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Mary Kenny: The Nativity story in a child’s face
in the first week of december, i received a christmas gift which will have given me more joy than any material object i can imagine: a photo...
Mary Kenny
Comments of the Week
the attacks on pope francis are reminiscent of the pharisees testing jesus sir – the wolves are circling around pope francis. a quick search...
The Catholic Herald
The light that never goes out
‘where would you choose to go on a retreat if you could travel anywhere in the world?” this was the question i was asked recently, a questio...
Bishop Mark Davies
Love can conquer hate – I’ve seen it happen
an explosion of hatred and intolerance hit the world this year. from post-brexit britain to america’s trump era, from ethnic cleansing of ro...
Benedict Rogers
Memories of an anti-Catholic boyhood
it is embarrassing to recall that i didn’t think my grandparents were christians. they were catholics, you see, and so i believed that they ...
Matthew Schmitz
The third coming of Christ
‘the coming of our god, our thoughts must now employ.” these words set the tone for our approach to christmas. the famous advent sermon of s...
Cardinal Vincent Nichols
The shirt that led St Thomas More to God
the reputation of st thomas more has for centuries survived the “shafts of falsehood and of folly”, to borrow a phrase of william cobbett, t...
Simon Caldwell
Holiness is not to be sneered at
there is something about a great many saints that annoys and even angers some people. thus the recent canonisation of mother teresa revived ...
Richard Ingrams
Staying friends after Brexit
w hen pope john xxiii called for the second vatican council in 1959, he did not know fully what would be its outcome. he had an instinct, an...
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor
A heartbreak that transformed church music
anybody who has had but the slightest involvement with the musical life of his church, be he so high as music director, master of all he sur...
David Oldroyd-Bolt
The sacredness that secularism can’t hide
i first cared about being catholic, not out of any profound love for the person of christ, but out of a profound distaste for my other optio...
Marc Barnes
Protesters dismantle pentagram erected next to Nativity scene
A 300-pound metal sculpture of a satanic pentagram in Florida was vandalised
Associated Press
The gift of Joseph Ratzinger
how does one begin to enter into such a mind as that of joseph ratzinger? how does one enter – more importantly – into such a spirituality, ...
William Oddie
Morning Catholic must-reads: 21/12/16
A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church
Luke Coppen
A tale of three Christmases
this year, for the first time in the history of the state of israel, christmas day will be a public holiday. this is not the result of a sud...
Jill, Duchess of Hamilton
What grown-ups can learn this Christmas
the mystery of christmas is a central mystery of the faith, and it is one for which children have a special affinity. the secular christmas ...
Joseph Shaw
The secular side of the Middle Ages
a churchman living in east london despairs of his flock. “there are many people who do not believe that god exists, nor do they think that t...
Ed West
My gift is more ethical than your gift
‘isn’t it marvellous that the royal family only give each other one small gift?” said my friend the other day, before adding: “so classy.” m...
Melissa Kite
Pope Francis grants freedom to monsignor jailed over leaks
Mgr Vallejo was found guilty of passing confidential documents to journalists
Associated Press
Magical Christmas music from a witty hedonist
at some point in the coming days, buffeted by the frenzy and bombast of a 21st-century christmas, you may have the urge (and perhaps just a ...
Michael Duggan
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