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Heretic of the week: Jan Hus
bohemian-czech native jan hus (1369-1415) is widely considered a forerunner of the protestant revolt. in 1393 he received his ba from the un...
Charles Coulombe
Detaching universities from the Church hasn't freed them
at a london conference this monday, sir roger scruton gave an illuminating address on why people have need of nations. but what had people t...
C C Pecknold
Places, people and ancient instability
st mark the evangelist by serena fass, filament publishing (distributed by aid to the church in need uk), 315pp, £25/$30 serena fass is a re...
Lucien de Guise
It will take more than a mutual defense pact to quell the Twitter mob
niall ferguson has recently recounted the ever-lengthening list of professional thinkers, public intellectuals, and writers of any stripe wh...
C C Pecknold
Catholic University president applauds students' decision to block porn
the president of the catholic university of america has voiced his support for a student government resolution that asked the university to ...
Jonah McKeown/CNA
If Hitler had his way he would have exterminated Christians too
in a recent column, michael rosenwald writes in the washington post about hitler’s view of christianity by way of alan bullock’s classic wor...
C C Pecknold
Merton remains unignorable - and not because of his love affair
thomas merton looms large in the catholic imagination as the quintessentially post-vatican ii spiritual writer. that should tell us all we n...
Michael Warren Davis
The week in quotations
"she will be leaving in weeks" pakistan prime minister imran khan on asia bibi bbc interview "the sign of peace, reduced in catholic masses ...
Staff writers
Get 20% off all US subscriptions this Easter
from now until the end of monday, april 22, the catholic herald is offering 20% off all subscriptions to its new us edition for easter. just...
Robert Wargas
The 'woke' get the parody they deserve
woke: a guide to social justice by titania mcgrath constable, 150pp, £12.99/$18.99 an aphorism traditionally attributed to gk chesterton not...
Simon Caldwell
It is young people who are leading the fight against pornography
in february of last year, ross douthat penned a column about banning porn . it was a kind of feminist argument. “if you want better men by a...
C C Pecknold
Ben Shapiro, a William F Buckley for the internet age
brilliant, impish and alarmingly productive, ben shapiro is a william f buckley for the internet age. hundreds of thousands of fans listen t...
Matthew Schmitz
What we might be asked at the gates of heaven
most of us have been raised to believe that we have a right to possess whatever comes to us honestly, either through our own work or through...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Letters from the Vatican #2
the view from (and in) the u.s. thanks in part to the hyperventilating language of last year’s pennsylvania grand jury report (which followe...
Xavier Rynne II
The Church is in danger of losing all respect for the Eucharist
should andrew cuomo, the governor of new york, be excommunicated from the catholic church? let me see. a politician who describes himself as...
Tim Stanley
The wrong way to defend public religious symbolism
later this month, the supreme court will decide whether a maryland parks commission violates the constitution by administering a world war i...
Kevin Daley
A new persecution has begun - and with it, a subtle temptation
The danger to Western Christians doesn't come from sword-and-sandals tyrants, but from an enforced code of etiquette
Matthew Schmitz
How to free your brain
why is the first paragraph of this column so important? that is easy to answer: if the first paragraph sounds sufficiently interesting you a...
Quentin de la Bedoyere
Bishop Egan: Britain in 'amazing political mess' over Brexit
britain is in an "amazing political mess" over brexit, an english bishop said. bishop philip egan of portsmouth voiced his opinion on twitte...
Simon Caldwell
My top 10 spiritual books of the year
in this annual round-up i will restrict myself to focusing only on books that deal explicitly with spirituality, notwithstanding some very f...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
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