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Mary Kenny: Sex education and the city
there’s nothing wrong with sex education, even for quite young children, as is now being proposed. it’s understandable that we don’t want to...
Mary Kenny
New Utah bishop is first Filipino-born prelate to lead US diocese
Bishop Oscar Solis previously served as an auxiliary bishop in Los Angeles diocese
Associated Press
Comments of the week
as a prisoner, i know bishop moth is right sir – i write to offer my gratitude to bishop richard moth for highlighting the desperate fact th...
The Catholic Herald
This Lent, rediscover Oxford’s forgotten poet
in early 14th-century oxford, surrounded by some of the foremost theologians of medieval europe, a franciscan friar named william herebert w...
Eleanor Parker
Fine Art: Refugee horrors captured by a lab-cold lens
the maltese ship that decorated the nativity scene in st peter’s square this past christmas memorialised the plight of the refugee, a haunti...
Miguel Cullen
Television: A most Anglican Sunday evening in
the rev richard coles has that classic anglican vicar look. a half-smile containing lots of teeth. wise, but wise enough not to let it show....
Tim Stanley
Theatre: Unscripted sex change upstages Shakespeare
shakespeare’s twelfth night is already famous for its gender and sex confusion without malvolio having a sex change. on the national theatre...
Robert Tanitch
The heroism and romance of persecuted Catholics
the catholics by roy hattersley, chatto and windus, £25 roy hattersley is the son of a catholic priest, as he recounts in the opening pages ...
AN Wilson
Does Roger Scruton think like a horse?
on human nature by roger scruton, princeton, £18.95 ignore the knighthood, the professorships, the medals, the 40 or so elegantly argued boo...
Michael Duggan
Briefly noted
care for creation by pope francis (orbis/alban books, £12.99) . this collection of the writings, speeches and homilies of pope francis spell...
Staff writers
Word This Week
second sunday of lent gen 12:1-4; 2 tim 1:8-10; mt 17:1-9 (year a) lent is a season of repentance underpinned by a clear vision of hope. it ...
Bishop David McGough
Omnium Gatherum
each year during the first full week of lent, catholics for centuries have observed the ember days. there are four sets of these days (wedne...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Lectio Divina
1 six days later jesus took with him peter and the brothers james and john and led them up a high mountain where they were alone. 2 as they ...
Mgr Anthony Abela
Trump's latest travel ban still endangers most vulnerable, say Catholic bishops
Donald Trump's latest executive order bans arrivals from six majority-Muslim nations
Catholic News Service
Pastor Iuventus
the beginning of lent is a bit like contemplating a plunge into a cold swimming pool. if one would achieve the end, the only way to minimise...
Pastor Iuventus
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week ii sunday, march 12: second sunday of lent gn 12:1-4a; ps 33; 2 tm 1:8b-10; mt 17:1-9 monday, march 13: wee...
The Catholic Herald
Pictures of the week
1 cardinal vincent nichols distributes ashes to choristers at westminster cathedral (mazur/catholicnews.org.uk). 2 the norwich circle of the...
The Catholic Herald
March 12 to March 18
cardinal nichols (westminster) wed: meeting with bishops’ conference staff, london, sw1p 1qj, 10.00am. council of deans, archbishop’s house,...
The Catholic Herald
Prize crossword 0481
cryptic across 7 susanna’s wise judge of a book? (6) 8 following for west bromwich in britain of old (6) 9 one to follow, wise men say of a-...
Alun Evans
Stuart Reid: The last Bullingdon Boy standing
on the evening of ash wednesday, having prayed, fasted, and abstained from meat and, as far as was humanly possible, from uncharitable thoug...
Stuart Reid
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