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The revival no one expected

britain’s syro-malabar catholics, soon to grace the city of preston with a long-deserved cathedral, seem to be having something of a breakou...

Stephen Bullivant

How Herbert McCabe taught me to pray

there are some people, lucky things, whose prayers are nearly always heard. a friend of mine, herbert mccabe, a distinguished dominican theo...

Melanie McDonagh

The anxious world of Turkey’s Catholics

in 2010, the austrian politician ewald stadler delivered a rousing speech from the floor of the national council in vienna. for more than ei...

Robert Wargas

The worst reasons for ad orientem

i was invited to make the case against ad orientem. but i can’t do that, for i’m not opposed to this practice and i have celebrated mass tha...

Fr Anthony Ruff

Westminster Cathedral to be floodlit in red to highlight plight of persecuted Middle East Christians

'If every parish in the country did the same it might at last wake up our political classes to the scale of the suffering,' Aid to the Church in Need has said

Staff Reporter

Why Catholics make great managers

it’s back. the new premier league season starts on august 13, just as fans finally stop shaking their heads in disbelief at the events of la...

Michael Duggan

What secular charities can’t do

as tears emerge behind the slit of 20-year-old gada’s black face veil, marianne vecchione, a catholic missionary, reaches over and clasps he...

James Jeffrey

Mary Kenny: Leonard Cohen and the art of saying goodbye

leonard cohen is surely one of the greatest poet-balladeers of our time. his voice may be gravelly, but his lyrics are inspirational. now it...

Mary Kenny

US Catholicism’s long identity crisis

catholics in america by russell shaw, ignatius press, £12.99 russell shaw invites us catholics to “rethink the old project of unconditional ...

Jonathan Wright

The way to empty abortion clinics

the walls are talking by abby johnson, ignatius press, £14 whatever the political upheavals of the last few weeks in britain, it is safe to ...

Francis Phillips

A memorable quest for Waugh’s better nature

evelyn waugh: a life revisited by philip eade, weidenfeld, £30 great writer, unpleasant man. such is probably the common estimate of evely...

Michael Duggan

Music: Powerful pianists and macho mosquitos

if you’re a grand anglo-italian family who own a castle on a hill in tuscany, the thing to do is run a summer music festival. ideally like t...

Michael White

Theatre: Why I feel sorry for Harry Potter’s son

in the victorian era, the heyday for popular theatre, audiences loved melodrama, spectacle and sensational scenes. “sensation is what the pu...

Robert Tanitch

Television: The biggest celebrities you’ve never heard of

conversations with my mother about celebrities are like a game of guess who? she’ll say: “who’s that man i’m thinking of? he’s married to th...

Tim Stanley

Film: Hunger Games knock-off will leave you famished

nerve  (15, 96 mins,  ★★ ) as a teenage boy growing up in the 1990s i was duty-bound to love the word, channel 4’s deliriously pro...

Will Gore

Rio Olympics a 'missed opportunity' to help Brazil's poor, says Cafod

The plight of Brazil's indigenous people should be centre stage at the Games, a spokesman said

Staff Reporter

Comments of the Week

brexit is nothing like the reformation sir – professor john charmley’s “britain’s latter-day reformation” (comment, july 29) is at best a “r...

The Catholic Herald

Christians say defeating ISIS won't make Iraq safe for them

Despite military defeats suffered by ISIS, Iraqi Christians say minority groups in the country face further uncertainty

Associated Press

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