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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
The growing worldwide threat to confessional secrecy
the australian state of victoria has passed a new mandatory reporting law, which does not respect the seal of the confessional. the bill had...
Christopher R. Altieri
World news: from St Paul to Salta
st paul, minnesota first abuse investigation under new bishops’ law an archbishop will investigate cover-up allegations against a local bish...
Staff writers
The week in quotations
"i sensed that this thought came to me from the holy spirit" pope francis explains why he decided to give a relic of st peter to the eastern...
Staff writers
Meanwhile: Abba inside the Vatican, 'Day of Sobriety'
you might imagine that vatican officials would only listen to monteverdi and palestrina. but archbishop paul gallagher, the holy see’s forei...
Staff writers
The best of the web: Chinese demolitions, forgotten conservative thinker, Amazon synod protests
in china, 18 months of demolition at asia news, fr bernardo cervellera summarised the situation of chinese catholics. it includes “churches ...
Staff writers
The week ahead: Vatican documentary, Order's bicentenary, St Vincent de Paul
on friday, september 20 and 27, at 9pm, bbc two will broadcast a two-part documentary about the vatican. inside the vatican will look at the...
Staff Reporter
Overlooked: Doctor acquitted in Dutch euthanasia case
what happened? a dutch doctor has been acquitted after slipping a sedative into a patient’s coffee and then giving her a lethal injection. t...
Staff writers
The big story: Pope Francis: 'I'm not afraid of schism'
what happened? pope francis has raised the prospect of schism, telling reporters that it is a constant possibility in the church. answering ...
Staff writers
A schism in the US? What Pope Francis really thinks
it all began with a book. on the papal plane to africa, the french journalist nicolas senèze gave the holy father a copy of his latest work....
The Catholic Herald
September 20, 2019
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Why thousands of children have never heard of the Good Samaritan
once a year, in january, i sit around a table with an eclectic group that includes chris bryant, the labour mp, anna sapir abulafia, profess...
Cristina Odone
Our cultural roots are in Latin and Greek
teenagers are studying latin in large numbers. some 7,000 pupils took the gcse this year, 150 more than in 2018, according to the exam board...
Alexander Jolliffe
What role should the clergy play in a Catholic education?
in david lodge’s 2001 novel thinks, the protagonist helen reed muses on her catholic schooling: “i’m deeply grateful that i had a catholic e...
The Catholic Herald
Leading Catholic school headmaster: 'Boys will turn off if you patronise them'
every year the london oratory school, a boys’ academy which takes girls at sixth form, has 1,000 applicants from across london for the 160 p...
The Catholic Herald
We're in danger of breeding a generation of namby-pambies
"the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom," says john proctor as fear and vengeance stalk the village of salem in the ...
The Catholic Herald
Will Catholic schools resist state pressure on sex education?
in 2007, the government shut down catholic adoption agencies. they didn’t put it like that, of course: they just insisted that, as a result ...
Dan Hitchens
Editor's letter
while researching our schools supplement i spoke to a gentleman who, despite not being a catholic himself, had chosen to send his children t...
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