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"Share your joy with others!" Pope Francis's message to 1.5 million young people
lisbon – pope francis has told a crowd of young people at a prayer vigil for world youth day (wyd), estimated by organisers to be in the reg...
Elise Ann Allen
Young Chinese Catholics speak of hope of papal visit to China
lisbon – young people from china attending world youth day in lisbon have praised pope francis’s kindness and invited him to visit, saying c...
Elise Ann Allen
The tempered joy of Elizabeth Jennings
the italian poet giuseppe ungaretti claimed that "extreme turbulence" was best expressed with "extreme precision”. what time of human life a...
Georgia L. Gilholy
Bishop of Hong Kong, Patriarch of Jerusalem and Archbishop Fernández among new cardinals announced by Pope Francis
rome. the bishop of hong kong, bishop stephen chow sj ( pictured ), the latin patriarch of jerusalem, archbishop pierbattista pizzaballa and...
The Catholic Herald
Michael de la Bédoyère and growing up with the Catholic Herald
stephen le la bédoyère remembers his father michael, who edited the catholic herald between 1934 and 1962, on the 50th anniversary of his de...
Steve de la Bedoyere
The Herald nominated for media awards
the catholic herald has been shortlisted for two awards at this year's professional publishers association (ppa) awards, which will be held ...
The Catholic Herald
Leading Catholics and rabbis agree: help terminally ill, reject assisted suicide
leading israeli rabbis and catholic church leaders have signed a joint declaration on the ethics of treating the terminally ill, and rejecti...
Kevin-Jones
Long-lost chapter of Bible discovered
a long-lost chapter of biblical text has been discovered nearly 1,500 years after it was initially written. according to the study published...
Hugh Kerr
An Easter Anthology, by Arthur Howells
an easter anthology arthur howells hodder & stoughton, £16.99, 288 pages when thinking of anthologies, two types come immediately to min...
Fr Hugh Somerville-Knapman
Abuse expert leaves Vatican commission for protection of minors, citing concerns
jesuit father hans zollner, an internationally-renowned expert in protecting children and vulnerable adults from clerical sex abuse, has res...
Hannah Brockhaus
Diary: by Sarah Sands
one of the great novels on sickness and death is thomas mann’s the magic mountain. i have been reading it because of a norfolk-based interes...
sarah sands
Deeper insight into Mary, Queen of Scots
a moving and insightful treasure trove of her ‘lost letters’ has been discovered online, writes gertrude clark. the “most important new find...
Gertrude Clarke
Stonyhurst College and its churches
stonyhurst is a remarkable establishment, in both architectural and other ways. it is physically situated in remote lancashire countryside t...
Michael Hodges
Traditional Latin Mass: the latest pawn in the Vatican chess game
vatican politics is beginning to look a little like a chess game. white against black. a battle between those who love the church throu...
Gavin Ashenden
Nicaraguan bishop jailed for 26 years after he spurns offer of exile in United States
the nicaraguan dictatorship has sent a catholic bishop to jail for 26 years for treason after he refused to board a plane to take him into e...
Simon Caldwell
What does Pope Francis really think about homosexuality and sin?
there was a flurry of correspondence between the tireless lgbtq+ activist fr james martin and pope francis on saturday 27 january.&nb...
Gavin Ashenden
Assisted suicide risks making medical profession 'no go area' for Catholics
the introduction of assisted suicide could risk making the medical profession a “no go area” for catholics, the catholic union of great brit...
Olenka Hamilton
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
Death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI: Cardinal Nichols
the archbishop of westminster, cardinal vincent nichols, has issued the following statement on the death of pope emeritus benedict xvi. "i a...
The Catholic Herald
On the Third Day of Christmas: The Incarnation
on the feast of st john the evangelist, the great apostle of the incarnation, an extract from the third chapter of st athanasius’s great tre...
St Athanasius of Alexandria
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