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Holiness is not to be sneered at
Why do critics spend so much time scolding the saintly?
Richard Ingrams
Love can conquer hate – I’ve seen it happen
Like many countries, Burma has been ravaged by sectarian hatred. But at an inter-religious meeting, I saw a flicker of hope
Benedict Rogers
The silence that makes us tremble
In this extract from his new book, the Vatican’s head of liturgy tells Nicolas Diat that we need to rediscover a ‘joyful and sacred fear’
Cardinal Robert Sarah
The party must go on – yes, into February
The modern tendency is to start and end Christmas early. Let’s return to our roots and celebrate until Candlemas
Melanie McDonagh
Damning report reveals safety risks at abortion provider Marie Stopes
In two centres, clinicians were signing between 30 and 60 permission forms at a time
Staff Reporter
Let Christ be born anew
on christmas day we celebrate the moment when god came to us in human flesh. the mystery and event of the incarnation made possible the sanc...
Fr Julian Large
The big story of the past seven days
✣ bombing at cairo church kills women and children what happened? twenty-five people were killed at a church in cairo when a suicide b...
Staff writers
The best of the Catholic blogosphere
✣ highlights from the week online hats off to the fun and practical saturno catholic bloggers leapt to the defence of the clerical he...
Staff writers
Virgin and Child ‘a glimpse of what we lost’
a medieval virgin and child that survived the ravages of the reformation has returned to england for the first time in 600 years. the alabas...
Staff writers
In brief
vatican dicastery to look at just war theory cardinal peter turkson has told reporters that the new vatican dicastery for justice, peace and...
Staff writers
Bomb attack on Coptic church kills 24 worshippers
isis has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at a church in cairo that killed 24 christians. the terrorist group named the bomber a...
Staff writers
Pope asks world leaders to ‘banish violence’
pope francis has called for a new style of politics built on peace and pleaded for disarmament, the eradication of nuclear weapons and an en...
Staff writers
The rediscovery of Catholic art
in 1563, a year before his son was born, john shakespeare was given an unpleasant job. as chamberlain of the corporation of stratford, he wa...
Dan Hitchens
Libby Purves: Is my crib hobby getting out of hand?
the other day, in a brief, frivolous chunnel-hop to lille christmas market, i tried to reclaim a mental map of what was my home town in the ...
Libby Purves
Martin Scorsese interview: ‘Catholicism is always in you’
martin scorsese is talking about vocations. it’s s a subject he knows something about, having studied at a seminary when he was a young man....
Gabrielle Donnelly
A success story in fighting homelessness
caritas anchor house grabbed the headlines last year when, after an epic struggle with hmrc, it forced the taxman to give up its quest to fo...
Andrew Cusack
Oh, Boris! But actually, he was spot on
when my children were under the age of five, there was a book we enjoyed reading called oh, boris! it was the story of a large, enthusiastic...
Jenny McCartney
The party must go on – yes, into February
one of the downsides of starting christmas so soon is that it finishes too soon. obviously, if the season starts commercially just after hal...
Melanie McDonagh
The saint with Aristotle on his finger
washington dc martin scorsese’s newly released film about jesuit missionaries in japan, silence, joins other films on the courageous jesuit ...
Fr Raymond de Souza
The silence that makes us tremble
nicolas diat: what connection do you make between silence and the sacred? cardinal robert sarah: the idea of the sacred is particularly misu...
Cardinal Robert Sarah
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