Catholic Church

as the christmas octave continues, simon may takes an affectionate ecumenical look at plum wodehouse's treatment of the numerous anglican cl...

Simon May

vatican city : december 29, 2022 new details about pope emeritus benedict xvi’s condition have emerged following pope francis’s request yest...

Diana Montagna

ben stephens reflects on the life, death, and afterlife of thomas becket, who rose to be henry ii’s lord chancellor and archbishop of canter...

Ben Stephens

on the feast of st john the evangelist, the great apostle of the incarnation, an extract from the third chapter of st athanasius’s great tre...

St Athanasius of Alexandria

priest-holes – those small spaces in old english houses which sheltered mission priests in the dangerous days of the elizabethan persecution...

The Catholic Herald

veteran theologian and herald contributor john barton unpicks the message of the paradox that is st stephen's day: when the liturgical theme...

Dr John Barton

our correspondent may baldwin's account of christmas in the holy land - then a british protectorate under the terms of the league of nations...

May Baldwin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6e105a58p8 this is the moment when three uniformed police officers arrest a catholic woman for standing sil...

Simon Caldwell

you might think that christmas could be nothing but christian, but that would be to underestimate not only the dulling numbing of secular ho...

Gavin Ashenden

an alleged victim of father marko rupnik has spoken out about how she was abused by the priest over thirty years ago. in an interview with t...

Olenka Hamilton