Catholic Church

Before God, we are hope-filled beggars

the collect for the 18th ordinary sunday was not in any previous edition of the missale romanum. it is a grammatically simplified versi...

Fr John Zuhlsdorf

The royal bully who retired to a monastery

emperor: a new life of charles v by geoffrey parker yale, 760pp, £25/$35 early 16th-century demographics can lead one to wonder how protesta...

Did World War II undermine Catholicism?

mass exodus by stephen bullivant oup, 302pp, £25/$32.95 why catholics leave, what they miss, and how they might return by stephen bullivant ...

Mahler's anguished but enduring faith

in 1860, gustav mahler was born into a german-speaking jewish family in the bohemian village of kaliště, then part of the austrian empire. w...

Letters & emails

catholics need a dash of confidence sir – hearing boris johnson expounding in the house of commons his belief in the greatness of the u...

The Catholic Herald

Men's brains aren't wired to notice housework

it’s considered now to be a major cause of inequality between men and women, and a prime factor in the “gender imbalance” of society. that i...

Neo-Victorians like Rees-Mogg know what Britain is lacking

i’m very much enjoying our neo-victorian government. i’ve been pushing boris for pm for over a year: i said on bbc question time that theres...

The JPII Institute purge is a sign of weakness, not strength

it’s the beginning of the end for amoris laetitia, the document of pope francis on the family which attempted to change the church...

Fr Raymond de Souza

What every Catholic should know about the Eucharist

what does the catechism of the catholic church teach? it teaches that it is by the conversion of the bread and wine into christ’s body and b...

Fr Dwight Longenecker

Half of US Catholics think the Eucharist is only symbolic. How did this happen?

a news item last week reminded me of a story about the writer flannery o’connor. in one of her letters collected in the habit of being she d...

Fr Dwight Longenecker