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Television: An innocent crucified by public opinion
i’m of an age when i can feel nostalgic about murder trials. i remember the amanda knox case vaguely. it was 2007 and i was finishing a phd ...
Tim Stanley
Theatre: Twee, maybe – but delightfully English
la fille mal gardée at the royal opera house sounds very french and a bit naughty. but frederick ashton’s ballet could not be more english a...
Robert Tanitch
What comes after the ‘reform of the reform’?
liturgy in the twenty-first century edited by alcuin reid, oremus, £16.99 ‘the reform of the reform” – in other contexts the phrase could ha...
Michael Duggan
The British Isles seen through X-ray specs
the making of the british landscape by nicholas crane, weidenfeld and nicolson, £20 for the first time in over a century, visitors can now s...
Harry Mount
Why not choose our politicians by lots?
against elections by david van reybrouck, bodley head, £9.99 democracy today is in crisis. never in modern history has there been more disco...
Patrick West
Briefly noted
scarpia by piers paul read (bloomsbury, £8.99) . in this characteristically bold and stylish novel, read re-imagines puccini’s grand opera t...
Staff writers
Word This Week
the 30th sunday of the year eccl 35:12-14 & 16-19; 2 tim 4: 6-8 & 16-18; lk 18:9-14 (year c) ‘the man who with his whole heart serve...
Bishop David McGough
Omnium Gatherum
as i tap on my awkwardly propped laptop in a van bouncing on roman streets, my mind turns to archangel raphael. i invoked him in the prayer ...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Lectio Divina
luke 18:9-14 9 jesus also told this parable to people who were sure of their own goodness and despised everybody else. 10 “once there were t...
Mgr Anthony Abela
Saint of the week: John Paul II (October 22)
secret studies karol wojtyła was born in wadowice, a town in southern poland, on may 18, 1920. his sister, olga, died in infancy before karo...
Staff Reporter
Pastor Iuventus
the opus anglicanum exhibition at the victoria & albert museum opens a window on to medieval english catholicism and the splendour of pr...
Pastor Iuventus
Mass Readings
ordinary form divine office week ii sunday, october 23: 30th sunday in ordinary time sir 35:12-14, 16-18; ps 34; 2 tm 4:6-8, 16-18; lk 18:9-...
The Catholic Herald
Morning Catholic must-reads: 19/10/16
A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church
Luke Coppen
Pictures of the Week
1 abbot francis baird welcomes three visiting thai buddhist monks to prinknash abbey in cranham, gloucester. 2 archbishop bernard longley an...
The Catholic Herald
October 23 to October 29
cardinal nichols (westminster) tue: mass – westminster celebration of the diamond jubilee of cardinal cormac murphy-o’connor’s ordination to...
The Catholic Herald
Will Heaven: My neighbour needed a Good Samaritan
i first met norman – not his real name – a couple of years before he killed himself. coming home to my flat one evening, i heard a yelp at t...
Will Heaven
Don’t confuse Jesus with Hamlet
thirty-four years ago when i launched this column, i would never have said this: restlessness is not something to be cultivated, no matter h...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Some progressives tried to divide the Church, says head of organisation ‘created’ by Clinton aide
Christopher Hale said many people were involved in founding CACG, but its only current aim is 'to promote the social teaching of the Church'
Dan Hitchens
Patriarch Kirill concludes visit to UK amid criticism
The patriarch met the Queen and Archbishop of Canterbury during his time in London
Staff Reporter
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