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How do we feed a million children a day? Only by the grace of God
Our continuing work is testament to the great graces of mercy we have received during this year
Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow
Virgin and Child ‘a glimpse of what we lost’
a medieval virgin and child that survived the ravages of the reformation has returned to england for the first time in 600 years. the alabas...
Staff writers
Pope asks world leaders to ‘banish violence’
pope francis has called for a new style of politics built on peace and pleaded for disarmament, the eradication of nuclear weapons and an en...
Staff writers
Libby Purves: Is my crib hobby getting out of hand?
the other day, in a brief, frivolous chunnel-hop to lille christmas market, i tried to reclaim a mental map of what was my home town in the ...
Libby Purves
A success story in fighting homelessness
caritas anchor house grabbed the headlines last year when, after an epic struggle with hmrc, it forced the taxman to give up its quest to fo...
Andrew Cusack
Mary Kenny: The Nativity story in a child’s face
in the first week of december, i received a christmas gift which will have given me more joy than any material object i can imagine: a photo...
Mary Kenny
Comments of the Week
the attacks on pope francis are reminiscent of the pharisees testing jesus sir – the wolves are circling around pope francis. a quick search...
The Catholic Herald
The third coming of Christ
‘the coming of our god, our thoughts must now employ.” these words set the tone for our approach to christmas. the famous advent sermon of s...
Cardinal Vincent Nichols
The shirt that led St Thomas More to God
the reputation of st thomas more has for centuries survived the “shafts of falsehood and of folly”, to borrow a phrase of william cobbett, t...
Simon Caldwell
Staying friends after Brexit
w hen pope john xxiii called for the second vatican council in 1959, he did not know fully what would be its outcome. he had an instinct, an...
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor
The sacredness that secularism can’t hide
i first cared about being catholic, not out of any profound love for the person of christ, but out of a profound distaste for my other optio...
Marc Barnes
Theatre: House of Commons drama gets my vote
james graham’s docudrama, this house , was first seen at the national theatre in 2012, and jeremy herrin’s fast-moving and exhilarating prod...
Robert Tanitch
The afterlife of American apartheid
negroland: a memoir by margo jefferson, granta, £12.99 in this beautifully evoked narrative of her childhood and youth in chicago in the 195...
Charlie Hegarty
Saint of the week: St John the Evangelist (December 27)
a close friend of jesus st john the evangelist was the son of zebedee and salome and they lived on the galilean shores. st john’s much older...
Staff Reporter
Pictures of the week
1 pupils from woldingham school in surrey sing at a carol service in westminster cathedral. 2 boys from wimbledon college pray 125 decades o...
The Catholic Herald
Incarnation – God is with us
for many of us, i suspect, it gets harder each year to capture the mood of christmas. about the only thing that still warms us are memories:...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Catholic schools contemplating academy status should tread very carefully
The Government has said no school will be forced to become an academy, but it now seems inevitable that most will convert at some point
Fr Matthew Pittam
The key to true friendship? Christlike self-sacrifice
Experience shows that 'laying down one's life' is a mark of real love
Francis Phillips
Vatican court finds three El Salvador priests guilty of child abuse
One of the priests, Mgr Jesus Delgado, was a close associate of Blessed Oscar Romero
Associated Press
Pope Francis eats with homeless on 80th birthday
Francis received 70,000 emails wishing him many happy returns
Associated Press
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