Catholic Church

What exactly is wrong with the commercialisation of Christmas?

The more presents people buy, the faster the economy will recover: so let it rip

Debate: Should children be told that Father Christmas isn't real?

Or does that lessen the wonder and magic of Christmas?

The Catholic Herald

Morning Catholic must-reads: 16/12/10

A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church

Nuns leave Walsingham priory to join ordinariate

Three Anglican nuns at Walsingham have left their community after expressing interest in joining a personal ordinariate

Today's Catholic must-reads: 15/12/10

A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church

Fr Swales celebrates High Mass in Newcastle

A High Mass in the Extraordinary Form is celebrated at Newcastle Upon Tyne's Catholic cathedral for only the second time since the Vatican II liturgical reforms

Concrete walls put up around Iraqi churches to prevent Christmas attacks

Government is scrambling to build 10ft-high barriers to stop a repeat of the Baghdad massacre in October

Hanwell man visits Hiroshima

Former Grand Knight of Knights of St Columba travels to Japan, laying a banner at the Hiroshima peace shrine

Morning Catholic must-reads: 14/12/10

A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church

Dutch Church promises action on clerical abuse

Spokesman says 'apologies are not enough' after commission receives nearly 2,000 claims of clerical sexual abuse since 1945

Jonathan Luxmoore