innovation last saturday: a news bulletin spoken entirely in latin. hebdomada papae (“the pope’s week”) is a...
The Catholic Herald
June 14, 2019
The Catholic Herald
Even holy people are scared of death
"a common soldier dies without fear; jesus died afraid.” iris murdoch wrote those words which, i believe, help expose an over-simplistic not...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
What happened when I learned the Old Mass
i recently learned how to offer mass in the extraordinary form. often referred to as the latin mass, it uses the missal of 1962, which in th...
Fr Michael Rennier
Heretic of the week: Joanna Southcott
joanna southcott (1750-1814) was born in devon to a small farming family. she went into service at a gentleman’s house in exeter and worked ...
Charles Coulombe
Prize crossword 0596
cryptic across 3 a gumboil not treated here is the end for saul (5,6) 7 first to come from ancient synagogues in a region around ephesus (4)...
Alun Evans
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week iv sunday, june 9 : pentecost acts 2:1-11; ps 104; 1 cor 12:3b-7, 12-13; jn 20:19-23 monday, june 10 : mary...
The Catholic Herald
How to… Celebrate Ordinary Time
the church is about to enter 34 weeks of “ordinary time”. but “ordinary” doesn’t have to mean boring or run-of-the-mill. catholics can, if t...
The Catholic Herald
Why a saintly priest trespassed on the Naples Metro
it was only recently that i discovered the servant of god don dolindo ruotolo, a neapolitan priest and a franciscan tertiary, through his be...
Fr Dominic Allain
The Holy Spirit is our link to the early Church
on the hebrew shavuot or greek pentekosté the jews commemorated the descent of god’s law on mount sinai, wreathed in fire, 50 days after the...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
What it means to live in the Spirit of the Risen Lord
pentecost sunday acts 2: 1-11; 1 cor 12:3-7 & 12-13; jn 20:19-23 (year c) "when pentecost day came round, the apostles had all met in on...
Bishop David McGough
Pliny: A second-rate author with a mysteriously good press
in the shadow of vesuvius: a life of pliny by daisy dunn, william collins 324pp, £20/$29.95 every schoolchild used to know something about p...
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Is history driven by 'troublemakers'?
troublemakers by dieter thoma polity press, 400pp, £30/$45 two recent events have made german philosopher dieter thoma’s wide-ranging book t...
Matt Thorne
The Scottish missionary who was transported to Auschwitz
jane haining: a life of love and courage by mary miller birlinn, 240pp, £14.99/$20 we know, hear, think and speak a lot about the horrors of...
Allan Massie
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