Get 3 months of unlimited digital access for just $3
Subscribe today and get your first 3 months for just $3. Cancel at any time.
Subscribe
Search
Newsletters
Newsletters
Chapter House
Latest
Sign In
Log Out
Subscribe
Sign In
Log Out
Subscribe
Sign Out
About
Our History
Contact
Sections
Latest
Chapter House
Columns
Life
Soul
Culture
Vatican Dispatch
Archives
Historic Archive
Exact Editions
More
Newsroom
Magazine
Magnificat
Latest Issue
latest feed
Who creates better characters: Marvel or Scorsese?
i recently read a review by dan sanchez of martin scorsese’s the irishman (netflix), “why the marvel movies are better than scorsese's the i...
Deal Hudson
Chesterton's Christmas poems were mediocre – but his prose dazzles
the author most associated with the joy and glow of christmas is obviously charles dickens. apart from the perennially popular christmas car...
Joseph Pearce
Letters: The modern heresy exposed by terror
the modern heresy exposed by terror sir – in his searching article “can jihadists be rehabilitated?” (december 6), tim stanley says: “many o...
The Catholic Herald
How a mediæval carol was saved from obscurity
a young woman is singing her baby to sleep, crooning words of tenderness: “lullay mine liking, my dear son, my sweeting; lullay my dear hear...
Eleanor Parker
The next English saint could well be a woman
unless pope francis decides to canonise one or more of the 158 english and welsh martyrs beatified by his predecessors, but never raised to ...
Simon Caldwell
The joys of Boxing Day football
i have no idea what we will give our children for christmas, but i know what they have given me over the years – a fascination with sport, w...
Andrew M Brown
Prisoners, exiles and missionaries: the bishops Elizabeth deposed
between 1534 and 1554, there were two people claiming to be bishop of worcester and two to be bishop of salisbury; and between 1559 and 1585...
Jack Scarisbrick
National Gallery director Gabriele Finaldi: 'Catholicism is an image tradition'
gabriele finaldi and i are speaking on the phone so i can’t see the painting he is describing, but i start to feel that i too love titian’s ...
The Catholic Herald
Christmas quiz
the following questions are presented as crossword clues. some, including the one that appears three times, have more than one possible answ...
Nick Thomas
Like physicists, we're looking for a theory of everything
it was gratifying to learn that my favourite delicacy as a child, caramel-coated popcorn called cracker jack, is still being sold. each box ...
Fr George Rutler
I grew up in Mum and Dad's sweetshop. It was as magical as it sounds
christmas, as we know, is a time for reflection: a chance to recall years gone by, and to wallow for a few precious hours in our own remembr...
Michael Simkins
Both English and cosmopolitan: the glory of Farm Street Church
this has been an anniversary year for the jesuits’ church at farm street in london – july 31 marked the 175th anniversary of the laying of t...
Stephen Withnell
Digital detoxes rarely work. Here are ten things that do
i wonder how many people will wake up on christmas morning to find some new piece of tech in their stocking? i won’t, and not just because i...
Sister Catherine Wybourne
Gavin Ashenden: Why I'm becoming a Catholic
in the early 1980s, as a young anglican priest i became a smuggler. i crossed the iron curtain with bibles, books and medicines for orthodox...
The Catholic Herald
Traffic jams, Christmas trees and banana beer: December in Kinshasa
christmas is in the air in kinshasa. giant illuminated christmas trees stand in front of hotels and big supermarkets owned by indian, lebane...
Antoine Roger Lokongo
Democracy is in retreat – but heroic activists are emerging
jesus christ was a refugee who grew up to become a dissident. of course he is much more than that – he is god incarnate, emmanuel – but as w...
Benedict Rogers
Milan Kundera and the long argument with 'home'
it has been a long road back: the author milan kundera, perhaps the most famous living czech, recently had his citizenship restored to him a...
Jenny McCartney
'The ways deep, the weather sharp': A journey in the Magi's footsteps
as a child i found it hard to believe that the world east of bethlehem was real at all. this was a region where fire might fall from heaven ...
Peter Hitchens
The undefeated light: Joseph Ratzinger on the true meaning of Christmas
this christmas reflection by joseph ratzinger was first published in the bavarian catholic journal hochland (1959/60: 97–100). it has been t...
The Catholic Herald
The Christmas liturgy takes us to the centre of time
even if the celebration of many masses on the same sunday may be an ordinary experience for many parish priests too often, christmas, with i...
The Catholic Herald
Previous
Next
subscribe to the catholic herald today
Our best content is exclusively available to our subscribers. Subscribe today and gain instant access to expert analysis, in-depth articles, and thought-provoking insights—anytime, anywhere. Don’t miss out on the conversations that matter most.
Subscribe
