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Medics no longer given cash to judge miracles
doctors who judge whether healings should be declared miracles are no longer to be paid in cash under new norms approved by pope francis. th...
Staff writers
In brief
bishop to discuss battle against boko haram bishop oliver dashe doeme of maiduguri, nigeria, whose diocese is plagued by boko haram militant...
Staff writers
Three more priests are murdered in Mexico
three priests have been kidnapped and killed in mexico in just a few days, raising the death toll of clergy murdered in the country to 15 in...
Staff Reporter
No change on Communion, says US bishop
bishop thomas olmsted of phoenix, arizona, has said that pope francis’s exhortation amoris laetitia preserves papal teaching that bars commu...
Staff writers
Assisted suicide ‘a barrier to absolution’
the bishops of alberta and the northwest territories have issued pastoral guidelines for clergy dealing with catholics who are considering e...
Staff writers
Why it’s not 1968 all over again
for some catholics it must have felt like a flashback to 1968. last week, 149 academics issued a statement publicly challenging church teach...
Madeleine Teahan
Colin Brazier: A moment of glory in hard-boiled Manhattan
new york my 48 hours in new york coincide with a security lock-down. on the day before i arrive police shoot and detain a man suspected of p...
Colin Brazier
My journey from Tehran to Rome
on july 26, i announced my decision to join the catholic church. hours earlier, a pair of jihadists had attacked a church in france and murd...
Sohrab Ahmari
Charity to sell cars used by the Pope to raise funds for Syrian refugees
The vehicles were used to transport the Pontiff during his visit to Poland in July
Associated Press
Bishop of Leeds lowers Confirmation age in an attempt to increase numbers
Bishop Marcus Stock said he was concerned about the number of baptised Catholics who were not confirmed
Staff Reporter
The Jesuits’ next chapter
a general congregation meeting of the jesuits is always a major event. but this year’s, the 36th in history, is unique in a number of respec...
David Inczauskis SJ
Learning to love ‘Here I am, Lord’
for the past week, i have been sequestered at the ateneo pontificio regina apostolorum in rome, an institution about five miles west of st p...
Bishop Robert Barron
Mary Kenny: What Corbyn can teach the Church
everyone now has heard of momentum, the successful grassroots organisation which many believe (and some fear) is taking over the labour part...
Mary Kenny
Comments of the Week
communion for the remarried isn’t new sir – in the hope of helping to heal the rift between those who follow the thinking of pope francis on...
The Catholic Herald
Fine Art: It’s no longer shocking, but it’s still great art
abstract expressionism royal academy of art, until january 2, 2017 last time there was an exhibition in this country dedicated to abstract e...
Daisy Dunn
Television: Victoria’s reign as a light-hearted romp
victoria (sundays, itv, 9pm) has a problem. it’s scheduled in competition with poldark on bbc one, which is popular with the ladies because ...
Tim Stanley
Theatre: Old poets fight it out in no man’s land
no one who saw john gielgud and ralph richardson in the original production of harold pinter’s no man’s land by peter hall will ever forget ...
Robert Tanitch
Music: Absurdly vulgar, but an organist to watch
six hundred years ago three men rode into what is now the german lakeside town of konstanz, each claiming to be the pope. the endless wrangl...
Michael White
The ‘rational’ revolution that became unhinged
the french revolution by ian davidson, profile, £25 in the popular imagination, the french revolution was a bloody episode that witnessed fr...
Jonathan Wright
Nothing new in this scornful Bible study
the bible for grown-ups by simon loveday, icon, £12.99 simon loveday assures readers that this study of the bible will be even-handed. his b...
Jonathan Wright
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