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Redemptorist relief: how a religious order is caring for refugees in Ukraine
in an unnamed town in war-scarred north-eastern ukraine, an enormous icon of our lady of perpetual succour watches over two dozen or so tire...
David Godfrey
'Fulani association' warns Christians in Nigerian state to close churches or risk attacks
christians in nigeria’s zamfara state have been cautioned against public worship in churches lest they be attacked, abducted, and their plac...
Jude Atemanke CNA
Pope Francis in Iraq: Not Your Typical Lenten Sunday
mass in erbil capped the day, which began in mosul with a powerfully moving prayer service for victims or war, and saw the indomitable spiri...
John Cookson
An app to reveal how the BBC has long given up on neutrality
john reith, the first director-general of the bbc, was intensely high-minded. a scottish presbyterian, he imbued the organisation with a sen...
Niall Gooch
The month of roses
roses, in my garden at least, are now at their best. over the last 10 years, i have created a slightly mad garden over about five acres. at ...
charlie-hart
Antonia Nonagenaria
it was over lunch at le poule au pot towards the end of july that i suggested that lady antonia fraser might give the catholic herald an int...
Serenhedd James
Pope says maintaining Church teaching on ordination and marriage not a sign of closed-mindedness
papal plane – returning from lisbon on sunday, pope francis insisted that maintaining the church's traditional teachings on ordination and m...
Elise Ann Allen
Aid to the Church in Need gives £830,000 in emergency money to war-torn Ukraine
“thanks to the help of the world, ukraine resists, and we believe it will survive. here we have been helping the displaced, supplying air-ra...
John Newton
Every concession to the devil makes us less free and more enslaved
"'let anyone blaspheme against the holy spirit and he will never have forgiveness: he is guilty of an eternal sin.' this was because they we...
Fr David Howell
Summer spiritual reading
this is the month when many of our readers go on holiday – and it seems likely that, given the blistering temperatures predicted in europe t...
The Catholic Herald
How Bruce Springsteen helped me grieve for my father
in the late summer and early autumn of 2021, i knew my father was approaching his last days on this earth. inspired by the soothi...
Beth Amorosi
Pope decries 'cowardly' attack on Congo refugee camp
yaoundé, cameroon – pope francis has condemned a “cowardly attack” on a refugee camp in the eastern part of the democratic republic of congo...
Ngala Chimtom
An extract from Cardinal Pell’s Prison Journal, Volume 1
the extract appearing here is from george cardinal pell's prison journal, volume 1: the cardinal makes his appeal . george weigel introduced...
George Pell
Full Marx for the Dominican
it’s 20 years ago this year that herbert mccabe died. he was one of the great dominicans of the 20th century, perhaps the most lucid and wit...
Melanie McDonagh
Pope lauds role and need for women in top Vatican jobs
pope francis has said he will soon name another women to a key role overseeing administration of the vatican city state. it comes in the wak...
Elise Allen
REVIEW – The Illuminated Window: Stories across Time, by Virginia Chieffo Raguin
the illuminated window: stories across time virginia chieffo raguin reaktion books, £30, 272 pages writing in the first half of the 12th cen...
Mary Walker
Special report: Pilgrimage industry on its knees in Holy Land
navigating the old city of jerusalem is usually a challenge. the narrow, labyrinthine streets are typically crowded with pilgrims and touris...
CaitlinKelly
Blood and blessing? Catholicism and corrida
george young reflects on catholicism and the corrida, where the only certainty is death. the convergence between bullfighting and spanish ca...
George Young
Mass exodus as mobs burn churches and homes in Pakistan
up to 15 church buildings have been attacked and hundreds of christian homes destroyed after extremists went on the rampage in pakistan. chr...
John Pontifex
Writing their way into history
writing history has never been a safe business. all histories have political implications and in britain, since the reformation, even appare...
Rosemary Hill
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