Catholic Church

I'm thankful for the sacrament that Luther and Calvin rejected

my mother received the sacrament of the anointing of the sick last sunday. i was away when she was anointed but her carers were there and th...
Melanie McDonagh

Heretic of the week: Ralph Waldo Emerson

ralph waldo emerson (1803-1882) is considered to be one of the greatest writers the united states has ever produced. generations of schoolch...
Charles Coulombe

How to… get to know St Augustine

the thinking of st augustine of hippo, a doctor of the church, is so influential, says pope benedict xvi, that he continues to leave a “deep...
The Catholic Herald

The many blessings of a mini-pilgrimage

over the summer many catholics will have made their way to pilgrimage sites all over the world. pilgrimage is as important as ever, with the...
Fr Matthew Pittam

Committees won't solve the crisis of Eucharistic faith

recently the pew research center released a study with alarming implications. it showed that some 7 out of 10 american catholics who at...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf

A fascinating study of Spain that fails to do the Church justice

after the fall by tobias buck weidenfeld and nicolson, 320pp, £20/$24.50 last month, spanish political parties failed, yet again, to come to...
Filipe D'Avillez

The strange decline of Catholic hymns

when pope honorius crowned the fourth lateran council (1215) by proclaiming the new feast of corpus christi – a triduum of joy from the thur...
Anthony Esolen

Letters: The best argument for large families

the best argument for large families sir – it is always encouraging to see colin brazier waxing lyrical and logical in defence of larger fam...
The Catholic Herald

Fr Jubani survived jail and torture. But nothing prepared him for Hollywood

fr simon jubani (pronounced: “you-bonnie”) spent much of his adult life in solitary confinement in an albanian prison cell, where he was reg...
Tom Hoopes

First they came for Pell…

why do so many catholics refuse to believe that the australian cardinal george pell is guilty of child abuse? the cynical answer is “tribal ...
Tim Stanley