Soul

Why weren't we consulted about England’s great cathedrals becoming nightclubs?

when a group of christians stood outside canterbury cathedral on a cool evening in february this year singing hymns and praying in reparatio...
Philip Campbell

800 years of Britain's Franciscan heritage celebrated on pilgrimage from Dover Beach to Canterbury

while it was yet twilight a figure appeared silently and suddenly on a little hill above the city, dark against the fading darkness. .. the ...
James Somerville-Meikle

Aboard the 'VAMP' rollercoaster as papal press corps keeps up with Pope Francis

after returning from the sprawling 12-day trip to asia and oceania with pope francis, i find myself in my usual post-papal-trip state. exhau...
Elise Allen

Self-professed archbishop known for ‘healings and exorcisms’ denounced by Rome

a self-professed catholic bishop and primate has been denounced by the diocese of rome as a fraud, following concerns raised by the diocese ...
Crux Staff

"Dominus meus et Deus meus": St Thomas the Apostle encourages us to cast aside our own doubts

there’s a story about the atheist philosopher bertrand russell being asked what he would say if he found himself standing before god on the ...
Fr Robert Verrill OP

FEATURE: Discovering the lesser known corners of Catholic England

i have long been collecting the macmillan highways and byways series, published between 1898 and 1948. each book covers a different area of ...
Fr Nicholas Schofield

New Plymouth bishop named seven months after shock cancellation of first choice

the pope has announced a new bishop of plymouth after the original choice was mysteriously cancelled earlier this year. francis has named au...
Simon Caldwell

Can a skyscraper represent love? Pope Francis says it can in Singapore

singapore – surrounded by a city-state whose urban core contains more than 100 high-rise structures straining towards the sky, pope francis ...
Elise Ann Allen

Robert F Kennedy is bringing Desert Father mysticism to US election – it's needed

there have been many times in both the recent uk parliamentary election, and the forthcoming us presidential election, when i have been remi...
Mark Jenkins

Pope’s voyage between third and first worlds is a microcosm of his papacy and 11-year message

singapore – pope francis travelled from one of the world’s poorest nations to one of its richest on 11 september, leaving behind the dusty b...
Elise Allen

Augustinian friars return to Walsingham at Catholic National Shrine for first time since Reformation

three african friars are coming to the catholic national shrine and basilica of our lady at walsingham, where they will assist and serve the...
Tom Colsy

Pope Francis arrives in Singapore: will he address China is the big question

singapore – pope francis has landed in singapore at the start of the final stage of his 12-day odyssey to asia and oceania. he is expected t...
Elise Ann Allen

Not a bad turnout: Pope’s Mass attended by 600,000 – nearly half of East Timor's population

dili – an estimated 600,000 catholics attended the mass celebrated by pope francis on his last day in east timor. it meant that nearly half ...
Elise Ann Allen

The subtle Catholic spirituality vying with the dangerous darkness in Pope Francis’s ‘peripheries’

port moresby – the capital city of papua new guinea, and one of the most crime-ridden cities in the world, is a classic example of what pope...
Elise Allen

Thanks, but no thanks: Francis's support of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church rebuffed

rome – if ever proof were needed of pope francis’s indefatigable commitment to outreach, the fact that today he's in vanimo in papua new gui...
John L Allen

Take the risk of following Christ; do not fear ‘the night of failure’, Pope declares on last day in Indonesia

jakarta – pope francis celebrated mass for the indonesia's minority catholic population on his final day in the country, telling them not to...
Elise Ann Allen

An Apostolic people undaunted to defy crowds and the modern world: that’s what a Latin Mass pilgrimage is all about

the global latin mass movement, as the herald has covered in plenty of articles, is one of the most vital, quickly growing and dynamic pheno...
Tom Colsy

Blessed Carlo Acutis comes home for special Eucharistic Festival at Westminster Cathedral

westminster cathedral is hosting a eucharistic festival on saturday 14 september. the seat of the catholic faith in london, and the mother c...
The Catholic Herald

Pope Francis has landed: longest tour of his papacy begins in Indonesia

jakarta – pope francis has arrived in jakarta at the start of the longest trip of his papacy and a tour that aims to showcase not only his a...
Elise Ann Allen

Why all the fuss about Latin? Because it is fruitful not just for Catholics but for civilisation too

i’m filled with a newfound appreciation for language. one in particular. it follows a trip to hampshire on the south coast. but, no, i am no...
Tom Colsy

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