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Recent funerals of two Irish writers reflect country’s fraught relationship with Church
the funerals of two of ireland's most famous contemporary writers who died within a month of each other this summer reflect the complex rela...
DeclanMcSweeney
Unravelling the Three-Church Problem
in the realm of astrodynamics the so-called three-body problem is one of the oldest challenges in celestial mechanics. it focuses on trying ...
Thomas Edwards
Jubilee 2025 to showcase hope and forgiveness for world scarred by anger, says organising Vatican official
the vatican official charged with organising pope francis’s 2025 jubilee of hope has stressed that the event will focus on hope and forgiven...
Elise Allen
‘A light in Spain’: Vatican approves devotion to WWII apparition of Our Lady of Sorrows
the vatican has approved the devotion to the spanish marian shrine of our lady of sorrows of chandavila where the virgin mary reportedly app...
James Jeffrey
Camino conflagration blamed on badly behaved pilgrims
a pilgrim walking the camino de santiago was arrested on 20 august on suspicion of starting one of this year’s largest wildfires in spain. &...
The Catholic Herald
What has happened to British justice and will our Church speak out or continue its descent into two-tier Catholicism?
my family is peppered with lawyers. many of us read law, some going on to practice it, others not. those non-practitioners may have lost tou...
Gavin Ashenden
Four religious martyred in Democratic Republic of Congo beatified
three xaverian missionaries martyred alongside a local priest in the democratic republic of congo in 1964 were recently beatified during a m...
Ngala Chimton / Crux
Catholics back ‘Mandela Act’ in California to limit solitary confinement
new york – as time runs out for california governor gavin newsom to act on legislation that would limit the use of solitary confinement in t...
johnlavenburg
The Catholic religiosity of James Tissot’s visionary art attracted adoration and scorn
fully appreciating the catholic content in the art of the frenchman james tissot (1836 –1902) may be a matter of faith. his 365 illustration...
Benjamin Ivry
Summer reads recommended by the Catholic Herald (Part 1)
it’s that time of year again, hence we asked a number of the herald’s friends and contributors to share with readers those books, whether ol...
The Catholic Herald
Taking stock of the UK riots: Catholicism and the crisis of Anglo-Celtic identity
anti-immigrant riots in the united kingdom. election hysteria in the united states. both are symptoms of a crisis of anglo-celtic identity, ...
John Milbank
Saints upset people: the cause of World War II heroine Sybil Kathigasu
saints upset people. it is surely impossible to live a life of heroic virtue without igniting the wrath of the wicked. even the relatively g...
jamesroberts
Holy Land’s top Catholic turns to upcoming Feast of the Assumption after Israel’s latest military strike
the latin patriarch of jerusalem has issued an appeal for prayer during the upcoming feast of the assumption of mary in response to the late...
Elise Allen
Songs of Praise: when it comes to prayer, the Psalms provide something for everyone
the idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands. they have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see no...
Fra Max Rumney
The Pontifical Academy for Life and the wisdom of perspective on end-of-life care
demonstrators pray for terri schiavo outside a courthouse in march 2005 . ap rome – hard cases, as the famous legal maxim holds, make bad la...
John L Allen
Pope Francis calls Chinese "a great people" and engages with criticisms of his papacy
rome – in a new interview with the jesuit province of china, pope francis expressed his desire to visit the country and spoke of his admirat...
Elise Allen
Young Catholic 'Rocky' TikToker who took on renowned Protestant theologian – and won
in the movie classic rocky a humble, poor, local boxer is picked to fight world heavyweight champion apollo creed – and wins against all the...
Heather Tomlinson
Vatican approves devotion to 16th-century Vailankanni Marian shrine in India
the vatican continues to make progress in wading through its backlog of requests for rulings on alleged marian apparitions and other spiritu...
Elise Allen
Don’t despair at Last Supper parody: Paris still has a beating heart of faith
it’s hard to stand up in front of a sunday mass congregation and announce that in the coming week you’re going on pilgrimage to paris (and t...
Albert Robertson OP
EDITORIAL: It's a reckoning when there is only one seminarian for the whole of Dublin
the maxim that the sins of the fathers are visited on the sons is true in a particularly grim sense in ireland where, in the archdiocese of ...
The Catholic Herald
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