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Scottish archbishop launches Mass-finding app
The new app will help Catholics discover where their nearest Mass and Confession is taking place
Staff Reporter
The big story of the past seven days
✣ trump wins catholic vote by clear margin what happened? media coverage in the run-up to the us election made much of donald trump’s...
Staff writers
Britain, too, persecutes Christians
i was born in the aftermath of the second world war, when families had lost lives, limbs and homes to the nazis, yet oswald mosley and colin...
Ann Widdecombe
Doctor Strange takes some spiritual medicine
scott derrickson’s new film, doctor strange, has received rave reviews for its special effects, its compelling storytelling and the quality ...
Bishop Robert Barron
Fine art: Bob Dylan lets his pictures do the talking
when bob dylan was awarded the nobel prize for literature, a tremendous fuss was made – both by those exalting the decision, and others who ...
Will Gore
Art preview: Van Gogh meets David Bowie at White Cube
anselm kiefer can be seen to resemble david bowie, in the way that he in some way uses the deeds of the hard right (in kiefer’s case nazism)...
Miguel Cullen
How Civilisation led Kenneth Clark to Rome
kenneth clark by james stourton, william collins, £30 when i opened james stourton’s “authorised” biography of the art historian and broadca...
William Cash
Loving and loathing Margaret Thatcher
a history of britain in 21 women by jenni murray, oneworld, £16.99 celebrated for presenting woman’s hour for nearly 30 years, jenni murray ...
Charlie Hegarty
Saint of the week: Pope Clement I (November 23)
ordained by peter in the eucharistic prayer, when the priest invokes “linus, cletus, clement …” he is referring to st peter’s successors as ...
Staff Reporter
Why dark nights of the soul?
atheism is a parasite that feeds on bad religion. that’s why, in the end, atheistic critics are our friends. they hold our feet to the fire....
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
The beauty of Ordinariate liturgy can help Anglicans embrace Catholicism
Liturgy and ecumenism go hand in hand, as Vatican II's documents demonstrate
Fr James Bradley
US bishops urged to do more to help persecuted Christians
The bishops were advised to give more attention to attacks on the religious freedom of Christians
Catholic News Service
Iraqi Catholics return to church ransacked by ISIS
A tomb had been desecrated and statue of the Virgin Mary was decapitated at the St Addai Chaldean Catholic church
Associated Press
So long, Leonard: thank you for helping me to find God
He was mocked as a miserablist, but he brought beauty out of the gloom
Dr David Cowan
Iraqi priests celebrate Mass in church liberated from ISIS
The ransacked church had been in ISIS's hands for two years
Susan Byron
New book contains hundreds of Cardinal Bergoglio's homilies
In his notes for the book Pope Francis said even in St Peter's Square he tries 'to look at a precise face' rather than just a crowd
Catholic News Service
At an Ordinariate Mass, I witnessed the real spirit of Vatican II
The Ordinariate has achieved the 'noble simplicity' recommended by the Council Fathers
Stephen Bullivant
Church leaders pay tribute to Leonard Cohen
Vatican cardinal quotes lyrics while an archbishop hails him as 'one of the voices of the age'
Staff Reporter
What’s inside this week’s magazine?
Take a look inside this week's Catholic Herald
Staff writers
Are Koreans the world’s most dynamic Catholics?
The Vatican wants the Korean Church to evangelise the rest of Asia. That could be only the beginning
Kirsteen Kim
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