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Jesus’s message of peace on earth and goodwill ‘needed as much as ever’, Queen says
her majesty the queen has said that the christian message of "peace on earth and goodwill" is "needed as much as ever". in her annual christ...
Staff Reporter
Cardinal Nichols's Christmas message to Catholic Herald readers
central to our faith is our belief in 'the holy catholic church'. it was this that pope francis chose to emphasise in his closing remarks at...
Cardinal Vincent Nichols
Senators quiz nominee about membership of ‘extreme’ Knights of Columbus
members of the senate judiciary committee have questioned a candidate for the federal bench over his membership of the knights of columbus, ...
Ed Condon/CNA
Pope Francis meets Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad
Murad, who was enslaved by ISIS, received the Nobel prize for her 'efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war'
Courtney Grogan/CNA
Heretic of the week
"mother” ann lee (1736-1784) was born to a family of poor english quakers in manchester. baptised at age six in what is now the anglican man...
Charles Coulombe
How to … Spend Boxing Day
the correct term, of course, is st stephen’s day: we mark the first martyr of the early church, a reminder that the infant jesus, in his inf...
The Catholic Herald
The Word this week
the christmas story, as related in the gospels, furnishes the background for memories that reach back to childhood. few of us, either as chi...
Bishop David McGough
The untold life of the woman who wrote 'In the Bleak Midwinter'
this, surely, is one of the most poetic of christmas carols: in the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, earth stood hard as iron, water ...
Mary Kenny
Bruce Springsteen rediscovers his Catholic roots
eternity is calling bruce springsteen, and it’s drawing him back to his childhood parish church, whose steeple cast a long shadow over his w...
Sohrab Ahmari
Ukrainian Catholic leader welcomes head of new independent Orthodox church
the head of the ukrainian catholic church has welcomed the election of a leader for the country's new independent orthodox church. in kiev o...
Jonathan Luxmoore
True Christmas celebrates Jesus, Pope says
with christmas just over a week away, visitors came to st peter's square with their baby jesus figurines for a traditional blessing by the p...
Carol Glatz
For his 82nd birthday party, Pope Francis hosts sick children
ahead of his 82nd birthday, pope francis held a party and ate birthday cake with children under the care of a free health clinic inside the ...
Hannah Brockhaus/CNA
Pope Francis: Rejoice! God hears your prayers
God’s loving care for his children is a cause for rejoicing, the Pope said on Gaudete Sunday
Hannah Brockhaus/CNA
Cardinal shocked to learn ex-vicar general sent two clerical abusers to US
an english cardinal has told an inquiry into child abuse of his shock at learning that a vicar general of his former archdiocese tried to he...
Simon Caldwell
Heretic of the week: James Pike
james pike (1913-1969) had an enormous importance. born and raised a catholic (and believing he might have a vocation), pike lost his faith ...
Charles Coulombe
How to... Use Holy Water
water covers two-thirds of the earth’s surface, and makes up almost the same proportion of the human body. no living thing, from the giant s...
The Catholic Herald
First universities rejected God - now they're banishing the human spirit
i have to admit that a great deal bothers me today, and much of it has to do with higher education. this is only partly because i have retur...
Charles Coulombe
From full-time mums to nurses, Britain is failing its carers
Politics is hopelessly biased against care and domesticity
David Goodhart
Sisters versus human traffickers
here’s an interesting experiment: next time you are in a group of people – catholic or not – ask them to name two anti-slavery organisations...
Luke de Pulford and Sister Lynda Dearlove
As churches are demolished in China, the Chinese are building them elsewhere
close to the holy family minor basilica, nairobi’s catholic cathedral, a team of chinese engineers can be seen directing work on a building ...
Francis Njuguna
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