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A ‘demonic’ regime
when cardinal leopoldo brenes heard that paramilitaries had surrounded a basilica in the city of diriamba, he dropped everything and rushed ...
The Catholic Herald
The big story of the past seven days
✣ cardinal’s aide arrested for alleged child abuse what happened? the former chancellor of the archdiocese of santiago, chile, was arrested ...
Staff writers
The best of the web
✣ highlights from the week online cleared of murder – then hugged by a pope amaury coutansais-pervinquière told the incredible story of toma...
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In brief
lansing, michigan consecrated virgins ‘shocked’ by new vatican rules the us association of consecrated virgins has said it is “deeply disapp...
Staff writers
Religious education report is an ‘attack’ on Catholic schools
The Bishop of Leeds said the report was 'unacceptable'
Staff Reporter
The Vatican: When churches convert
the vatican is drawing up guidelines for the sale of deconsecrated buildings does not god dwell here anymore? that is the question a confere...
Christopher R. Altieri
Britain: Education - an inspector calls
the ofsted head’s latest speech won’t allay the concerns of faith schools "the last thing a chief inspector should be is a crusader.” so sai...
Dan Hitchens
United States: Courtroom drama
is brett kavanaugh the man who will finally bring down roe? "vibrant” is a curious way to describe the catholic community in washington dc. ...
Michael Warren Davis
Central African Republic: An eye for an eye
as a spirit of revenge spreads, the bishops renew their call for peace when a senior priest was shot dead in the central african republic, t...
Jonathan Luxmoore
Armenia: Rioting over a relic
why the lance of longinus is at the centre of a national controversy the armenian apostolic church, part of oriental orthodoxy, was the worl...
Mark Greaves
Diary: by Harry Mount
why do british men wear socks and jackets during the intense heat? after years of sweating through summer parties, i’ve made a breakthrough ...
Harry Mount
When ‘no change’ changed everything
for the philosopher ralph mcinerny, 1968 was “the year the church fell apart”. for peter steinfels, it saw the beginning of “the vietnam war...
Stephen Bullivant
Fr Raymond J de Souza: A date with history
regular readers will know that i keep an eye out for anniversaries, and the coincidence of historical dates. the liturgy itself points us th...
Fr Raymond de Souza
Chapter & Verse: Brideshead re-edited
brideshead revisited , published in 1945, was evelyn waugh’s first explicitly catholic novel. it lost him, he wrote later, “such esteem” as ...
Allan Massie
A Picnic that’s gone stale
joan lindsay’s 1967 mystery novel picnic at hanging rock , adapted for film by peter weir in 1975, is now a mini-series playing on amazon vi...
Matthew Schmitz
This September, seek a new heart
the days of the eucharistic congress, adoremus, are going to be a time of special grace for the catholic church in england and wales. i urge...
Cardinal Vincent Nichols
How pride became a virtue
if someone were to produce a word count of one of the most overused words in our language today, i imagine that the word “pride” would come ...
Mary Kenny
The monks who have to be beer snobs
sir alec guinness reminisced in his memoirs about a visit he made to mount st bernard abbey in 1957, a year after his conversion to the cath...
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: Mary’s dramatic life needs no embellishment
we may think that parliament can be a little fractious these days, but we are pale shadows of our tudor forebears. in 1586 job throckmorton,...
Jonathan Wright
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