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Bishops canvass youngsters’ views ahead of synod
the bishops of england and wales have released a survey ahead of next year’s synod on youth. the “youth poll on life, faith and vocational d...
Staff writers
Abuse survivor clashes with Vatican official
the dispute between an abuse survivor who resigned from pope francis’s sex abuse advisory commission and a major vatican body intensified la...
Staff writers
In Brief
don’t hesitate to call in an exorcist, says pope pope francis told priests on friday that they “should not hesitate” to refer penitents to e...
Staff writers
Pope to visit Egypt as ISIS drives out Christians
pope francis will visit egypt for two days next month, the vatican has announced. the holy see said the pope was responding to invitations f...
Staff writers
Will the state ever grasp religion?
last week, the founder of st anselm’s institute in margate, a catholic institute that trains foreign priests and religious in evangelisation...
Madeleine Teahan
Stephen Daisley: Scotland’s messianic age
an old joke sees a jewish man accosted by some burly types on one of glasgow’s rougher streets. “you a catholic or a protestant?” demands th...
Stephen Daisley
‘If they re-elect me, I’d have to consider it’
in many ways, says fra’ matthew festing, it’s a relief not to be his most eminent highness the prince and grand master of the knights of mal...
Dan Hitchens
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
Catholic News Service
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
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