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That sober Baptist Thomas Cook couldn't have imagined today's travellers
it took the collapse of the travel company thomas cook – with the many reports of british tourists stranded abroad, sometimes in dire s...
Mary Kenny
Countdown to barbarism: time is running out to save a pro-life oasis
in her dystopian novel the children of men, pd james foresaw a united kingdom of mass infertility; where democracy decays as parliament is d...
David Alton
Amid Israel's election turmoil, the Church is keeping a low profile
the recent general election in israel, the second this year, has confirmed the country’s political gridlock. veteran prime minister benjamin...
Jon Anderson
Eritrea's crackdown and the Church's dilemma
the showdown between the eritrean government and the catholic church shows no sign of abating. four catholic schools have been seized by the...
James Jeffrey
The iconoclastic senator winning admirers among 'post-liberal' Catholics
he is, according to the liberal blogger ed kilgore of new york magazine, “the face of the post-trump right”. and the iconoclastic misso...
Jordan Bloom
The Polish exodus from the UK could contribute to Catholic decline
many of the poles who moved to britain over the last 15 years are considering a return to their home country, according to recent reports. w...
Simon Caldwell
World news: from Alto Solimões to Asmara
buffalo poll: catholics hope bishop malone steps down an opinion poll has found widespread discontent with bishop richard malone of buffalo,...
Staff writers
Marx's revolutionary synod
in the 1940s, a jesuit theologian named henri bouillard proclaimed that a theology that is not “up to date” is a “false theology”. at such a...
C C Pecknold
Two very different Catholics battle to be Canada's PM
canadians are famous for saying sorry. it’s the default setting for public encounters; a busy railway station or airport is a cacophony of c...
Fr Raymond de Souza
Why is the Church not standing up for parental rights?
across the world, parents are engaged in battles with local and national governments over their right to decide how sex education is taught ...
David Paton
Diary: England's best new work of sacred art for years
as someone who is wading very slowly towards a dphil in the history of art and architecture, i get to spend rather a lot of time thinking ab...
Stephen Withnell
Britain will be judged by the way it treats Tafida
last week the high court heard the tragic case of tafida raqeeb, now aged five, who suffered a devastating intracranial bleed on february 9 ...
The Catholic Herald
Our cultural roots are in Latin and Greek
teenagers are studying latin in large numbers. some 7,000 pupils took the gcse this year, 150 more than in 2018, according to the exam board...
Alexander Jolliffe
What role should the clergy play in a Catholic education?
in david lodge’s 2001 novel thinks, the protagonist helen reed muses on her catholic schooling: “i’m deeply grateful that i had a catholic e...
The Catholic Herald
Leading Catholic school headmaster: 'Boys will turn off if you patronise them'
every year the london oratory school, a boys’ academy which takes girls at sixth form, has 1,000 applicants from across london for the 160 p...
The Catholic Herald
We're in danger of breeding a generation of namby-pambies
"the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom," says john proctor as fear and vengeance stalk the village of salem in the ...
The Catholic Herald
Will Catholic schools resist state pressure on sex education?
in 2007, the government shut down catholic adoption agencies. they didn’t put it like that, of course: they just insisted that, as a result ...
Dan Hitchens
Editor's letter
while researching our schools supplement i spoke to a gentleman who, despite not being a catholic himself, had chosen to send his children t...
The Catholic Herald
How to … Become a cardinal
these days, the prospects of becoming a cardinal are no longer increased by being a nephew of a reigning pope or by belonging to an illustri...
The Catholic Herald
The composer who turned agony into golden harmonies
in the early 1980s, i was lucky enough to sing evensong four times a week with the chapel choir of jesus college, cambridge. it was always a...
Peter Davison
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