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Omnium Gatherum

the german writer josef pieper ( d 1997) described our supernatural life as having three main currents. first, we have knowledge of god surp...

Fr John Zuhlsdorf

The power of a compliment

thomas aquinas once suggested that it’s a sin not to give a compliment to someone when it’s deserved, because by withholding our praise we’r...

Fr Ronald Rolheiser

The big story of the past seven days

✣ ✣ argentina’s senate rejects abortion on demand what happened? the argentine senate rejected a bill legalising abortion on demand for the ...

Staff writers

The new destitution

co-written with andrew dorsey last month, as the school holidays began, children and teachers breathed a sigh of relief. but at one school i...

Frank Field

Pro-life charity launches legal action after being evicted from London show

'Life' claim Lambeth Council breached their right to freedom of expression

Alex Defert

Joyce Kilmer: the ‘Apostle to Bohemia’ who died in battle

On the centenary of his death, Joyce Kilmer speaks to our own turmoil

Amy Fahey

Please don't forget us, says head of Ukrainian Catholic Church

Major Archbishop Shevchuk called on Western nations not to ignore the country in favour of Russia

Catholic News Service

A fairer media and powerful pro-life women: how Argentina succeeded where Ireland failed

Pro-abortion campaigners used similar tactics in both countries, but Argentina resisted

'We need to be prepared to be really counter-cultural': How Catholic parents can raise saints

Roy Peachey explains the secrets to good Catholic education

Francis Phillips

Top Catholic schools 'prioritised reputations of monks over child safety', says damning report

There was a 'culture of acceptance of abusive behaviour' at Ampleforth and Downside, the report says

Staff Reporter

Our Catholic heritage is full of treasures. Let's bring them into the classroom

We need a revived Catholic curriculum to reclaim our cultural inheritance, from Bede to 'Lepanto'

Michael Merrick

Penalty time

pope francis is changing the catechism of the catholic church in order to declare that the death penalty is “inadmissible” – in other words,...

The Catholic Herald

Britain: Moving the goalposts on euthanasia

the supreme court takes another step away from church teaching there is utter clarity about catholic teaching on the withdrawal of clinicall...

Simon Caldwell

Religious freedom: Travel ban

a ban on adverts from religious groups on public transport in dc has been upheld last tuesday, the us court of appeals for the district of c...

Michael Warren Davis

How Walsingham began

england’s greatest shrine of our lady, one among almost 100 in medieval times when devotion to our lady was at its height, began in 1061 as ...

Fr Michael Rear

‘She will always be 20’

for des mclindon, august 1968 is “just a haze”. yet as his mind spools back half a century, there are pictures, pieces of memory of a partic...

Simon Hart

Science and faith: Nudges and the Nobel

the benedictine asked his abbot for permission to smoke while he was praying. not only was this refused but he was punished for even asking....

Quentin de la Bedoyere

A curriculum to reflect who we are

in 1905, one miss agnew sat at her desk in carlisle and sketched out the “scheme of instruction” for the poor catholic boys and girls of st ...

Michael Merrick

Argentine Senate rejects abortion bill

Senators defeated a measure that would have legalised abortion for any reason up to 14 weeks

Nick Hallett

Brazil Church leaders speak against decriminalisation of abortion

'The right to life is the most fundamental of rights,' the Bishop of Rio Grande said

Lise Alves

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