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How to… Pray the Newman novena
among the preparations for the forthcoming canonisation of blessed john henry newman on october 13 is a special novena, or nine days of pray...
The Catholic Herald
What the Amazon synod document gets wrong about Creation
the summer afforded me several opportunities to see the sea. two new grief to grace sites, in perth and on the côte d’azur, were near the in...
Fr Dominic Allain
Small sins lead to bigger sins – go to Confession
as i’ve already written a piece about the collect for the 25th ordinary sunday in the past, i’ll intrude on bishop mcgough’s turf and commen...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Understanding the puzzling tale of the dishonest steward
the 25th sunday of the year amos 8:4-7; 1 tim 2:1-8; lk 16:1-13 (year c) the prophet amos, who confronted the extravagant excesses of israel...
Bishop David McGough
Is Christianity better sung than said?
music and faith by jonathan arnold boydell, 288pp, £30/$40 few readers of this magazine would, i imagine, challenge the idea that music is a...
Michael White
William Blake review: a strangely utilitarian portrait of a visionary
william blake lies in bunhill fields cemetery in london, a couple of hundred yards away from the catholic herald’s office. his grave was rec...
David V Barrett
The magical thinking of WB Yeats
william butler yeats (1865-1939) is one of the most celebrated poets in english. and one of the most difficult to talk about in relation to ...
Francis O’Gorman
Letters: Do English Catholics still cherish Our Lady?
sir – nowadays one rarely sees saturday masses of our lady in parishes. masses celebrated on saturday are mostly vigils of the sunday, and e...
The Catholic Herald
Marx's revolutionary synod
in the 1940s, a jesuit theologian named henri bouillard proclaimed that a theology that is not “up to date” is a “false theology”. at such a...
C C Pecknold
My neighbour, 'the dad who gave birth'
earlier this month, bbc two showed a documentary called seahorse: the dad who gave birth, which was made in deal, kent, where i dwell (the d...
Mary Kenny
The Polish Church is under attack, but it is standing firm
poland’s bishops recently commemorated the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the second world war with their german counterparts. their sh...
Jonathan Luxmoore
Forget 'kiddie music', children love plainchant
in epiphany parish, where i’m the parochial administrator, reports are streaming in of children chanting kyrie eleisons while playing with t...
Fr Michael Rennier
Newman's profoundly subversive advice for Christian politicians
is a christian who believes that abortion is wrong in every case or that marriage can only be between a man and a woman suitable for public ...
Jack Valero
Two very different Catholics battle to be Canada's PM
canadians are famous for saying sorry. it’s the default setting for public encounters; a busy railway station or airport is a cacophony of c...
Fr Raymond de Souza
Why is the Church not standing up for parental rights?
across the world, parents are engaged in battles with local and national governments over their right to decide how sex education is taught ...
David Paton
Diary: England's best new work of sacred art for years
as someone who is wading very slowly towards a dphil in the history of art and architecture, i get to spend rather a lot of time thinking ab...
Stephen Withnell
German media accuse Francis of 'stabbing bishops in the back'
a vatican cardinal’s warning that plans for a binding synodal process in germany appear to be “ecclesiologically invalid” and not in accorda...
Anian Christoph Wimmer
How America embraced Newman
the recent news that the bishop of northampton has declined to move forward with the cause for the canonisation of gk chesterton was not wel...
Joseph Pearce
Britain will be judged by the way it treats Tafida
last week the high court heard the tragic case of tafida raqeeb, now aged five, who suffered a devastating intracranial bleed on february 9 ...
The Catholic Herald
Are deacons really 'celebrating Mass' in the Amazon?
sandro magister, the veteran vaticanista for italy’s l’espresso, wrote a column last week headlined “in the amazon married deacons are alrea...
Christopher R. Altieri
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