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Vatican: The halo boom
is it too soon to canonise 20th-century popes? while they live, all popes are styled “holiness”. the mode of address is a sort of “official”...
Christopher R. Altieri
Britain: Three days of devotion
the eucharistic congress is a landmark event. but how many will be there to see it? a major moment in the life of the english and welsh chur...
Mark Greaves
Viganò letter: After the explosion
the former nuncio’s intervention will change the american church on saturday, the national catholic register published a “testimony” written...
Michael Warren Davis
Walk this way
does a boom in pilgrimages signal a religious revival? that’s doubtful above the northern french town of lisieux, a vast white basilica rise...
Jonathan Luxmoore
Diary: by Andrew Cusack
near la sapienza in rome – the modern campus of an old university – there is a church dedicated to an english philosopher, statesman and mar...
Andrew Cusack
John Paul I: How the Catholic Herald saw him
september 1, 1978 the more we get to know pope john paul the more we like him. he was first described as the unknown pope but this merely go...
The Catholic Herald
Remembering the forgotten pope
we still don’t know much about john paul i, who was elected – and died – forty years ago forty years ago this week, cardinal albino luciani ...
Damian Thompson
Fr Raymond J de Souza: A diplomat sparks a war
the blistering indictment of pope francis by archbishop carlo maria viganò, published while the holy father was on a difficult trip to irela...
Fr Raymond de Souza
Archbishop of chaos
archbishop ngô đình thục left havoc in his wake, both in vietnamese politics and the spanish-speaking church it’s 1981 and the penitents of ...
Ned Donovan
Confessions of a ‘new ultramontane’
it is distressing to contemplate how much influence journalists have on catholic life, but in truth this has long been the case. the furious...
Matthew Schmitz
Science and faith: How not to be manipulated
no, i do not intend to write about brexit, but i am interested in the decision-making process taken before the referendum. i wanted to make ...
Quentin de la Bedoyere
The crimes Ireland hasn’t faced
during pope francis’s visit to ireland last weekend, comparisons were repeatedly drawn between the huge numbers who attended events at john ...
Mary Kenny
The root of the abuse crisis
why is the church still struggling to get a grip on a scandal that emerged decades ago? surveying the ravaged landscape of the church today,...
Christopher R. Altieri
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: The child prodigy who fled the world
the lives of the saints are replete with stories of notorious sinners who became exemplars of catholicism. few, though, are so unusual as th...
David Oldroyd-Bolt
Music: Simon Rattle delivers a Ravel suite to die for
i’ve long thought that, should there be a full-sized symphony orchestra to hand, i’d happily die to the closing section of ravel’s mother go...
Michael White
Comic books: The monastic spirit of a fabled island
in the past few hundred years, countless medieval legends and myths have been shoved off to the side, “disproven” by modern historians and s...
Philip Kosloski
Cupich dismisses Viganò claims as a 'rabbit hole'
The cardinal said that Pope Francis 'has got to get on with other things, of talking about the environment'
Catholic News Agency
Retrieving the glory of the Middle Ages
royal books and holy bones by eamon duffy, bloomsbury, £25 there are historians – and then there is eamon duffy. this book resoundingly demo...
Dominic Selwood
Heroes and villains of the opioid crisis
dopesick by beth macy, apollo, 384pp, £20 in 1895, heroin was readily available at any american drug store or by mail order. babies were fre...
Matt Thorne
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