Catholic Church

The clear Catholic overtones in Bob Dylan's most recent work suggest he may have joined the Church

karl gustel warnberg travels to bournemouth to watch bob dylan live in concert ever since his debut as a young musician, bob dylan has been ...

Karl Gustel Warnberg

Cardinal Sarah gives our youth hope 'not by being nice, but by being faithful'

when i was 11 i started at a large co-ed secondary school in what lewis hamilton would later call the “slums” and spent the first few days t...

Katherine Bennett

Curtailing free speech is a civil rights issue

a serious and important measure was passed by the commons amid the psychodrama of liz truss’s unravelling premiership. it was an amendment t...

The Catholic Herald

'Synod', 'synod' and 'synodality': why we should be wary of poorly defined words

what do we mean by "synodal" or "synodality"? this is an important question as the church moves towards the conclusion of the synod on synod...

Dubhaltach O Reachtnin

Fighting for the papacy

victorian crusaders: british and irish volunteers in the papal army, 1860-1870 by nicholas schofield helion & co, 223 pages, £29.95 if o...

Serenhedd James

Catholics loan St Chad's relic to Anglicans

(photograph of st chad's relic courtesy of the archdiocese of birmingham) the catholic church has presented anglican lichfield cathedral wit...

The Synodal Way: 'Consulting with the people of God is different from coming under pressure from activists'

we must not put all our faith in structures, urges michael nazir-ali it is christ who makes the church, christ who renews the church, and ch...

Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali

Fr Sean Sheehy's homily was compassionate, not controversial

when father sean sheehy gave a homily against sin and explained the importance of forgiveness, all hell broke loose. that’s if you actually ...

Tributes paid to former Archbishop of Glasgow Mario Conti, dead at 88

(photograph by marcin mazur) catholics in scotland are mourning the death of emeritus archbishop mario conti of glasgow who has died after a...

The Synodal Way offers nothing more than 'quasi-Marxist content in a spiritual comfort blanket'

ex-anglicans have seen these tricks played on the church before, writes gavin ashenden in a recent article in another catholic publication, ...