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A heartening moment

last week the pro-life movement savoured one of its most heartening moments in recent years. after a 15-hour debate, the argentine senate re...

The Catholic Herald

The best of the web

✣ highlights from the week online ‘call off the world meeting of families’ robert royal, writing at the catholic thing, said the church ough...

Staff writers

In brief

ottawa bishops: keep palliative care separate from legalised killing canada’s bishops have called for euthanasia and assisted suicide to be ...

Staff writers

Polling: Testament of youth

italians – especially millennials – are becoming more sceptical of the pope pope francis spent much of this past weekend entertaining young ...

Christopher R. Altieri

Dome of Home: Out of the ruins

lottery funding has helped revive a famous merseyside church seven years ago, ss peter, paul and st philomena’s church was closed, leaking a...

Anne Archer

End of an era

what future for benedictine schools after a damning abuse report? downside and ampleforth: even these beautiful names are evocative. they su...

Dan Hitchens

Abuse crisis: Only the beginning

as more allegations emerge in the us, bishops clash over the shape of a future inquiry cardinal donald wuerl succeeded theodore mccarrick as...

Michael Warren Davis

France: The clerical migration crisis

african dioceses are increasingly reluctant to send priests to europe when fr joseph longo arrived in france from the democratic republic of...

Jonathan Luxmoore

Diary: by Andrew M Brown

"soft refreshing rain” – those words popped into my head when the first thunderstorms of this summer broke. as in the hymn: we plough the fi...

Andrew M Brown

Fr Raymond J de Souza: The erased encyclical

last week, on the 25th anniversary of veritatis splendor , i looked at how st john paul’s encyclical of 1993 took up the challenges created ...

Fr Raymond de Souza

The new idea of a university

there is a heatwave, and it is clear that victorian buildings, however beautiful, are not ideal places in which to work in such weather. the...

John Charmley

A truce that cannot hold

too many catholic leaders have treated archbishop theodore mccarrick’s alleged crimes as an isolated issue. cardinal donald wuerl told an in...

Matthew Schmitz

Just the thought made me sweat

in hindsight it was inevitable. but at the time i couldn’t think of anything more calamitous than becoming catholic. i was studying at an an...

Tyler Blankski

The freedom to be unfashionable

jacob rees-mogg put the matter in a balanced – if somewhat orotund – way: he did not consider that a burka added to any woman’s “pulchritude...

Mary Kenny

The pope that England made

it had never happened before and has never happened since. on november 11, 1417, a pope was selected largely thanks to the efforts of the en...

John Whitehead

Comments of the week

letters should include a genuine postal or email address, phone number and the style or title of the writer. email: letters@catholicherald.c...

The Catholic Herald

Rock stars who can’t leave the faith behind

"pope francis is a true rock star.” who says? an actual rock star. sting, formerly of the police, attended a general audience recently and w...

Michael Duggan

Music: The quartet with a boy band’s swagger

no one has ever come up with a convincing explanation of what makes a conductor and an orchestra a good fit; but when the chemistry works, y...

Michael White

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