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Diary: by Peter Hitchens

the more i write about britain’s moral, educational and cultural decline, the more i run up against that decline in action. for the past few...

Peter Hitchens

A land of Catholic heroes

fr alphonse l’heureux, a trappist monk living in china, was tortured to death by chinese soldiers from the marxist side of the civil war in ...

Dan Hitchens

China’s brutal crackdown

amid new rumours of a deal with the holy see, persecution of christians is at its highest level since the cultural revolution reports emerge...

Benedict Rogers

Fr Raymond J de Souza: Benedict is silent – but he still speaks

pope emeritus benedict xvi gave his final september speech last week in rome. benedict didn’t give the speech himself. his private secretary...

Fr Raymond de Souza

How Padre Pio changed my life

night after night, i felt a strange presence in my room. when i realised what it was, i knew i had to become catholic on september 23 we com...

Fr Alan Robinson

The home-care timebomb

there is an nhs advertisement orbiting social media at present. it features an image of a high-heeled shoe and a tube of red lipstick next t...

Madeleine Teahan

A recipe for relationship failure

once you’ve seen channel 4’s naked attraction , you can’t unsee it. a contestant is presented with six boxes containing six naked people. th...

Tim Stanley

It’s good manners we need, not more laws

i find it impossible to support the campaign, led by the labour mp stella creasy, to make misogyny a “hate crime”. how do you define misogyn...

Mary Kenny

‘It’s given people hope again’

composer sir james macmillan has seen the fortunes of his home town improve. luckily, it’s a perfect place for music driving into the west o...

David Oldroyd-Bolt

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

Arts essay: A masterpiece for a Church mired in scandal

tintoretto helps us fix our eyes on what truly matters, says bishop robert barron i was in washington dc last week for meetings of the unite...

Bishop Robert Barron

Music: Songs of Darkness light up Last Night

the last night of the proms is always a bizarre event. the best-known concert in the world, it mixes melancholia with craziness as a finale ...

Michael White

Horror films know nothing about nuns

sister janet fearns says screenwriters have a lot to learn about the supernatural one moonlit night in autumn 1976, i was wearing the full-l...

Sister Janet Fearns

The dilemma of dealing with North Korea

can you change the country without changing the regime, asks david alton talking to north korea by glyn ford, pluto press, 320pp, £14.99 the...

David Alton

A double dose of doppelgängers

mark lawson on this month’s best crime fiction fittingly, there are two new thrillers about doppelgängers, although, proving the adaptabilit...

Mark Lawson

A materialist reflects on the mystery of suicide

can darwinism help us grasp this uniquely human tendency, asks alex defert a very human ending by jesse bering, doubleday, 288pp, £16.99 the...

Alex Defert

Omnium Gatherum

let’s begin with holy writ: “ lawyer asked a question, to test him. ‘teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?’ and he said to him...

Fr John Zuhlsdorf

Cardinal Marx admits Church made mistakes and calls for change after German abuse report

The Church lacked attentiveness, sensitivity and love, the cardinal said

Zita Ballinger Fletcher

Word this week

the 25th sunday of the year wis 2:12 & 17-20; jas 3:16-4:3; mk 9:30-37 (year b) “where do these wars and battles between yourselves firs...

Bishop David McGough

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