Catholic Church

Ninety-six years after Divini illius magistri, Pius XI’s bracing account of Catholic education remains strikingly timely

Brian Martin Lapsa

A third of recent ordinations to the Catholic priesthood have been made up by former Anglican clergy. Fr Michael Nazir-Ali explains why 

Fr Michael Nazir-Ali

Peter K. Andersson’s Fool attempts the impossible: a biography of Henry VIII’s court fool, whose real life barely survives beneath centuries of anecdote

Richard Rex

The Church’s recent gains among young adults will endure only if they are met with formation, obedience, and the long discipline of faith

James Bradbury

Young men are returning to the Church not because it has become easier, but because it has begun once again to ask something of them

R. Jared Staudt

Despite the deliberate, depressing depersonalisation of appearances that so many teenagers are embracing today, it doesn’t appear to be an indication of an inner condition

Chris Yates

A fair number of Catholic churches have been dedicated to St Thomas of Canterbury since the Second Catholic Relief Act which allowed Catholic churches to be detached buildings

Michael Hodges

Two Oxford women saw the ghost of Marie Antoinette... or did they?

Lucy Lethbridge

Following an investigation by the Catholic Herald, the diocese will remove support from CCS adoption

Niwa Limbu

This reflection considers Saint Joseph as a man who “became prayer,” whose listening obedience unites contemplation and action in the face of hatred and darkness

Br. Damiano Pio CFR