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A hushed-up genocide
ten years ago, it would have been unthinkable to see a headline about the genocide of christians on the bbc website. while the corporation h...
The Catholic Herald
If Kate Smith's statue falls, what about Margaret Sanger's?
the past few years have witnessed in these united states an orgy of something once thought confined to revolutionary dictatorships: the mass...
Charles Coulombe
Gene Wolfe: a Catholic from the far future
gene wolfe, who died last week at the age of 87, imagined vast, strange worlds in his fiction – and revealed them in flickering glimpses. hi...
David Randall and Christopher Welser
Could Catholic adoption agencies be declared illegal?
yet another city’s catholic adoption agencies were forced to shut down last week, this time in pennsylvania, where a federal judge ruled tha...
Jordan Bloom
Prize Crossword 0591
cryptic across 6 how the angel appeared to end maria’s torment? (2,1,5) 8 staggering move to gain influence (4) 9 close, and familiar with k...
Alun Evans
How to be a practising mystic
“i’m a practising mystic.” a woman said that in one of my classes some years ago and it raised lots of eyebrows. i was teaching a class in m...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Sir Roger and the clash of cultures
i went last weekend to the inaugural buckingham history festival. it was held by the university of buckingham, under the aegis of its vice-c...
David Oldroyd-Bolt
Heretic of the Week: John Knox
john knox (c 1512-1572) was born sometime between 1505 and 1515 in haddington, scotland. he is thought to have studied at either the univers...
Charles Coulombe
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week iii sunday, may 5: the third sunday of easter acts 5:27-32, 40b-41; ps 30; rev 5:11-14; jn 21:1-19 monday, ...
The Catholic Herald
How to... accompany the dying
pope st john paul ii noted in an address in 2004 that “a man, even if seriously ill or disabled in the exercise of his highest functions, is...
Staff writers
Christians who reject the empty tomb are the real myth-makers
as the masses of easter octave come to an end, so do the daily gospel proclamations of jesus’s post-resurrection appearances. for some reaso...
Fr Dominic Allain
Beehives and the meaning of baptism
last week, i was inspired by both the exsultet, sung by the deacon during the vigil of easter with its imagery of bees, and the survival of ...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
The honour of suffering humiliation
the third sunday of easter acts 5:27-32 & 40-41; rev 5:11-14; jn 21:1-19 (year c) christ is alive! he is our hope, and in a wonderful wa...
Bishop David McGough
The story of the 'greatest organisation in human history'
steve weidenkopf, who teaches church history at the christendom college graduate school of theology in virginia has written in timeless: a h...
Francis Phillips
Plato, Peppa Pig and the power of darkness
darkness: a cultural history by nina edwards reaktion books, 288pp, £16.99/$27.50 buttons. offal. weeds. nina edwards has written books abou...
Michael Duggan
A medieval cure for modern man's unease
curing mad truths by rémi brague university of notre dame press, 133pp, £25/$29 rémi brague argues that the modern project has failed, and t...
Edward Feser
The men who stopped Bonnie and Clyde
they’re young, they’re in love, and they kill people.” that was the famous tag-line for arthur penn’s bonnie and clyde (1967), as unforgetta...
Carl Curtis
Letters & Emails
after the revolution, the reckoning sir – the article by fr hugh somerville knapman (feature, april 5), on the desirability of revisiting th...
The Catholic Herald
From marriage to death, our rites are being reinvented
i am made aware that we are coming up to the wedding season by the visibility of the hen party. exactly when these parties – or pre-wedding ...
Mary Kenny
Life under ISIS: Raqqa's Christians tell their story
the churches of raqqa lie in ruins following the defeat of isis. but remarkably the city’s christian community has survived. before the syri...
Sam Sweeney
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