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Valentine’s Day diary from Ukraine
by brooks newmark i have ended up on february 14 in odesa, an old port city on the black sea in southern ukraine. my wife lucy flew ou...
The Catholic Herald
George Weigel's new book is a colossal contribution to modern Church history
“christendom was over.” these stark words, repeated several times by the great american scholar george weigel in his new book, to sanc...
Daniel Johnson
Pope Francis prays for Nicaraguan bishop imprisoned for 26 years for trumped-up treason charges
pope francis has expressed his grief at the jailing of a nicaraguan catholic bishop for 26 years on trumped-up charges of treason. the ponti...
Simon Caldwell
Dublin's appalling new 'St Patrick's Festival' bears no resemblance to the feast day's origins
hot on the heels of rebranding christmas festivities in dublin as "winter holidays" and co-opting st brigid’s day on behalf of a mythical ce...
Dubhaltach O Reachtnin
Why the Catholic Herald's next 'camino' is heading to Fátima
following a successful summer pilgrimage to santiago de compostela in north-western spain, the famous sanctuary of fátima in central po...
James Jeffrey
Nicaraguan bishop jailed for 26 years after he spurns offer of exile in United States
the nicaraguan dictatorship has sent a catholic bishop to jail for 26 years for treason after he refused to board a plane to take him into e...
Simon Caldwell
UK charity Mary's Meals is feeding 2.5 million vulnerable children - and it needs your help
(photo: little josephine has uk charity mary's meals to thank for her lunch at school every day) in the dry and unforgiving landscape of tur...
Thomas Black
The legend of the Minotaur comes to Oxford
the sainsbury exhibition galleries at the ashmolean museum in oxford aren’t the largest space in the world, and on entry labyrinth: knossos,...
Mary Walker
Same-sex blessings vote shows the CoE favours secular consensus over Christianity
we don’t know who coined the phrase: “whoever was first to discover water, it wasn’t the fish.” but einstein liked it enough to borrow it: “...
Gavin Ashenden
Priest charged over free speech protest outside abortion clinic
(fr sean gough was charged with 'intimidating service users' | adf) police charged a catholic priest after he held up a sign with the words ...
Simon Caldwell
The problem with a 'gender-neutral' God
the church of england bishops, we are told, are going to debate whether god should be gender neutral, and thus not referred to as "he" or "f...
Katherine Bennett
The Surrender upon Sex: a critique of the Church of England
this is a chapter and extract from catholic herald writer gk chesterton's 1935 book "the well and the shallows". i have explained that these...
GK Chesterton
Bishop Barron: The teachings of the Church Fathers are our 'spiritual weapons' - it is madness to throw them away
( photograph: catholic herald columnist katherine bennett helped organise bishop barron's uk tour ) i have been watching bishop barron onlin...
Katherine Bennett
Ukraine Catholic Church to stop using Russian-associated Julian calendar
the head of ukraine’s catholic church announced on monday a change to liturgical calendars this autumn that would see christmas celebrated o...
Staff Reporter
Church of England synod member 'rebuked' by Welby for publicly opposing same sex blessings
sam margrave is a left-leaning former local councillor and has been a member of the church of england’s general synod for over a decade. pol...
Gavin Ashenden
Bishops launch new 'academically rigorous' Religious Education Directory
education consultant edmund adamus explains what the catholic education service's new directory will mean for catholic schools in england an...
Edmund Adamus
CPS rejects charges against Catholic arrested for 'thought crime' prayers
prosecutors have dismissed charges against a catholic woman arrested for praying silently outside a closed abortion facility. isabel vaughan...
Simon Caldwell
Prayers are more powerful than bullets, Pope tells young on final day in Congo
pope francis has urged the young africans to reject corruption, war and violence on the final day of his visit to congo. “prayer is the most...
Staff Reporter
On Pilgrimage With: Georgina, Duchess of Norfolk
where would you go? almost certainly it would have to be to walsingham, medjugorje and fatima. would you make any special stops? absol...
The Catholic Herald
A salute to the restless genius of Sir Stephen Hough as he takes centre stage at Wigmore Hall
it’s hard to write about the pianist stephen hough, now elevated to the status of sir stephen, without listing his extensive claims to fame ...
Michael White
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