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Religious freedom: Travel ban

a ban on adverts from religious groups on public transport in dc has been upheld last tuesday, the us court of appeals for the district of c...

Michael Warren Davis

US abuse scandal: An unprecedented move

the names of 71 accused clergy have been released by their bishop on thursday, bishop ronald gainer of harrisburg released a list of 71 cler...

Michael Warren Davis

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Desperate measures

a congolese cardinal is resisting calls to run for president last month a coalition of catholic groups in the democratic republic of the con...

Jonathan Luxmoore

Pakistan: Meet the new boss

the new leader promises change. but christians aren’t celebrating yet in a televised speech made after his victory in pakistan’s elections, ...

John Pontifex

Bishop McKnight condemns ‘the silence of so many bishops’ who knew about McCarrick

The Bishop of Jefferson City called for a 'change of culture among the clergy'

Staff Reporter

Diary: by Petroc Trelawny

it’s 50 years this month since the soviet union abruptly ended the prague spring. on august 21, 1968 alexander dubček’s newly introduced lib...

Petroc Trelawny

How Walsingham began

england’s greatest shrine of our lady, one among almost 100 in medieval times when devotion to our lady was at its height, began in 1061 as ...

Fr Michael Rear

‘It’s a bit like being a paramedic’

Armitage has a track record in building institutions and the bishops wanted someone who could develop England’s national Marian shrine

Mark Greaves

Fr Raymond J de Souza: Two teachers of moral truth

august 6th is probably the most common date of secular significance put to homiletic use. preachers for that day’s feast of the transfigurat...

Fr Raymond de Souza

A show where nobody’s hands are clean

the bestest character in narcos (netflix) is judy moncada, the wife of a drug kingpin. she’s got class, she’s got diamonds, she’s got a pain...

Tim Stanley

‘She will always be 20’

for des mclindon, august 1968 is “just a haze”. yet as his mind spools back half a century, there are pictures, pieces of memory of a partic...

Simon Hart

Science and faith: Nudges and the Nobel

the benedictine asked his abbot for permission to smoke while he was praying. not only was this refused but he was punished for even asking....

Quentin de la Bedoyere

Thai cave boys give a lesson in gratitude

one of the most striking photographs of the week was that showing the young thai boys – so courageously rescued from that perilous cave – at...

Mary Kenny

A curriculum to reflect who we are

in 1905, one miss agnew sat at her desk in carlisle and sketched out the “scheme of instruction” for the poor catholic boys and girls of st ...

Michael Merrick

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

Music: Youth and experience in the Swiss mountains

gala concerts can be self-indulgent, over-long, and a complete dog’s dinner when it comes to repertoire. but they can also be extraordinary ...

Michael White

Film: Secular sermonising gets Francis all wrong

did you know that pope francis is the head of a global humanitarian organisation dedicated principally to saving “mother earth”? this is the...

KV Turley

A new approach unlocks the Russian enigma

the tragedy of property by maxim trudolyubov, polity, 226pp, £17.99 in the mid 1990s i did a stint in the bbc’s moscow bureau. it was high s...

Robin Aitken

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