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The big story of the past seven days
✣ vatican breaks silence on mccarrick case what happened? pope francis has ordered a “thorough study” of vatican files relating to archbisho...
Staff writers
First Synod reports focus on abuse and sexuality
The reports were also unanimous in calling for a final document that is more biblically based
Cindy Wooden
The best of the web
✣ highlights from the week online verifying the bones of st ambrose a forensic team has analysed the relics of 4th-century st ambrose. grego...
Staff writers
In brief
philadelphia keep ‘lgbtq’ out of church documents, says archbishop archbishop charles chaput of philadelphia has told the youth synod that “...
Staff writers
Papal telescopes: Heavens above
the vatican observatory is being opened up to the public when people ask why the vatican has an observatory, one jesuit priest says it’s bec...
Carol Glatz
Civil partnerships: Untying the knot
are the conservatives still the pro-marriage party? of all the parties across the political spectrum, the conservative party has always been...
Simon Caldwell
Lay investigation: Reporting on Their Eminences
catholics are divided by the prospect of an inquiry into the college of cardinals few would deny that this is the worst crisis the american ...
Michael Warren Davis
Cartoon: by Kipper Williams
The Catholic Herald
India: Bishops on trial
out of nowhere, catholics face a leadership crisis on two fronts the catholic church in india has just faced one of the most challenging sum...
Saptarshi Ray
Diary: by Melissa Kite
ageism may be the last great prejudice our society deigns to address, if indeed it ever gets around to it. this occurred to me as i sat in a...
Melissa Kite
Synod highlights: Major interventions from Week One
from pope francis’s opening speech: the synod we are living is a moment of sharing. i wish, therefore, at the beginning of the synod assembl...
The Catholic Herald
The elephant in the synod
amid procedural changes and doctrinal tension, one issue hangs over this month’s meeting in rome hilaire belloc once remarked that the catho...
Christopher R. Altieri
Fr Raymond J de Souza: Right saint, wrong place
i will be in rome for the canonisation of blessed oscar romero this sunday, but i wish i weren’t – in rome, that is. i would have preferred ...
Fr Raymond de Souza
When the Old Mass came to Balham
st bede’s has become one of london’s great liturgical churches. the departing parish priest explains how it all began st bede’s church, clap...
Stuart Reid
The synod is all too respectable
when pope francis was elected five years ago, he announced that he wanted to build a “poor church for the poor”. at the synod on youth takin...
Matthew Schmitz
Science and faith: Sometimes, looks really are everything
some years ago i was leading a marketing project using large newspaper advertisements to solicit eager responses from readers. i consulted t...
Quentin de la Bedoyere
Two witty guides to canals and crocodiles
one of the most uplifting tv series is back on the box for an autumn season: timothy west and prunella scales’s great canal journeys (channe...
Mary Kenny
‘Ireland is led by fools'
john waters’s career in irish journalism lasted for more than 30 highly successful years before he quit what he thinks has become an “ideolo...
Michael Duggan
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
How friendly rivalry gave rise to beauty
mantegna and bellini offer an exquisite game of spot the difference, says daisy dunn mary clings to her tightly swaddled son in mantegna’s p...
Daisy Dunn
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