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Northern Ireland: London calling

mps haven’t given up on introducing abortion and gay marriage to the region say “the northern ireland problem” to followers of british polit...

Dan Hitchens

Youth Synod: Continental shift

african bishops don’t share their western counterparts’ doom and gloom some general assemblies of the synod of bishops have been more closel...

Christopher R. Altieri

In brief

mundelein us bishops to hold retreat on abuse crisis pope francis’s personal preacher will lead a retreat for american bishops early next ye...

Staff writers

Sense and synodality

as the youth synod entered its final week, there was an air of optimism among the bishops. they had spent almost a month listening to the co...

The Catholic Herald

How to decentralise a Church

since his election in 2013, pope francis has often expressed the desire for a more “synodal” style of church life, and commentators on catho...

Fr Mark Drew

Police launch homicide investigation after bones found at Vatican-owned property

Local media have speculated about links to two girls who disappeared 35 years ago

Christopher R. Altieri

Epicentre of low life and high conversation

soho in the eighties by christopher howse, bloomsbury, 266pp, £20 soho in the 1970s, with its strip joints and steamed-up caffs, was an exci...

Ian Thomson

Henry VIII's master of bureaucracy and propaganda

thomas cromwell: a life by diarmaid macculloch, allen lane, 730pp, £30 this new biography is so prodigiously thorough and clever that it is ...

Jack Scarisbrick

The spiritual intensity of a Suffolk weekend

composers by tradition channel their most serious, abstract thinking into symphonies and string quartets. and though benjamin britten was ne...

Michael White

Dreamy, languid and above all beautiful

the pre-raphaelite artist sir edward burne-jones was once asked by a young girl if he believed the story he had painted in the star of bethl...

David V Barrett

The film Hollywood doesn't want you to see

the name “gosnell” continues to disturb the american psyche. when the nation’s most prolific serial killer appeared before a court, there wa...

KV Turley

Letters & emails

what we can learn from 'slum priests' sir – your inspiring and insightful cover story, “a beautiful answer for ugly times” (october 26), rig...

The Catholic Herald

After cultural Catholicism

when i think about the future of the church in america, i like to close my eyes. when i do, i see marian processions, like the ones held by ...

Brandon McGinley

A reasonable doubt

friends and colleagues of the distinguished lawyer sir louis blom-cooper will have been puzzled by the opening sentence of his recent obitua...

Richard Ingrams

Reformation, decadence and fast cars

i recently took gilda away for a few days in norfolk. gilda’s not my wife, she’s my green mini cooper, and she just loves the open country. ...

Tim Stanley

Despite the Pope's best efforts, the Youth Synod lacked any sense of urgency

The evangelical zeal I've encountered in many young people was missing from the Synod

Fr Raymond de Souza

Vatican cites immunity in refusal to send French court summons to CDF prefect

A French court ordered Cardinal Ladaria to testify over an alleged failure to report abuse

Hannah Brockhaus/CNA

'God has become my light' A Chinese teen’s conversion story

'It is true. It is not only a better theology. It is the true theology'

Courtney Grogan/CNA

Irish voters support daily Angelus broadcast

Over two thirds said they wanted the state broadcaster to continue transmitting the Angelus Bells

Catholic News Agency

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