Catholic Church

the 26th sunday of the year nm 11:25-29; jas 5:1-6; mk 9:38-43, 45 & 47-48 (year b) ‘but who can detect all his errors? from hidden...

Bishop David McGough

the rigging of a vatican synod? by edward pentin, ignatius pentin, £11.86   the story of last october’s synod is well known, but edward...

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

theatre kidman works her chemistry on dna nicole kidman, who was last seen on the london stage 17 years ago in david hare’s adaptation of ar...

Robert Tanitch

it is a source of great fascination to me that almost every value that was commonly upheld in my youth has been overturned – and many values...

Mary Kenny

lutyens’s pick ’n’ mix church architecture in the early 20th century threw away the rulebook and drew from a mishmash of sources st jude’s, ...

Harry Mount

vatican reporters need a rat-like cunning if you want to join the ‘vat pack’ you must endure long periods of news starvation but be ready to...

Catholic Herald View

the instrumentum laboris, or working paper, for next month’s synod has all the hallmarks of the product of a committee. it is also tiresomel...

Catholic Herald View

why rome is looking east by strengthening the synod of bishops pope francis hopes to boost the chances of unity between catholics and orthod...

Fr Mark Drew

there is nothing to fear here for the fourth time since 2008 i will spend a good part of october in an “upper room” at the vatican, seated a...

Catholic Herald View

don’t try to pigeonhole the synod fathers you won’t be able to understand what happens at next month’s gathering if you insist on labelling ...

Wilfrid Napier