Catholic Church

The week ahead: St Monica, passion play, Divine Mercy

august 27 is the feast of st monica, the mother of st augustine, whose prayers did so much to bring about his conversion. the diocese of wil...
Staff writers

Overlooked: Renewed pressure on Chinese priests

what happened? chinese clergy are coming under renewed pressure, despite the vatican’s attempts to find a middle ground, according to report...
Staff writers

Divine understanding

we often hear biblical scholars speak of god’s self-emptying in the incarnation, of christ’s burying himself into anonymity, and of god’s pa...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser

The Catholic naval hero descended from St Thomas More

today he is little remembered. but admiral sir henry harwood made a crucial early contribution during the second world war: he injected a vi...
David Twiston Davies

Prize crossword 0605

cryptic across 7 house within diocese is retro brown (6) 8 nice fathers sacked in gorbachev’s plan for russian transport (6) 9 joint effort ...
Alun Evans

How to… Understand the Assumption

the assumption of the blessed virgin mary has always been a teaching within the tradition of the catholic church and the orthodox church, wh...
The Catholic Herald

What I learned from celebrating Mass in the Ordinariate Use

i am a priest of the personal ordinariate of our lady of walsingham, having been part of the first group of former anglican clergy to be ord...
Fr Matthew Pittam

Olivier Roy: an impartial observer of Europe's crises

is europe christian? by olivier roy hurst, 112pp, £14.99/$19.99 everything seems to be about identity these days: politics, culture – even r...
Samuel Gregg

Letters: Being 'born again' cannot just be an emotional experience

to be born again, we need sacraments sir – with the greatest respect, i have to differ quite sharply from fr rolheiser’s article on the mean...
The Catholic Herald

What will you reap? An Anglo-Saxon tradition to help us take stock

august 1, in the traditional calendar of the roman rite the feast of st peter in chains, is also in the english agricultural calendar lammas...
Charles Coulombe