Catholic Church

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

police in birmingham have charged a catholic woman with four counts of violating an abortion clinic “buffer zone” after she admitted that sh...

Simon Caldwell

pope francis has ordered the return of three parthenon fragments which have been held in the papal collections of the vatican museums for ce...

Olenka Hamilton

the catholic bishops of scotland have aligned themselves with women’s groups and jk rowling in urging msps to throw out a bill to permit sex...

Simon Caldwell