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The big story of the past seven days
✣ roe v wade plaintiff turned pro-lifer dies at 69 what happened? norma mccorvey, the roe of the infamous us abortion judgment roe v w...
Staff writers
The best of the Catholic blogosphere
✣ highlights from the week online a philosopher’s deathbed request at the national catholic register, robert royal paid tribute to th...
Staff writers
Militants kill two Christians in Egypt's Sinai
The murders come days after an ISIS video vowed to increase attacks on minority groups
Associated Press
Church teaching ‘does not vary by region’
cardinal gerhard müller, the vatican’s doctrinal chief, has said that local bishops should not give “contradictory interpretations of doctri...
Staff writers
Pray for those who dislike you, urges Pope
a practical first step towards holiness is to pray for your enemies, pope francis has said. during a parish visit on saturday evening, the p...
Staff writers
Our bishops face an Amoris dilemma
when archbishop charles chaput of philadelphia issued pastoral guidelines on amoris laetitia last july, not everyone was pleased. critics di...
Madeleine Teahan
Fatima Cause takes step forward
the diocese of coimbra has concluded its phase of the cause of carmelite sister lucia dos santos, one of the three children who saw our lady...
Staff writers
Judge blocks Texas cutting funding to Planned Parenthood
Arkansas, Alabama, Kansas, Mississippi and Louisiana have also had similar efforts blocked
Associated Press
In brief
isis promises to target egypt’s christians an isis affiliate group in egypt has released a video promising more attacks on the country’s chr...
Staff writers
Matthew Walther: An Ash Wednesday I’ll never forget
chesterton did not actually say that those of us who don’t believe in god will believe in anything, but he ought to have because it’s true. ...
Matthew Walther
A beautiful Church for the poor
it is no secret that catholic worship has become less beautiful. jf powers, the impish catholic writer, counted as dear friends many artists...
Matthew Schmitz
A new generation of Christian artists
i’ve been involved in ongoing, fruitful discussions with theologians over the years. these have led to specific works such as my music theat...
Sir James MacMillan
Barbed-wire Christianity
as disputes continue over the mistreatment of refugees attempting the “balkan route” into europe, no government has been criticised as harsh...
Jonathan Luxmoore
Four questions for the cardinal
vatican city readers, like us writers, are perhaps getting weary from the dizzying twists and turns on divorce, remarriage and the sacrament...
Fr Raymond de Souza
On the trail of that GKC quote
of all the wonderful chesterton quotations, perhaps the finest and best known is the following. the times, having posed the question “what’s...
Stephen Bullivant
How to get into spiritual shape
ash wednesday jl 2:12-18; ps 51; 2 cor 5:20—6:2; mt 6:1-6, 16-18 ‘remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” these powerful ...
Bishop John Sherrington
The hook of Mormon
mike otterson is coming home. not all the way home (he is a scouser) but a lot closer than he has been for most of his career. otterson’s pr...
Alan Fimister
Mary Kenny: Who would Joan of Arc vote for?
a fresh theatrical production of st joan claims that bernard shaw’s play is now “relevant to our time”. but the story of joan of arc is rele...
Mary Kenny
Comments of the Week
how to help the inspiring sister tarcisia sir – no one could fail to be moved and inspired by sister tarcisia hunhoff’s work to provide sore...
The Catholic Herald
Why Christians should embrace Philip Pullman
discovering philip pullman’s his dark materials trilogy, as a child, was for me a moment of genuine wonder and awe. not since cs lewis had a...
Max Wind-Cowie
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