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The homophobic bullying dilemma

homophobic bullying plainly exists and is contrary to the teaching of the church – so what could be wrong with a document on combatting it? ...

Dan Hitchens

Matthew Walter: What Anglicans get right about angels

theologically speaking, the stock of the angels in the church has been falling pretty steadily since its berkshire hathaway-like peak in the...

Matthew Walther

China’s Catholics long for new era of healing

when china’s last empire, the qing dynasty, ended in 1911, christianity there entered what many scholars call the “golden age” of the missio...

Anthony E Clark

‘They think I don’t know anything’

the salesian house of studies has not changed much since it was built on a hong kong hillside in the 1930s. but the city around it has alter...

Megan Griffiths

Melanie McDonagh: The heavy burden of forgiveness

the death of the moors murderer ian brady hasn’t brought out the best in us, has it? “monster of the moors is dead” is the daily mail headli...

Melanie McDonagh

Lib Dem leader abandons anti-abortion stance after Guardian questioning

Tim Farron had previously said abortions were too widely available and called for restrictions

Nick Hallett

Northern Ireland’s buried secrets

forty-five years is a long time to wait for anything. yet the family of joe lynskey, missing since 1972, has not given up on finding his bod...

Claire McGowan

The Inquisition, minus the torture

first it was tim farron and then andrew turner. there are a few trifling things for the world to worry about, such as the war in syria, star...

Ann Widdecombe

The Muslim community that rejects violence

in february i accepted an invitation to a “national peace symposium” at a mosque in morden, to be held the following month. nobody at the ti...

Neil Addison

Does Fido have a soul? That’s the wrong question

informed catholics are likely to dismiss the animal rights protesters who stormed a church in italy earlier this year, demanding that the ch...

Carmody Grey

The art of raising 15 children – alone

when i get in touch with rosa pich by skype during holy week, i discover that she is on holiday with 12 of her children in torreciudad, a sh...

Jack Valero

Mary Kenny: What the NHS can learn from Ireland’s recovery

i once asked a free-market economist how he would analyse the irish famine, which is sometimes seen as an example of too much free trade: wh...

Mary Kenny

Comments of the week

jesus would have agreed with corbyn sir – in his notebook (may 5), stephen daisley of the scottish daily mail dismisses jeremy corbyn’s labo...

The Catholic Herald

Why modern Christians need cathedrals

arriving in durham late one march afternoon, i realised that if i was quick i could just make evensong at the cathedral. it was well worth t...

Niall Gooch

Television: This is the perfect comedy for 2017

i have to say a word in defence of all round to mrs brown’s , the bbc one series that has just ended (but can be found on iplayer). leftie c...

Tim Stanley

Film: Redgrave’s secret scripture has little to reveal

jim sheridan’s handsome yet flimsy melodrama the secret scripture ( ★★ , cert 12a, 109 mins) turns out to be a tale of two actresses, one gr...

Mike McCahill

Music: Dresden culture palace rises from the ashes

given how little money there is these days to keep serious music up and running, it’s remarkable that wherever you go in the world somebody’...

Michael White

Theatre: Sam Mendes’s IRA drama is a triumph

the moment the royal court announced it was staging jez butterworth’s the ferryman , the whole season sold out and a west end transfer was g...

Robert Tanitch

The unheeded prophets of the abortion wars

defenders of the unborn by daniel williams, oup, £23 daniel williams’s defenders of the unborn is a fascinating, revealing and even-handed a...

Piers Shepherd

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