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Vatican laicises U.S. pro-life activist priest for 'blasphemous' communications
the vatican has laicised an internationally renowned pro-life activist priest for “blasphemous communications on social media”. fr frank pav...
Simon Caldwell
Harry and Meghan epitomise the standard of an unbelieving world
the whole netflix watching world has been talking about harry and meghan this week. the fact that their documentary, entitled - y...
Katherine Bennett
Lay people can change the Church for the better
today’s financial challenges should be a catalyst for change in the catholic church , writes james somerville-meikle the catholic church sho...
James Somerville-Meikle
How emperors protected the Papacy from bad popes and created Western Civilization
in the december issue, piers paul read reminded readers of the times when christianity was persecuted. this is not untimely, given the re-co...
James Bogle
Church and state's uneasy relationship
the coercive power of the state is found from the start of the story of our salvation; it’s in the nativity story itself and the feasts that...
Piers Paul Read
The Irish Church: saints and sinners
"writers are often loners; journalists are sociable.” so says mary kenny, but in self-identifying as gregarious journalist rather than intro...
Dr Roy Foster
Catholic Herefordshire
unlike its neighbours of shropshire to the north and worcestershire to the east, herefordshire was not richly endowed with monastic establis...
Michael Hodges
The smell of old books
remainders of the day shaun bythell profile, £16.99, 377 pages once upon a tome oliver darkshire bantam press, £14.99, 244 pages graham gree...
Alexander Larman
Helping homeless young people
the past three years have been tough for many in the uk. coronavirus, and most recently the economic downturn and the dramatic rise in the c...
Hugh Kerr
GK Chesterton's 'enjoyable nightmare' before Christmas
christmas is for many of us a nightmare: relatives, trying not to buy them the same present again, sticking to a budget, and only going beyo...
Daniel Frampton
Antonia Nonagenaria
it was over lunch at le poule au pot towards the end of july that i suggested that lady antonia fraser might give the catholic herald an int...
Serenhedd James
Let's make the most of advent to appreciate Christmas
many of our readers will receive this christmas edition of the catholic herald in advent – the time of arriving, the beginning of the church...
The Catholic Herald
New lamps for old
it occurred to me, after i had scattered a handful of earth on the small coffin, six feet below, that my world had changed forever. not in a...
Serenhedd James
Joy is the perfect antidote to our angry and unforgiving post-Christian dystopia
the uk is officially post-christian. it is “the first time in a census of england and wales that fewer than half of the population have desc...
Laura Perrins
Cardinal Sarah issues warning on religious freedom
“democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others,” insisted winston churchill. less famously, he went on to say that th...
Gavin Ashenden
Diary: the Knights Hospitaller, the Holy Land, and the miracle of birth
i recently returned from a pilgrimage with the british association of the order of malta to the holy land. our visits to the holy places rem...
Mgr John Armitage
Balenciaga: what does the fashion house scandal mean?
the devil doesn’t always wear balenciaga, writes katherine bennett during my teens i fell in with a crowd of disaffected older youths. ...
Katherine Bennett
Down's woman vows to fight abortion law discrimination in Supreme Court
a woman with down’s syndrome is to take her fight to halt abortions up to birth for babies with her genetic condition after the court of app...
Simon Caldwell
Canada's hellish euthanasia laws
does life have no value anymore? asks simon caldwell for a language which to the english ear occasionally sounds guttural, german also conta...
Simon Caldwell
Welsh government's aggressive attack on childhood innocence
the battle against compulsory sex education for minors ought to be of major concern to all of us who care deeply about protecting the innoce...
Edmund Adamus
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