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Is Big Tech trying to suppress the pro-life movement?
donald trump and elizabeth warren have both made headlines this past week, accusing social media companies of aiding and comforting the enem...
Michael Warren Davis
Rebellion or submission: Why are millennials flocking to convents?
the supercomputer that generates trend pieces about millennials has gone haywire. having been fed a steady diet of breezy reportage about th...
Jordan Bloom
Why MPs are rushing to impose abortion on Northern Ireland
it would be an understatement to say that this parliament is among the least impressive in british history. it will be remembered most notab...
Simon Caldwell
Is Viganò overstating his case?
last summer’s celebrity ecclesiastical whistleblower, archbishop carlo maria viganò, is back in the news. on july 3, lifesite published...
Christopher R. Altieri
World news: from Londrina to London
louisville, kentucky archbishop diagnosed with cancer archbishop joseph kurtz of louisville, the former president of the us bishops’ confere...
Staff writers
The week in quotations
"if the world continues to do nothing, the result will be the elimination of the christian presence" bishop laurent birfuoré dabiré of ...
Staff writers
Meanwhile: Why Ann Widdecombe wasn't posted to Rome
in 2010, the former tory minister (and now catholic herald columnist) ann widdecombe was offered a new job: david cameron asked he...
Staff writers
The best of the web: America's African priests, a new religion, and leaving Orthodoxy
how african vocations are helping america at quartz africa , lekan oguntoyinbo reported on “a growing trend in the catholic church in americ...
Staff writers
The week ahead: Abortion vigil, Newman talks, canonisation tickets
cincinnati catholics will be praying to end abortion tomorrow, in the weekly event at holy name catholic church, 2448 auburn avenue. mass wi...
Staff writers
Overlooked: Indian priests defy cardinal
what happened? the divisions among india’s syro-malabar priests have been laid bare, after cardinal george alencherry, the leader of the syr...
Staff writers
The big story: Vincent Lambert dies after withdrawal of food and water
what happened? vincent lambert, the severely disabled frenchman who was at the centre of a legal battle, has died after his doctors cut off ...
Staff writers
Burma, not Belgium, is the future of the Church
which country produces the most priests relative to the size of its catholic population? is it brazil, the powerhouse of latin american cath...
The Catholic Herald
July 19, 2019
The Catholic Herald
Wanted: certain kinds of saints
the french philosopher simone weil once commented that it’s not enough today to be merely a saint. rather, “we must have the saintliness dem...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Wolf Hall: When ingenious fiction meets public ignorance
just in time for the publication of the mirror and the light, the third and final volume of hilary mantel’s trilogy about the life of t...
Melanie McDonagh
Heretic of the week: Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian
apostasy is a bad thing, whoever may do it; but it seems particularly bad when it happens to a scion of one of those grand recusant families...
Charles Coulombe
Prize crossword 0601
cryptic across 1 eyes beginning to go, need earliest treatment for transplant fixes (7) 5 nymph’s impiety rebounds, ensnaring even thos...
Alun Evans
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week iii sunday, july 14 : 15th sunday in ordinary time dt 30:10-14; ps 69; col 1:15-20; lk 10:25-37 m...
The Catholic Herald
How to… join the papal nobility
in spite of a succession of reforms in the modern era, including the second vatican council, the catholic church has never abolished the pap...
The Catholic Herald
The Martins didn't know they were saints – but they wanted to be
if your only catholic association for the date of july 12 was hitherto the painful one of the battle of the boyne, a new and beautiful one c...
Fr Dominic Allain
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