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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
UK pro-life groups express alarm over three-parent baby plans
Babies made from two women and one man have been approved by the UK's fertility regulator
Madeleine Teahan
The best of the Catholic blogosphere
✣ highlights from the week online santa versus arius: a myth we need to drop at the national catholic register, steven greydanus took...
Staff writers
Seminaries urged to teach climate change
the nurturing of holy, healthy and humble priests requires prayers for vocations and the careful selection and training of candidates, the c...
Staff writers
Colin Brazier: The rough and tumble of large family life
notwithstanding the reality of earning a crust by appearing on television daily, i remain a shy soul. my wife, by contrast, loves to show of...
Colin Brazier
A gleaming Catholic buckle in the Bible Belt
greenville, south carolina, was not a place i knew before i came to america just over three-and-a-half years ago. it is a smart modern town ...
Fr James Bradley
Mary Kenny: Don’t boss people into being British
i’m not sure that immigrants swearing an allegiance to britain – as dame louise casey has suggested, lamenting the lack of integration among...
Mary Kenny
Comments of the Week
we need to pray for president-elect trump sir – the issue of abortion and the right to life of unborn children right across the western worl...
The Catholic Herald
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