Catholic Church

Bicentenary of first sermon by one of the greatest preachers in modern times: St John Henry Newman

two hundred years ago, on wednesday 23 june 1824, john henry newman preached his first sermon. not in oxford but seventeen miles north in th...

Churches and synagogues targeted in terrorist attack in southern Russia

two orthodox churches and two synagogues were targeted in what appears to have been a coordinated terrorist attack in southern russia timed ...

The Catholic Herald

On the Record: recommended listening for Corpus Christi and Ss Peter & Paul

proclaimed before the gospel on the feast of corpus christi, lauda sion is one of the four medieval sequences that remain in annual use. the...

Alex Hodgkinson

Pope pays respects to his late confessor and praises Franciscan order

at the weekend the pope made an unexpected trip across rome to pay his respects to a franciscan priest who died last week and had been the p...

‘Little Englishmen’ in Portugal: a new book about the English College at Lisbon

the english college at lisbon 1622-1972 , by simon johnson gracewing, £25, 272 pages the relationship between britain and portugal is often ...

Deacon Stephen Morgan

Across the Thames: a new book about Southwark but not much about its Catholics

liberty over london bridge: a history of the people of southwark by margaret willes yale university press, £20, 304 pages the dead are inter...

The new Britain: UK prepares for a landmark election

the outcome of the uk’s coming general election seems not to be in doubt; the only question is the size of the labour majority. rishi sunak’...

The Catholic Herald

Where to eat after Mass: Igreja da Madalena, Lisbon, and Cervejaría Ramiro

this beautiful church in downtown lisbon, dedicated to st mary magdalene, has many attributes – among which is that it holds masses in engli...

Vatican accuses former US nuncio Archbishop Viganò of schism

rome – a vatican decree leaked to the italian press states that italian archbishop carlo maria viganò, a former nuncio to the united states ...

The decline and fall of marriage - the last days

somewhere in my distant memory i recall how about 20 years ago an agitated young man in the audience of tv politics show asked oona king, th...