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Briefly noted

my life – my prayer by elizabeth ruth obbard (new city, £5.95) . this simplified and illustrated autobiography of st teresa of avila by a we...

Staff writers

Omnium Gatherum

on june 29 we venerate the memory of st peter, prince of the apostles, and st paul, apostle to the gentiles, both martyrs whose blood nouris...

Fr John Zuhlsdorf

Saint of the week: Irenaeus (June 28)

in the line of st john the life of st irenaeus was almost within touching distance of the disciples: he was a follower of st polycarp, who h...

Staff Reporter

No mention of Catholic schools promise in Queen's Speech

The Conservatives had promised to abolish the 'unfair' admissions cap that effectively prevents the Church from opening new schools

Nick Hallett

Head of Vatican pro-life academy defends appointment of Nigel Biggar

The Anglican philosopher, recently appointed to the Pontifical Academy for Life, has supported abortion up to 18 weeks

Dan Hitchens

Church offers counselling to children affected by Grenfell Tower fire

"What they have witnessed was incredibly shocking. Television and media can only touch on it."

Simon Caldwell

Cardinal Sarah: priests 'demean' gay people by not calling them to chastity

The cardinal said that omitting Jesus's 'hard sayings' is not charitable

Staff Reporter

Catholics in Scotland 'fear being open about their faith', says bishops' conference official

The director of the bishops' parliamentary office said Catholics face 'alarming levels of intolerance'

Staff Reporter

Catholics pray for congressman in 'critical condition' after shooting

Parishioners in Louisiana pray for Steve Scalise, a Republican congressman and member of the parish who was shot by a lone gunman

Peter Finney Jr

Papal almoner gives up flat for a Syrian refugee family

Archbishop Krajewski, who now sleeps in his office, said offering his flat 'doesn't cost me anything'

Staff Reporter

The big story of the past seven days

✣   francis presents ultimatum to nigerian priests what happened? pope francis has intervened in a dispute between the bishop of ahiara...

Staff writers

Queen receives new apostolic nuncio to Britain

the queen received the new apostolic nuncio last week as he began his tenure in britain. the vatican appointed archbishop edward joseph adam...

Staff writers

Can Catholics trust the DUP?

as the catholic herald went to press, it was unclear whether theresa may would formalise a deal with the democratic unionist party (dup). su...

Dan Hitchens

Why we’re struggling to defeat extremism

isis recruits are often portrayed in the west as having been ordinary people prior to some sudden moment of radicalisation, shortly before t...

Gerard Russell

Mass helps me be a better mother

my daughter is nine years old and we are preparing for her first holy communion. as a result, we have become more regular churchgoers than i...

Alex Polizzi

I attacked the ordinariate. Now I’m a Catholic

autumn 2007 haverhill, massachusetts, is a rusty, decaying old industrial town. it peaked in the 1940s, when it was the hub of shoemaking an...

Michael Warren Davis

Mary Kenny: Politics is becoming a vintage comedy

how history repeats itself – ironically, if not farcically. more than 100 years ago, the irish parliamentary party held the balance of power...

Mary Kenny

Word this week

the body and blood of christ deut 8:2-3 & 14-16; 1 cor 10:16-17; jn 6:51-58 (year a) ‘remember how the lord your god led you for 40 year...

Bishop David McGough

Bishop's engagements

cardinal nichols (westminster) sun: celebration of mass, golden jubilee, church of the sacred heart, park street, berkhamsted, hp4 1hx, 10.3...

The Catholic Herald

Piers Paul Read: My journey from Mao to May

i once met theresa may at a seminar organised by the think tank politeia on a subject that i cannot now remember. there were a dozen or so o...

Piers Paul Read

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