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Christian charity must be supported by prayer, says Pope
fidelity to christ is the "secret" to every effective work of christian charity, so every activity of outreach to the poor and suffering sho...
Catholic News Service
US bishops' pro-life chief: pro-abortion politicians should not receive communion
for their own good, catholic politicians who support abortion must not receive communion, the chair of the us bishops’ pro-life committee ha...
Staff Reporter
Why clerical beards divide the Eastern and Western Church
the wearing of beards by clergy is a topic historically fraught with contradiction. but before we explore those contradictions, i owe you th...
Charles Coulombe
Private education is unfair, but is there anything we can do about it?
engines of privilege by francis green and david kynaston bloomsbury, 320pp, £20/$28 gilded youth by james brooke-smith reaktion, 272pp, £18/...
Harry Mount
Letters & emails
a papal visit and a war the world forgot sir – why don’t we care about yemen? the question is posed following your coverage (february 8 edit...
The Catholic Herald
St Paul can help us tackle the curse of opioid addiction
i first learned about the opioid affliction in america on reading jd vance’s marvellous memoir hillbilly elegy – his story about growing up ...
Mary Kenny
How to survive a secular workplace
one of the alarming effects of living in a society less and less beholden to traditional christian morality is that many catholics find them...
William Newton
The most distressing thing about the Jussie Smollett case
the police reckon jussie smollett made it all up. they say the black, gay, openly 36-year-old actor orchestrated an assault on his person – ...
Tim Stanley
When was the last time you set aside an hour for self-examination?
before he was elected pope, joseph ratzinger spoke of socrates as “in a certain respect the prophet of jesus christ”. he saw him as a philos...
Quentin de la Bedoyere
Will the abuse summit be a turning point for the Church?
the vatican’s clerical abuse summit was many things at the same time, some of them contradictory. the summit was the sixth major initiative ...
Fr Raymond de Souza
What Catholics can learn from Ethiopia's Pentecostal PM
at the end of last month, pope francis welcomed africa’s most-watched young leader to the vatican. abiy ahmed, prime minister of ethiopia, a...
Fr Alistair Jones, OP
The best of the web: Tolkien, campus censorship and interactive catechesis
tolkien’s response to clerical errors at offerimus tibi domine , fr simon henry examined the question of church “scandals” in the light of a...
Staff writers
The most overlooked story of the week: Council agrees to pay damages to pro-life group
what happened? a london council has agreed to pay £5,000 damages to a pro-life charity. last year, the life charity was expelled from a fair...
Staff writers
Traditional Latin Mass attendees more devout and orthodox, study says
catholics in the us who attend the traditional latin mass a far more faithful to church teaching than those who attend the novus ordo, a sur...
Staff Reporter
Files naming abusers were destroyed, says cardinal
transparent, reliable and respectful administration is critical for counteracting sinful behavior within the catholic church, said german ca...
Carol Glatz
If you read just one speech from the abuse summit, make it this one
(rome — february 23rd, 2019) there’s one speech you need to read from the saturday sessions of the vatican’s child protection meeting — a da...
Christopher R. Altieri
Trump administration strips $60 million funds from Planned Parenthood
the trump administration finalized new federal rules on friday, by which abortion clinics will be ineligible to receive title x program fund...
Christine Rousselle/CNA
Letters from the Vatican #5
at the beginning of february, a month in which an intense, global media spotlight has been focused on the catholicism’s struggles with cleri...
Xavier Rynne II
Letters from the Vatican #4
“ grant, we pray, almighty god, that no tempests may disturb us, for you have set us fast on the rock of the apostle peter’s confession of f...
Xavier Rynne II
Shamima Begum's son didn't choose ISIS
the woman selling daily papers at the supermarket pointed to a picture of shamima begum, the “jihadi bride” who now wants to return to brita...
Mary Kenny
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