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The Church’s next political dilemma

‘you may not be interested in politics,” goes the old saying, “but politics is interested in you.” the church has rediscovered this truth ma...

Dan Hitchens

Madeleine Teahan: Help! I'm failing as a godmother

six times a year i turn the page in my diary and feel a stab of remorse. there it is, etched in block capitals: “sam’s birthday next week”, ...

Madeleine Teahan

Tug of war over Amoris

when pope francis published amoris laetitia five months ago, i predicted that the discussion of the document and its implications for cathol...

Fr Mark Drew

Annulment chaos in the Holy Land

pope francis has insisted that his annulment reforms are not a subversion of the church’s teaching against divorce. but in the middle east a...

Jill, Duchess of Hamilton

China’s evil secret

this article contains details which some readers may find disturbing ‘the scalpel cut into the chest and blood gushed out,” recalled an unna...

Benedict Rogers

Tim Kaine: yesterday’s Catholic leftist

at the centre of the china cabinet in my grandparents’ farmhouse, amid porcelain, crystal, and family portraits, stands a plate painted with...

Matthew Schmitz

University: a Catholic survival guide

the night i graduated from harvard, my family held a small gathering at our favourite little restaurant in cambridge. when it came time for ...

Aurora Griffin

The ethos that makes our university tick

throughout the year, in the midst of presenting athletics coverage, travelling to rio for the olympic games, invaluable work with my charity...

Gabby Logan

Mary Kenny: A perverse tribute to the miracle of life

there is justifiably much concern about the latest innovation in the “life sciences”, the biological sciences dealing with human life. the l...

Mary Kenny

Comments of the Week

catholic schools can heal britain’s divisions sir – you are right to welcome the government lifting the admissions cap on catholic schools a...

The Catholic Herald

Film: Two actors trapped inside a dictator’s fantasy

the lovers and the despot cert pg, 100 mins, ★★★★ the extraordinary, true tale that unravels in the lovers and the despot, a documentary fro...

Jenny McCartney

Television: Why I’m not in a stew over the Bake Off sale

before i get into this week’s review, we have to talk about the great british bake off. you’re doubtless aware that the bbc has been outbid ...

Tim Stanley

Theatre: Biblical drama sinks to Up Pompeii! level

john wolfson’s the inn at lydda , at shakespeare’s globe theatre, is based on an incident recorded in the death of pilate, which can be foun...

Robert Tanitch

Music: Young composers are disappointingly bland

an hour’s drive from vienna into lower austria brings you to the wachau, home of austria’s best vineyards. among them is a grand estate owne...

Michael White

How America’s progressives unleashed ‘moral chaos’

resurrecting the idea of a christian society by rr reno, regnery faith, £21 i groan a little when i read an opening sentence like: “our coun...

Michael Duggan

The volatile mind behind the water lilies

mad enchantment by ross king, bloomsbury, £25 by the time claude monet embarked on his daring series of water lily canvases he was a celebra...

Jonathan Wright

The Christian way to relieve stress

living with the mind of christ by stefan gillow reynolds, dlt, £12.99 contemplative christianity is an obvious precursor of modern “mindfuln...

Jane Taylor

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Luke Coppen

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