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Housekeeper’s husband officially charged in murder of LA Auxiliary Bishop O’Connell
carlos medina, the suspect in the murder of los angeles auxiliary bishop david o’connell, was arraigned in state court wednesday and formall...
Joe Bukuras
Roald Dahl rewrites: will the Bible be next?
i made the mistake over christmas of letting my kids watch home alone and they have since been rounded up and placed into a young offender’s...
Katherine Bennett
The deeper we enter into Lent the harder we find it - but the rewards are immeasurable
in the fight against injustice, the targets have always been relative to the aim. the suffragettes targeted those denying women the right to...
Katherine Bennett
Laughter is the best medicine in this post-truth world
we know jesus wept, but did he laugh? and if he did, how might that help us in our struggles with the culture wars, and in our attempts...
Gavin Ashenden
Judge dismisses 'thought crime' case against duo who prayed outside abortion clinic
a judge in birmingham has acquitted a catholic priest and a pregnancy counsellor of so-called “thought crimes” after police charged the pair...
Simon Caldwell
Podcast 37: The New Puritans with Andrew Doyle
andrew doyle, the comedian, broadcaster and writer, joins dr gavin ashenden for the 37th episode of merely catholic, the podcast series for ...
The Catholic Herald
<strong>Why are more Christians killed in Nigeria than everywhere else combined?</strong>
“allahu akbar!” shouted a terrorist in spain recently as he wounded a priest and killed a sacristan in broad daylight. god is great, certain...
John Pontifex
'Almost no sign' of international response in Syria
a catholic charity’s projects coordinator reporting from the scene of the devastating earthquakes has said that there is little, if any, evi...
Staff Reporter
Irish teacher's religious objection to gender affirmation backed by the science
enoch burke was originally suspended from his role as a secondary school teacher at wilson’s hospital school in ireland for refusing to reco...
Dualta Roughneen
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
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