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More channel migrants is not the Christian response
a few weeks ago, at the checkout of a department store close to the seafront in dover, i overheard a mildly alarming exchange between the pe...
Niall Gooch
Vatican treats for the Christmas table
those wonderful boys in the swiss guard have done it again. after the vatican cookbook of 2016, which must by now surely be in every catholi...
Alicia Godfrey
Westminster's plans for more abortions in Northern Ireland
eamon martin, archbishop of armagh and primate of all-ireland, has rejected an announcement by secretary of state chris heaton-harris to fas...
Dubhaltach O Reachtnin
Census 2021: the hidden threat to church and state
the shift in religious and christian allegiance within the population was always predicted to arrive around about now, and here it is. sudde...
Gavin Ashenden
Anger and Courage: Sheila Hollins and the response to the Church's sexual abuse scandal
photo: baroness hollins and colleagues working on the vatican abuse commission the catholic union’s annual craigmyle lecture was delivered o...
Hugh Kerr
The profound and insightful mind of Peter Kreeft
few, if any, catholic philosophers are as prolific as the american professor, peter kreeft. over the course of his 85 years, 57 as a profess...
Ken Craycraft
Jesuit artist Father Rupnik has been practising ministry despite Vatican restrictions
a prominent jesuit priest has been continuing to practise his ministry despite the fact that it was restricted by the vatican in january 202...
Mark Lambert
Worth the wait: Piero’s "Nativity" unveiled in all its glory
after three years of painstaking work, piero della francesca’s famous nativity , from the early 1480s, has returned to public display in the...
Hugh Kerr
How emperors protected the Papacy from bad popes and created Western Civilization
in the december issue, piers paul read reminded readers of the times when christianity was persecuted. this is not untimely, given the re-co...
James Bogle
Church and state's uneasy relationship
the coercive power of the state is found from the start of the story of our salvation; it’s in the nativity story itself and the feasts that...
Piers Paul Read
The Irish Church: saints and sinners
"writers are often loners; journalists are sociable.” so says mary kenny, but in self-identifying as gregarious journalist rather than intro...
Dr Roy Foster
All in the best possible taste
catholica: the visual culture of catholicism suzanna ivanič thames & hudson, £25, 256 pages the visual has always held a special place i...
Miles Pattenden
Lady Susan Hussey was no threat to Ngozi Fulani
about 6 months ago i was asked by my nigerian friend father m if i would take part in an online conversation about faith in the public squar...
Katherine Bennett
Census 2021 and Newman's 'age of infidelity'
christians are now well into the season of advent, the time of preparation for christmas, the feast of the nativity of jesus christ. this wa...
Simon Caldwell
The kingdom of heaven is at hand: spending Advent well
“may the lord be in your heart and help you to confess your sins with true sorrow.” what prevents us from doing that? we won’t confess our s...
Fr Mark Vickers
On Pilgrimage With: Julian Fellowes
where would you go? i have long cherished a near-obsessive desire to see petra, the rose-red city half as old as time. last month, i am happ...
The Catholic Herald
Scion of distinguished recusant family
sir simon towneley died on 11 november, aged 100. he was the first catholic to be lord lieutenant of lancashire, in which office he served f...
The Catholic Herald
Priest who opened Newman up to the world
fr ian turnbull ker, the leading scholar on the life and work of st john henry newman, died on 5 november. a brilliant writer and biographer...
The Catholic Herald
God with us
the prophecy of isaiah 7 must be one of the most famous in the old testament. “the maiden is with child, and will soon give birth to a son w...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP
Music on the Moors
it’s hard to see these days, but scratched into a wall at exeter cathedral is the name of a composer who was born four centuries ago this ye...
Michael White
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