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Piero’s new-look Nativity
after three years of painstaking work, piero della francesca’s famous nativity, from the early 1480s, returned to public display in the nati...
Hugh Kerr
Francis could do what he did, but that's not the crucial thing
pope francis has placed very significant restrictions on the saying of the old mass, abrogating the much more permissive or generous policy ...
RobertPGeorge
Positive parallels between the Commonwealth and the Church
positive parallels between the commonwealth and the church. how do you hold together a large multinational association of highly diverse peo...
Niall Gooch
At a time when we should be celebrating life, others are lobbying for death
pope st john paul ii once remarked that in our celebration of the birth of jesus christ we bear witness that every human is “somebody unique...
Philip Campbell
Putting out to sea: Jesus calls; Peter follows
getting into one of the boats, which was simon’s, he asked him to put out a little from the land . (luke 5:3) in this sunday’s gospel we see...
Fr David Howell
War and immigration make this Feast Day of St Maximilian Kolbe poignantly relevant
every saint’s story and life's testament still resonates today no matter how sizeable the passage of time between us and them. but the story...
James Jeffrey
UK charity Mary's Meals is feeding 2.5 million vulnerable children - and it needs your help
(photo: little josephine has uk charity mary's meals to thank for her lunch at school every day) in the dry and unforgiving landscape of tur...
Thomas Black
Priest who opened Newman up to the world
fr ian turnbull ker, the leading scholar on the life and work of st john henry newman, died on 5 november. a brilliant writer and biographer...
The Catholic Herald
'Freedom is ever new': The legacy of Benedict XVI’s visit to the United States endures
in a homily on april 19, 2008, pope benedict xvi noted the st patrick cathedral’s beautiful stained-glass windows, which “flood the interior...
Fr Carter Griffin
Boston archdiocese starts work on affordable housing complex
new york – the archdiocese of boston and governor’s office have broken ground on what will be a community of more than a dozen affordable ho...
johnlavenburg
World Health Organisation Formally Accepts Holy See as Non-Member State Observer
on monday, the world health assembly – the governing forum of the world health organisation – formally accepted the holy see as a non-member...
Staff Reporter
Preston – a rare Catholic cityscape
preston is today a city of some 120,000 inhabitants. it is situated on the north bank of the ribble in lancashire. it is relatively unique a...
Michael Hodges
Beyond the bling: Mughals, Catholics and glittering works of art
there must be plenty of art enthusiasts who don’t know what a regular mughal is, let alone a great mughal. the memory of a dynasty that was ...
Lucien de Guise
Was Irish bard Shane McGowan let down by his own funeral Mass and by his Church?
no one does death like the irish. so the saying goes. or so we tell ourselves. when a funeral cortege makes its way from the church to the g...
Dualta Roughneen
Getting Sin Right
it’s rare to see an honest discussion of sin on canvas. and not just lust, which is what most people think of as sin, to the extent that the...
Melanie McDonagh
New exhibition in Warsaw 'ambitiously' examines St. John Paul II's and Robert Schuman's vision of 'European Unity'
europe is as much an idea as it is a place. we straddle a supercontinent physically dominated by asia and africa, but remain separate from t...
Georgia L. Gilholy
Pope Francis to theologians: See ‘contemporary challenges in light of the Wisdom of the Cross’
vatican city, sep 21, 2021 / 04:10 am pope francis urged theologians gathering in rome on tuesday to promote “a renewed understanding of con...
CNA Staff
Doing it for themselves
“oh! women simply don’t pass the test,” exclaimed the distinctly infuriating german painter georg baselitz back in 2013. he was mid-tirade a...
Francesca Peacock
‘Mystic passionate emotion’: Hector Berlioz’s uncompromising Catholic vision
although he wrote a requiem mass, te deum , and other spiritual compositions, the french romantic composer hector berlioz has regularly rece...
Benjamin Ivry
Challenging liberal Christianity: Jesus gave very clear warnings about losing ‘saltiness’
christians are supposed to be unpopular. they are supposed to be out of touch with contemporary society (whether that means first-century pa...
Niall Gooch
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