Catholic Church

Photos of Palestine tell a troubled tale

the bride: an illustrated history of palestine 1850-1948 by roger hardy anthony eyre, £15, 320 pages this account of a momentous century in ...

Jack Kerouac at 100

the american writer jack kerouac, whose centenary fell this year, was adamant about the catholic inspiration of his work, which he repeatedl...

Ritual matters

ritual: how seemingly senseless acts make life worth living is the latest ethnographic offering of dimitris xygalatas, an anthropologist and...

The Church and Galileo

when it comes to pr disasters, the church’s handling of the galileo affair is right up there. to the modern mind, the galileo affair is the ...

Fr Robert Verrill OP

Partnering for Peace

it is common knowledge that our island’s deep-rooted relationship with catholicism spans hundreds of years, stretching all the way back to t...

Kemi Badenoch MP

Diary: A heartening weekend at the Colloquium of the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy

ecce quam bonum et quam jucundum, habitare fratres in unum – psalm 133 as i reflect on my experience of lockdown as a new priest appointed t...

Fr Liam Carpenter

Cutting liberalism down to size

liberalism and its discontents by francis fukuyama profile books £16.99, 192 pages the term “liberalism” is a monster that has grown large a...

Maintaining the Church’s identity is vital

cardinal francis arinze looks over his balcony on to st peter’s square, golden in the blazing sunshine. it’s so hot and humid, in fact, that...

Will it be a Hungarian Pope?

hungarian cardinal péter erdő – archbishop of esztergom-budapest – may be emerging as a front-runner to succeed pope francis. the canon law ...

Dis-united States: Supreme Court abortion ruling splits Catholics and country

the decision by the us supreme court to rule there is no constitutional right to abortion, turning the decision over to the country’s 50 sta...