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Melissa Kite: When politics replaces morality

while i wait for my house sale to go through, i am staying with a friend in the country. he and i have been watching the early days of donal...

Melissa Kite

When politics replaces morality

‘you have a duty to disobey to the ecclesial authorities on temporal matters!” you might assume that the man saying these words, standing in...

Pierre Jova

Secularism, the new ancien régime

françois fillon’s successful campaign for the nomination of the centre-right les républicains party for this year’s presidential election ha...

Samuel Gregg

Thomas More’s amazing descendants

this week we mark the birthday of st thomas more, who was born in his parents’ home at milk street in london, just a few steps from the guil...

Thomas J Craughwell

Cardinal Müller: Communion for the remarried is against God’s law

The cardinal said that nobody, not even a pope, could change the teaching reaffirmed by St John Paul II

Staff Reporter

The charity world’s free trade U-turn

the universal church has not always been a strong supporter of globalisation and certainly not of free trade. in 1967, for example, pope pau...

Philip Booth

Meeting the Christians of Aleppo

standing in the square and closing my eyes tight shut, i could just about imagine what it must have been like in days gone by: the place thr...

John Pontifex

Mary Kenny: Luther, warts and all

this is martin luther’s centenary year – he nailed his notorious 95 theses to the church door in wittenberg in 1517 – and the holy father ha...

Mary Kenny

Comments of the Week

i respect and appreciate catholic schools sir – i would like to make my position clear in response to concerns about my views on catholic sc...

The Catholic Herald

St Dominic’s fight against heresy set to dance

it’s good to talk. and the order of preachers (dominicans) did some good talking together late last month during our 800th jubilee mission c...

Fr Dominic White

Film: The jury’s out on civil rights legal drama

loving  (12a, 123 mins,  ★★★ ) is the true story of richard and mildred loving, the virginia couple whose legal case in the late 1...

Will Gore

Television: Were Bacon’s popes a search for God?

any documentary about francis bacon has a tough job to do in having to match up to that glorious instalment of the south bank show, in which...

Will Gore

Fine Art: Vanessa Bell through a granddaughter's eyes

the textile artist, literary art director, muralist and fashion designer cressida bell – vanessa bell’s granddaughter and virginia woolf’s g...

Miguel Cullen

Music: Ravishing Rice leaves the audience crushed

the french composer francis poulenc offered two contrasting faces to his audience: on the one hand a committed catholic, on the other a robu...

Michael White

The most extraordinary politician of modern times

margaret thatcher: a life and legacy by david cannadine, oup, £10.99 for those who haven’t the time to read charles moore’s official biograp...

Jack Carrigan

The age of the trembling upper lip

the history of england: revolution by peter ackroyd, macmillan, £25 the fourth volume of peter ackroyd’s history of england lands with a 400...

Michael Duggan

A lyrical novel of modern martyrdom

the golden legend by nadeem aslam, faber and faber, £16.99 "the kinship of humanity was what christ bought into the world,” reflects the fic...

Stav Sherez

Word This Week

the fifth sunday of the year is 58:7-10; 1 cor 2:1-5; mt 5:13-16 (year a) ‘share your bread with the hungry, and shelter the homeless poor. ...

Bishop David McGough

Omnium Gatherum

as i write i am within sight of the rocky mountains, preparing to preach at masses during a parish’s forty hours’ devotion, also called by t...

Fr John Zuhlsdorf

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