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Texan judge blocks regulation requiring Catholic hospitals to provide gender transition services
The judge rejected the regulation because plantiffs would be forced to violate their religious beliefs
Associated Press
Kidnapped priest in desperate appeal to Pope
a video has emerged of salesian fr tom uzhunnalil, who was kidnapped by terrorists last year, in which the priest appeals for his release. t...
Staff writers
China tells bishops: follow socialism, not Rome
a leading chinese politician has told the country’s catholics to promote socialism and keep their distance from rome. speaking after a meeti...
Staff writers
Cause opens for mystic who bore stigmata
the diocese of youngstown, ohio, has formally opened the cause of the woman who inspired mother angelica to become a nun. more than 1,000 pe...
Staff writers
Cardinals ‘may correct Pope privately’
cardinal walter brandmüller, one of the four cardinals who have asked pope francis to reaffirm church teaching, has discussed the possibilit...
Staff writers
In brief
pope tells bishops: the church weeps at abuse in a letter to the world’s bishops for the feast of the holy innocents, pope francis has said ...
Staff writers
The abortion industry exposed
a devastating report emerged before christmas from the care quality commission following inspections of marie stopes international (msi) abo...
Madeleine Teahan
Colin Brazier: The guests who must be handled with care
for weeks on end – and at the time of writing – i remain “on standby” to go to mosul in iraq. being on call is one of the most disruptive an...
Colin Brazier
Cardinal Müller’s balancing act
over the past year, the prospect that pope francis would take the church on a trajectory radically different from that of his predecessors h...
Fr Mark Drew
Poles apart
warsaw when a polish bishop recently denied being in dispute with pope francis, it was only the latest sign of controversy over the pontiff’...
Jonathan Luxmoore
How the liturgical calendar freed me from drudgery
we all have rituals by which we bury the old year and unveil the new. i end each year fighting with my roof. i have a 100ft pine tree in the...
Chene Heady
The improbable Secretary-General
in 2004, catholics in europe received an alarming wake-up call when the italian rocco buttiglione was turned down for a european commission ...
Filipe D'Avillez
The theology of New Year’s resolutions
were you holier at the end of 2016 than at the beginning? and if not, perhaps this is the time to think a little about the theology of good ...
Quentin de la Bedoyere
Orwell’s debt to Christianity
later this year, a statue of george orwell will stand outside bbc new broadcasting house, cigarette in hand, looking quizzically at passersb...
Caroline Wyatt
Mary Kenny: The fall that opened my eyes
it’s said, from old times, that “pride comes before a fall”: in my case, carelessness and haste precede a fall, and i mean that quite litera...
Mary Kenny
Comments of the Week
the formula for a thriving church sir – it seems to me that your two articles in the pre-christmas edition (december 16) – revealing portsmo...
The Catholic Herald
The spiritual masterpiece that beat the censors
this year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of boris pasternak’s classic novel, doctor zhivago. problems with russian censorship...
Francis Phillips
Film: A barmy film with genuine emotional impact
endless poetry (15, 128 mins, ★★★ ) the new year is generally a good time to be a cinema lover. our picture houses suddenly beco...
Will Gore
Television: The horror spoof that gave me nightmares
at christmas we take a few days off work to spend time with the tv. this year i mostly watched harry potter grow old and stroppy. by the six...
Tim Stanley
Theatre: The art world satire that never gets old
art, at the old vic in london, is a play about art and friendship, but mostly about friendship. don’t let the 5ft by 4ft white canvas with w...
Dr David Cowan
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