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Our mental health services are vital – but they have their limitations
it is often said that we take our health for granted until something happens to it. i think this is never more the case than with mental hea...
Fr Dominic Allain
A refreshing guide to an 'objectively superior' way of life
a living sacrifice by fr benedict croell op and fr andrew hofer op vianney vocations, 277pp, £20/$22 the evening before basil hume’s funeral...
The Catholic Herald
Letters & emails
why we dare to call god ‘father’ sir – steve larkin (charterhouse, july 5) reminds us that fr frederick faber used to speak of our lady as “...
The Catholic Herald
What Leana Wen didn't know
last week, the department of health and human services announced that clinics referring mothers for abortion services would no longer be abl...
C C Pecknold
Iraqi immigrants supported Trump. So why is his administration deporting them?
poor st thomas is the only apostle remembered not for his faith, but for his doubt. and yet, having placed his hands in christ’s wounds...
Michael Warren Davis
Planned Parenthood's nightmare month
planned parenthood has had a bad month. its president left the organisation last week after serving for less than a year, the trump administ...
Jordan Bloom
The week in quotations
"to do everything possible to stop this humanitarian catastrophe" what pope francis asked of syrian leader bashar al-assad st...
Staff writers
It wasn't Colonel Blimp who gave us Brexit
anglo nostalgia by edoardo campanella and marta dassù hurst publications, 234pp, £25/$32.95 there has for some time been a popular theory th...
Patrick West
The Last Czars on Netflix: What did the Romanovs do to deserve this?
the last czars, on netflix, juggles documentary and drama with mixed results. the documentary sections, with commentary from a half dozen or...
Carl Curtis
The moon landings? We were more interested in Ted Kennedy
fifty years on, the moon landing of july 1969 still seems an extraordinary feat: perhaps even more extraordinary in retrospect, as the accom...
Mary Kenny
The vote that made me wish I was back in Iraq
i’m afraid this is a very depressing story. i was in the house of commons last week, after a trip to iraq, giving a talk on what life was li...
Tim Stanley
Cardinal Sarah: A prophet of our times
the church’s calendar includes the feast days of several of the great figures of the old testament (though observing them is not obligatory)...
Fr Raymond de Souza
Diary: I wanted to weep when the Mozart of Wimbledon lost
like so many others, i spent my sunday afternoon trying to watch the cricket world cup and wimbledon finals at the same time. i tried c...
Freddy Gray
Is France about to follow Belgium on euthanasia?
it’s escaped most of the world’s attention, but france has been fixated in recent months on the case of vincent lambert a 42-year-old brain-...
Samuel Gregg
The week in quotations
"if the world continues to do nothing, the result will be the elimination of the christian presence" bishop laurent birfuoré dabiré of ...
Staff writers
The week ahead: Abortion vigil, Newman talks, canonisation tickets
cincinnati catholics will be praying to end abortion tomorrow, in the weekly event at holy name catholic church, 2448 auburn avenue. mass wi...
Staff writers
The big story: Vincent Lambert dies after withdrawal of food and water
what happened? vincent lambert, the severely disabled frenchman who was at the centre of a legal battle, has died after his doctors cut off ...
Staff writers
Burma, not Belgium, is the future of the Church
which country produces the most priests relative to the size of its catholic population? is it brazil, the powerhouse of latin american cath...
The Catholic Herald
Heretic of the week: Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian
apostasy is a bad thing, whoever may do it; but it seems particularly bad when it happens to a scion of one of those grand recusant families...
Charles Coulombe
The Martins didn't know they were saints – but they wanted to be
if your only catholic association for the date of july 12 was hitherto the painful one of the battle of the boyne, a new and beautiful one c...
Fr Dominic Allain
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