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hobbs, new mexico virgin mary statue is ‘weeping olive oil’ a seven-foot bronze statue of the virgin mary appears to be weeping tears compos...

Staff writers

Accountability at the Vatican: Special treatment

the mccarrick case has revealed a defect in the system if the allegations against cardinal theodore mccarrick are true, they represent a mic...

Christopher R. Altieri

British schools: Can Catholic RE survive?

a new challenge to the bishops’ authority in the last few years a series of reports have called for major reforms to religious education. th...

Andy Lewis

Dallas Charter: Back to the drawing board

do the current child protection norms need a radical overhaul? the scandal of cardinal theodore mccarrick’s alleged abuse has just become ev...

Michael Warren Davis

Consecrated virgins: Body and soul

the vatican has caused alarm by saying consecrated virgins need not be virgins since 1970, when the rite of consecration of virgins was rein...

Dan Hitchens

Diary: by Fr Michael Ward

to birmingham, to be ordained priest. the car journey north from my home in the suburbs of oxford starts out by taking me past newman road i...

Fr Michael Ward

Forty years of clashing with the Church

a famous leftist revolutionary, hoping to shore up electoral support, backs a strict pro-life law. a government minister genuflects in front...

Dan Hitchens

Bishops on the barricades

shaky video footage shows priests processing with the blessed sacrament through the low-walled streets of sébaco. this is no ordinary day in...

Miguel Cullen

Fr Raymond J de Souza: A millennial problem

is pope francis, like donald trump, guilty of abject capitulation to russia’s vladimir putin? that question was raised by one of the most re...

Fr Raymond de Souza

Catholic history isn’t just Thomas More

we are standing on london bridge and i am waving my arms about describing a saxon-viking battle that took place there about 60 years before ...

Joanna Bogle

When Catholics feel betrayed

why on earth do we stay in a church in which clerics commit sexual abuse? the easiest answer is realism. we tell ourselves that some sexual ...

Tim Stanley

Beyond the parish

throughout all the years of my involvement with the church, the parish has been taken as the crucial ecclesial institution. talk to almost a...

Bishop Robert Barron

How not to get rich

losing your religion can be good for your wealth, claims a new study carried out by the universities of bristol and tennessee. it argues tha...

Mary Kenny

Three children killed under Belgium's euthanasia law

The children are the first to die by lethal injection since Belgium changed the law in 2014

Simon Caldwell

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 good man who was so nearly Catholic

in one of those gorgeous verbal doodles with which he filled the pages of his absorbing (and at the time quite illegal) wartime journal, hug...

Matthew Walther

Music: Knussen’s Fireworks light up the Proms

given how far in advance concert schedules get fixed, it’s good to know that things can sometimes happen on the spur of the moment – as they...

Michael White

A walk through the ‘side passages’ of religion

city of the good by michael bell, princeton, 360pp, £25 i like it when a book opens with an epiphany. michael bell, a sociology professor at...

Michael Duggan

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