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Don't push young people to the margins, urges Pope as 2017 begins
'We have condemned our young people to have no place in society,' Pontiff says at Vespers
Associated Press
How does the Pope want to reform the Curia? We still don't really know
Nearly four years into the reign of Pope Francis, we still do not know what his reformed Roman Curia might look like
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
The saint with Aristotle on his finger
There is still plenty to learn from the life of Thomas More
Fr Raymond de Souza
Wales and the Midlands are ‘most spiritual’ parts of Britain, poll suggests
Londoners and northerners were least likely to believe in a God or higher power
Staff Reporter
Cardinal: we shouldn’t be gloomy about Brexit
In an article for the Catholic Herald Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor said leaving the EU was a 'huge step' in British history
Staff Reporter
Mary Kenny: the former ‘bad girl’ with a John Henry Newman tattoo
The Catholic writer and Herald columnist speaks to me about her heroes and the adage she lives by
Francis Phillips
Platitudes aren't enough. We need to discredit the jihadis' ridiculous ideas
The extremists can't resist a public platform. So let's subject their ideas to real scrutiny
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
A tale of three Christmases
In the birthplace of Christianity, the different calendars used by churches mean that Christmas comes more than once a year
Jill, Duchess of Hamilton
The saint with Aristotle on his finger
The next time someone claims that the 16th-century English Church was backward and superstitious, tell them about this ring
Fr Raymond de Souza
Film review: Scorsese's Silence is magnificent and moving
This is a tale of anti-Christian persecution that speaks loudly and dreadfully to modern times
Will Gore
Martin Scorsese interview: ‘Catholicism is always in you’
The director was dismissed from the seminary as a young man. But his personal pilgrimage has never ended
Gabrielle Donnelly
Film review: Scorsese's Silence is magnificent and moving
martin scorsese has always had an enigmatic relationship with the catholic church. in the past, the rightly revered director has described h...
Will Gore
The best of the Catholic blogosphere
✣ highlights from the week online hats off to the fun and practical saturno catholic bloggers leapt to the defence of the clerical he...
Staff writers
The rediscovery of Catholic art
in 1563, a year before his son was born, john shakespeare was given an unpleasant job. as chamberlain of the corporation of stratford, he wa...
Dan Hitchens
Martin Scorsese interview: ‘Catholicism is always in you’
martin scorsese is talking about vocations. it’s s a subject he knows something about, having studied at a seminary when he was a young man....
Gabrielle Donnelly
Oh, Boris! But actually, he was spot on
when my children were under the age of five, there was a book we enjoyed reading called oh, boris! it was the story of a large, enthusiastic...
Jenny McCartney
The party must go on – yes, into February
one of the downsides of starting christmas so soon is that it finishes too soon. obviously, if the season starts commercially just after hal...
Melanie McDonagh
The saint with Aristotle on his finger
washington dc martin scorsese’s newly released film about jesuit missionaries in japan, silence, joins other films on the courageous jesuit ...
Fr Raymond de Souza
The silence that makes us tremble
nicolas diat: what connection do you make between silence and the sacred? cardinal robert sarah: the idea of the sacred is particularly misu...
Cardinal Robert Sarah
Holiness is not to be sneered at
there is something about a great many saints that annoys and even angers some people. thus the recent canonisation of mother teresa revived ...
Richard Ingrams
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