Catholic Church

GK Chesterton's 'enjoyable nightmare' before Christmas

christmas is for many of us a nightmare: relatives, trying not to buy them the same present again, sticking to a budget, and only going beyo...
Daniel Frampton

Sanctifying the world

you might think that it’s odd for george weigel, usually billed as a conservative, to be supporting the second vatican council. because vati...
Gertrude Clarke

Soiled hearts and bloodied fingers

eight years ago, i wrote an article for the catholic herald in which i warned that an agreement between the vatican and the chinese communis...
B Rogers

Discerning the work of the Spirit

the new “listening to everyone and excluding nothing” process so far undertaken in the first two phases of the synod on synodality has been ...
Diana Montagna

The Immaculate Conception

among non-catholic christians, a common misunderstanding about the doctrine of the immaculate conception is that it is the doctrine that mar...
Fr Robert Verrill OP

Why I’m now convinced Shakespeare was a Catholic

interviewing the writer joseph pearce for one of the herald’s recent merely catholic podcasts has opened up a whole new world for me. i foun...
Gavin Ashenden

Antonia Nonagenaria

it was over lunch at le poule au pot towards the end of july that i suggested that lady antonia fraser might give the catholic herald an int...
Serenhedd James

Let's make the most of advent to appreciate Christmas

many of our readers will receive this christmas edition of the catholic herald in advent – the time of arriving, the beginning of the church...
The Catholic Herald

Raise a glass to GK Chesterton

this year marks the centenary of gk chesterton’s reception into the catholic church. it had been anticipated by some of his most catholic wr...
The Catholic Herald

Cardinal Sarah issues warning on religious freedom

“democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others,” insisted winston churchill. less famously, he went on to say that th...
Gavin Ashenden