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What priests and parishes are seeing today
Reports of a “quiet revival” may be difficult to measure, yet lived experience in parishes indicates that more people are seeking meaning, faith and the sacraments
Canon William Agley
Catholic Oxford’s quiet revival
Faith finds new life among students and young families in this university town
Jan C. Bentz
Fasting will save the world
As Lent approaches, Catholics are reminded that fasting is not merely an obligation but a vital spiritual discipline at the heart of Christian life
Clement Harrold
Pope declines to take up young activist's Lenten vegan challenge
pope francis does not appear to have taken up a young environmental activist’s call to observe a vegan lent. the 12-year-old american girl, ...
Flora Watkins
So what if the Nativity story is embellished?
apparently there is some scholarly debate over whether jesus was really born in a stable. close textual analysis, and careful study of the e...
Niall Gooch
Great Books courses are richly rewarding - but they have a fatal flaw
how to keep from losing your mind by deal hudson tan, 384pp, £22/$24.95 in the 1920s, some influential academics were dismayed to find that ...
Joseph Shaw
Did World War II undermine Catholicism?
mass exodus by stephen bullivant oup, 302pp, £25/$32.95 why catholics leave, what they miss, and how they might return by stephen bullivant ...
Joseph Shaw
The Knights of Malta's Mass ban is hardly chivalrous
fra' giacomo dalla torre, the grand master of the order of malta, has informed members that henceforth all masses celebrated in the context ...
Joseph Shaw
Infiltration: an unconvincing tale of the Church's enemies
infiltration: the plot to destroy the catholic church from within by taylor marshall crisis publications 224pp, £19.75/$24.95 in 1846, pope ...
Joseph Shaw
Christians have committed terrible crimes over the centuries. Why is that?
during the siege of jerusalem, at the conclusion of the first crusade in 1099, a priest led devotions on the mount of olives, attended by hu...
Niall Gooch
Ignore the critics. 'It's a Wonderful Life' is a wise tribute to everyday heroism
it’s almost christmas, which means that somewhere a critic is sharpening his pen for that staple of yuletide contrarianism, your beloved fes...
Niall Gooch
How Agatha Christie helped to save the Latin Mass
An unlikely intervention by England’s cultural luminaries rescued the Tridentine Mass from threatened extinction
Joseph Shaw
Bishop Barron says Trump ‘owes the Pope an apology’
Bishop Robert Barron calls President Trump’s comments on Pope Leo “entirely inappropriate”, urging dialogue and saying the president owes an apology
The Catholic Herald
Why Catholic Emancipation still matters
Daniel O’Connell’s peaceful political revolution transformed constitutional life in Britain and beyond, yet its significance is too often overlooked in our historical memory
Andrew Cusack
Heralds of the Gospel ordain 26 priests and 31 deacons
The Heralds of the Gospel ordain 26 priests on Divine Mercy Sunday and 31 deacons the day before, in first ordinations since 2019
The Catholic Herald
Hungary after Orbán
Viktor Orbán’s electoral defeat marks a political turning point, but his legacy and Péter Magyar’s programme resist easy interpretation
Jan C. Bentz
When rebellion loses its object
A provocative collection asks what becomes of a subculture defined by transgression when the mainstream abandons its own rules
Joseph Shaw
Beyond therapy: rediscovering community and Confession
As therapy becomes more widespread, the Church’s sacrament of Confession offers something distinct yet complementary to modern approaches to emotional wellbeing
Delphine Chui
A life in defence of tradition: Michael Davies reconsidered
Leo Darroch’s new biography explores how a schoolteacher became a leading voice in debates over liturgy and doctrine
Joseph Shaw
The return of the patron
A young company seeks to restore the ancient relationship between artist and patron, inviting ordinary people to commission works of lasting beauty
Jan C. Bentz
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