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Five million people in South Sudan on the brink of starvation, says Catholic aid agency

Catholic Relief Services has warned 'people will starve to death' if food doesn't reach them soon

The heartache of busy men

it is not often that an ex-tory chancellor gets compared by a former cabinet colleague to gordon gekko. but that was how iain duncan smith r...

William Cash

The Pope’s ghostwriter

when one thinks of argentine catholicism, one unanswered question emerges: who among the local church figures is the closest to pope francis...

Jose Maria Poirier

How I stumbled on the truth about marriage

kate and i had been married for eight years, and had two young children, when she told me that our marriage was in trouble. we had drifted a...

Harry Benson

What’s inside this week’s magazine?

Find out what's really happening in the Catholic Church

Staff Reporter

Our broken world needs the Cross

the fourth sunday of lent 1 sm 16:1, 6-7, 10-13; ps 23; eph 5:8-14; jn 9:1-41 we have now reached the mid-point of lent and many of us will ...

Bishop Robert Byrne

Confirmation hearings open for Trump's Supreme Court nominee

Issues of religious liberty and abortion touched on during second day of hearings

Catholic News Service

Mary Kenny: Why I’ll be belting out Vera Lynn

how cheering to see the white cliffs of dover lit up with the image of dame vera lynn, to mark her 100th birthday. in her honour, i went and...

Mary Kenny

Comments of the Week

the novelist horrified by the english mass sir – canon david cotter (letter, march 17) queries my account of jf powers’s decision to sit out...

The Catholic Herald

Taylor Swift’s psalms show me how to love God

there is no trope more present in pop music than the kiss. and in fact my vocational journey to the jesuits started with a kiss. it was a su...

David Inczauskis SJ

Fine art: American titans who changed art forever

visiting american dream: pop to present at the british museum is a bit like solving a whodunit, cracking a finickity puzzle, or unmasking a ...

Miguel Cullen

Television: The bored youths of Brexit Britain

i had some very bored summers as a child. and that was pre-internet. the suburbs are not designed for teenagers – is anywhere? – and there’s...

Tim Stanley

Theatre: It’s still hard to keep up with Stoppard

fifty years ago the then 29-year-old tom stoppard had a brilliant success with his clever rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead, which has n...

Robert Tanitch

Music: A revisionist Wagner is greeted with booing

if you’re leaving an important job it’s natural to make some kind of statement as you go; and kasper holten’s statement on stepping down as ...

Michael White

Should 21st-century Christians live like monks?

the benedict option by rod dreher, sentinel, £20 this is the age of the new low. the benedict option is the latest in a string of books comi...

Michael Duggan

George Eliot’s two great rebellions

the transferred life of george eliot by philip davis, oup, £25 if there is no god, george eliot will do, author philip davis’s mentor used t...

Helen Andrews

Omnium Gatherum

‘god this week brings us to the feast of the annunciation on march 25. while it is a marian moment in the church’s calendar, it is truly a f...

Fr John Zuhlsdorf

Word This Week

fourth sunday of lent 1 sm 16:1, 6-7 & 10-13; eph 5:8-14; jn 9:1-41 (year a) ‘god does not see as man sees; man looks at appearances, bu...

Bishop David McGough

Lectio Divina

fourth sunday of lent: jn 9:1, 6-9, 13-17, 34-36* 1 as jesus was walking along, he saw a man who had been born blind. 6 after he said this, ...

Mgr Andrew Burnham

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