Catholic Church

The big story: Pope Francis: 'I'm not afraid of schism'

what happened? pope francis has raised the prospect of schism, telling reporters that it is a constant possibility in the church. answering ...
Staff writers

A schism in the US? What Pope Francis really thinks

it all began with a book. on the papal plane to africa, the french journalist nicolas senèze gave the holy father a copy of his latest work....
The Catholic Herald

Why thousands of children have never heard of the Good Samaritan

once a year, in january, i sit around a table with an eclectic group that includes chris bryant, the labour mp, anna sapir abulafia, profess...
Cristina Odone

Our cultural roots are in Latin and Greek

teenagers are studying latin in large numbers. some 7,000 pupils took the gcse this year, 150 more than in 2018, according to the exam board...
Alexander Jolliffe

What role should the clergy play in a Catholic education?

in david lodge’s 2001 novel thinks, the protagonist helen reed muses on her catholic schooling: “i’m deeply grateful that i had a catholic e...
The Catholic Herald

Leading Catholic school headmaster: 'Boys will turn off if you patronise them'

every year the london oratory school, a boys’ academy which takes girls at sixth form, has 1,000 applicants from across london for the 160 p...
The Catholic Herald

Will Catholic schools resist state pressure on sex education?

in 2007, the government shut down catholic adoption agencies. they didn’t put it like that, of course: they just insisted that, as a result ...
Dan Hitchens

Editor's letter

while researching our schools supplement i spoke to a gentleman who, despite not being a catholic himself, had chosen to send his children t...
The Catholic Herald

The scent of humility

according to the 7th-century bishop and theologian isaac the syrian, a person who is genuinely humble gives off a certain scent that other p...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser

The icon bringing hope to the persecuted

many of us have become conditioned because of our history to think of christianity as essentially european. “europe is the faith and the fai...
Fr Benedict Kiely