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The only way to protect children online is parental responsibility
Filters and censorship don't work, so parents should educate their children
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
The best of the web
✣ highlights from the week online cleared of murder – then hugged by a pope amaury coutansais-pervinquière told the incredible story of toma...
Staff writers
Diary: by Harry Mount
why do british men wear socks and jackets during the intense heat? after years of sweating through summer parties, i’ve made a breakthrough ...
Harry Mount
Comments of the week
letters should include a genuine postal or email address, phone number and the style or title of the writer. email: letters@catholicherald.c...
The Catholic Herald
Arts essay: Mary’s dramatic life needs no embellishment
we may think that parliament can be a little fractious these days, but we are pale shadows of our tudor forebears. in 1586 job throckmorton,...
Jonathan Wright
Fine art: From inside an asylum, an imagination set sail
james henry pullen spent all his life after the age of 12 in asylums. in 1855, aged 20, he moved to the newly opened asylum for idiots at ha...
David V Barrett
Theatre: Holiday's fall leaves the audience gasping
audra mcdonald won a great many awards in new york for her solo performance in lady day at emerson’s bar & grill – a tribute to the sing...
Robert Tanitch
Sixth-century cell of St Columba discovered
An untested sample of the cell had been kept in a garage in Cornwall for several decades
Staff Reporter
The Australian Church must hold its nerve
the sexual abuse charges against cardinal george pell by the victoria police are a test for australian criminal justice, the australian chur...
Fr Raymond de Souza
Pictures of the week
1 archbishop bernard longley has ordained seven deacons, for the dioceses of birmingham, brentwood, cardiff, hallam, menevia and salford, at...
The Catholic Herald
The poets who unexpectedly lead us to God
Poetry can open our eyes to the glory of the divine presence in creation, says Joseph Pearce
Francis Phillips
Why the cappa magna makes people see red
For “progressive” Catholics, the cappa magna is – appropriately, you may think – like a red rag to a bull.
Damian Thompson
God, the Devil and comic book Catholicism
superheroes seem to be everywhere these days. wonder woman has just exploded onto the silver screen – and spiderman and thor are due to retu...
John Newton
Damian Thompson: Why the cappa magna makes people see red
i blinked in surprise when i saw the photographs. on june 18, the archbishop of liverpool – a diocese associated with the drab vestments and...
Damian Thompson
Catholic who died in London Bridge attack given anti-terrorism award
Ignacio Echeverria received a gold medal from Spain's Dignity and Justice, a support group for terror victims
Staff Reporter
Will Heaven: Seething? You should be
after a man-made disaster like the grenfell tower fire, the rush to judgment can be contagious. on the day of the fire, when acrid smoke fil...
Will Heaven
Pictures of the week
1 cardinal vincent nichols hosts an interfaith iftar at archbishop’s house, westminster, in partnership with the naz legacy foundation (phot...
The Catholic Herald
Italian police recover St John Bosco's brain from teapot
Fingerprints of the accused had been found on the glass case protecting the reliquary
Catholic News Service
A papal headache
few catholics outside nigeria will be familiar with the diocese of ahiara. but it has probably caused more heartache for the pope than any o...
The Catholic Herald
Pictures of the week
1 vatican archbishop paul gallagher attends the golden jubilee celebrations at liverpool’s metropolitan cathedral (photo: mazur/catholicnews...
The Catholic Herald
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