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If Virginia Governor Northam goes, pro-lifers won't be able to breathe a sigh of relief
in the last two weeks democrats in new york and virginia have advanced efforts to expand legal abortion, succeeding in the former case and f...
Jordan Bloom
Week in review
the big story of the past seven days ✣ jeremy hunt vows to defend persecuted christians what happened? jeremy hunt, britain’s foreign secret...
Staff writers
World news
louisiana law restricting abortion put on pause the supreme court (pictured) has put a temporary hold on a law that would restrict abortions...
Staff writers
The Pope's in-flight press conference didn't get the attention it deserved
when it comes to news from the pope’s in-flight press conference en route to rome from panama last week, his discussion of the “inflated exp...
Christopher R. Altieri
The Church is leading the battle against human trafficking
three years ago police in lancashire noticed that among an influx of romanians was a man called gabriel razvan ursu, a career criminal with ...
Simon Caldwell
Excommunication breakdown: Why Catholics can't agree about Cuomo
without a doubt, the most evocative moment in catholic cinema is the excommunication scene from becket. richard burton, playing thomas becke...
Michael Warren Davis
Asia Bibi's exoneration is good news for other victims of the blasphemy law
asia bibi has, at long last, triumphed in her search for justice. when the supreme court of pakistan last week threw out a challenge against...
John Pontifex
Germany's Christian Democrats are about to liberalise the abortion laws
the german government has reached a compromise on liberalising the country’s abortion law. health minister jens spahn of the christian democ...
Jon Anderson
A new persecution has begun - and with it, a subtle temptation
The danger to Western Christians doesn't come from sword-and-sandals tyrants, but from an enforced code of etiquette
Matthew Schmitz
When anti-Catholicism inspired riots
historians, including some of the good ones, have often proffered sweeping generalisations about american anti-catholicism. you’ll read abou...
Jonathan Wright
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week ii sunday, february 10 : fifth sunday in ordinary time is 6:1-2a, 3-8; ps 138; 1 cor 15:1-11; lk 5:1-11 mon...
The Catholic Herald
How to… Make the most of suffering
monday is world day of the sick, a feast day which has now been going for 25 years. when john paul ii instituted it, he had recently been di...
The Catholic Herald
Did the creators of the Novus Ordo go too far?
to my delight and edification, i discovered that in the extraordinary form the mass of candlemas uses the preface of the nativity. a contemp...
Fr Dominic Allain
Why Anglo-Catholicism appeals to millennials
"twentysomethings are flocking to anglo-catholic services" shouted a headline in the times above an article featuring my church, st bartholo...
Marcus Walker
The Pope's Abu Dhabi trip has vindicated Benedict XVI's Regensburg lecture
pope francis made history this week when he became the first catholic pontiff to visit the united arab emirates – which is to say, the arabi...
Sohrab Ahmari
Ken Russell's 'The Devils' is badly misunderstood
bill donohue, president of the catholic league, recently condemned the new york times for using a picture of “a nun in habit standing behind...
Deal Hudson
Noble and moving: Richard Gowers' recording of La Nativité du Seigneur is a revelation
olivier messiaen (1908-92) still divides opinion. for some listeners, even well-attuned ones, his work remains unreachable. noisy, too many ...
Francis O’Gorman
Duterte is exploiting the bishops' relative weakness
last weekend the philippines was engulfed by rumours that the country’s mercurial president, rodrigo duterte, had died. the 73-year-old had ...
The Catholic Herald
England gets just the right amount of snow
driving around oxfordshire churches at the weekend, i sympathised with prince philip, and his dangerous driving, for the first time. in the ...
Harry Mount
Courage and diplomacy in the UAE
it’s only because conditions elsewhere in the muslim world are so much worse that the united arab emirates appears to be a land of “toleranc...
Fr Raymond de Souza
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