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Flooding damages St Mark's Basilica in Venice

St Mark's 'aged 20 years in one day,' the basilica's procurator Carlo Alberto Tesserin said

Courtney Grogan/CNA

Despite the Pope's best efforts, the Youth Synod lacked any sense of urgency

The evangelical zeal I've encountered in many young people was missing from the Synod

Fr Raymond de Souza

The Pittsburgh shooting threatens the very foundation of the American Dream

This sort of anti-Semitic violence is poison to the American soul

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

Defend Church from those who seek to destroy it, Pope says at synod

Francis tells bishops that 'through us, the great accuser wants to attack' mother Church

Junno Arocho Esteves

We could guess the outcome of this Synod before it started

The Synod Fathers will end up saying whatever the Pope says they said

Christopher R. Altieri

The Catholic Herald is launching in America

We will celebrate the riches of Catholicism and promote accountability in the Church

William Cash

Grace Kelly, Rita Hayworth and two kinds of American Catholicism

Grace Kelly took the route of assimilation. Hayworth remained exotic

Matthew Schmitz

Diary: by William Cash

in a month’s time, i will be boarding a plane to washington for the launch of the new american weekly edition of the catholic herald. this i...

William Cash

The romantic Catholicism of Rita Hayworth

if one were to tell the story of catholic america in the 20th century, one could do worse than contrast the careers of grace kelly and rita ...

Matthew Schmitz

Germany: A shade of green

merkel’s hand is weakened as her csu ally loses power in its catholic heartland angela merkel’s faltering government has been dealt another ...

Jon Anderson

Word this week

the 30th sunday of the year jer 31:7-9; heb 5:1-6; mk 10:46-52 (year b) the prophet jeremiah was an unwelcome voice to his contemporaries in...

Bishop David McGough

The epiphanies of a Norwegian Trappist

the shattering of loneliness: on christian remembrance by erik varden ocso, bloomsbury, 192pp £10.99 the cistercian community of mount st be...

Hugh Somerville-Knapman OSB

Islam is everywhere in today’s art world

one of the most significant cultural events of the year took place at the british museum last week: the glitzy new albukhary foundation gall...

Lucien de Guise

Prize crossword 0565

cryptic across 5 nice almuce worn to a particular church council (10) 7 diminutive girl’s drone about to land in central american (6) 8 cler...

Alun Evans

Oscott seminary rejects 'gay subculture' claims

A former formation tutor alleged that seminary authorities were failing to confront a problem

Staff Reporter

Supreme Court may hear another wedding cake case

The couple declined to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding, citing their religious views

Catholic News Agency

Is dying a form of art?

A new book urges us to rediscover the art of dying well

Francis Phillips

Chapter & verse: The kitchen-table genius of a Catholic poet

allan massie reflects on the life and work of the orkney poet george mackay brown, who saw holiness in the natural world george mackay brown...

Allan Massie

Mankind’s troubling new frontiers

most people, i believe, want to be kind, want to be tolerant, and want, indeed, to follow the christian precept of “love thy neighbour”. one...

Mary Kenny

Music: Spending too long in the trenches

in the coming weeks there will be no escape from world war i commemorations. in the concert hall, onstage and in exhibition spaces we’ll be ...

Michael White

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