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Finnish politician on trial for 'hate speech' for defending traditional marriage
finnish politician päivi räsänen is on trial this week for “hate speech” and “ethnic agitation” after publicly sharing in 2019 her biblical,...
Olenka Hamilton
Why capital punishment is not the answer to evil
inflicting harm for harm's sake is anathema to human nature. we recoil from people who relish causing deliberate but needless pai...
Nicholas Reed Langen
A 'new chapter' for Ampleforth
ampleforth headmaster peter roberts speaks to oleńka hamilton about his new mission i was looking forward to speaking to peter roberts, the ...
Olenka Hamilton
Alive to the World: A Catholic way to teach about relationships
alive to the world helps children learn about family values, says louise kirk. how do you teach marriage and family life to children? this i...
Louise Kirk
Doing the right thing the wrong way: Schools should ensure the charities partnered with share values
schools should make sure the charities they work with share the same values, says gertrude clarke. this new term is something of a milestone...
Gertrude Clarke
Catholic Herald Good Schools Guide 2023: Introduction
this year, having got more than the all-clear from ofsted, ampleforth is back in the top ten along with two new additions: girls’ school the...
Olenka Hamilton
How the Gospel presents the choice offered to us by Christ’s crucifixion
september sees the feast of the exaltation of the cross, and as the newly elected prior (much to my astonishment) and new parish priest of h...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP
The Catholic response to protest
piety and prayer may be more effective than demonstrations on the streets. in wareham, dorset, there is an anglican curate, the revd hilary ...
Gavin Ashenden
Angel voices, ever singing: Aquinas would have been fascinated by experiments with photons
in the catholic church there are many reminders of the reality of angels: at the beginning of mass we ask the angels to pray for us; we cry ...
Fr Robert Verrill OP
Heaven, earth and harvest: Praise and thanksgiving in the cycle of rural life
as our international readers will know, the european summer was caricatured by certain news outlets as a pre-apocalyptic hellscape with soar...
Serenhedd James
Positive parallels between the Commonwealth and the Church
positive parallels between the commonwealth and the church. how do you hold together a large multinational association of highly diverse peo...
Niall Gooch
Berlin archbishop permits same-sex blessings with impunity
a german archbishop has told priests they can confer blessings on same-sex couples without fear of punishment. the move by archbishop heiner...
Simon Caldwell
Who trusts the trusts?: Catholic Multi-Academy Trusts run by CEOs could be a disaster waiting to happen
just before covid, the little old lady who lived next door to us sold her 3-bedroom house to a bulgarian couple who had plans to turn it int...
Katherine Bennett
Sustaining the world's oldest alliance at World Youth Day
on his way to world youth day, tom colsy enjoys the prodigious hospitality of a herald reader in lisbon. i was walking down the boulev...
Tom Colsy
Moscow thanks Pope for 'balanced approach' to war in Ukraine
rome – russian spokespersons have praised what they called pope francis’s “balanced approach” to the war in ukraine, in the wake of protests...
Crux Staff
The rampant anti-Catholicism of the French Left
on the morning of 8 june this year, henri d’anselme heard a commotion in an annecy playground. the 24-year-old frenchman then saw something ...
Gavin Mortimer
Obituary: Quentin de la Bédoyère, former Catholic Herald columnist
quentin de la bédoyère, 1934-2023 quentin de la bédoyère died on 1 august, at the age of 88. a former catholic herald columnist, he used to ...
The Catholic Herald
Ruth Kelly backs campaign to scrap the cap on faith admissions to Catholic schools
ruth kelly, the former education secretary, has added her voice to calls for a notorious cap on faith-based admissions to new catholic schoo...
Simon Caldwell
‘God sent us’: Lebanese nuns find a home in war-torn Iraq
tom westcott reports from karamlesh, near mosul, where the sisters of jesus crucified are supporting a community torn apart by militants. at...
Tom Wescott
Catholic Multi-Academy Trusts run by CEOs are putting our schools in peril
just before covid, the little old lady who lived next door to us sold her 3-bedroom house to a bulgarian couple who had plans to turn it int...
Katherine Bennett
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