Catholic Church

What's the point of Catholic high schools?

somewhere amid all the things that come with being a high school – the football games, the english classes, the hundreds of extracurricular ...

Britons may as well be living in the Soviet Union

a christian, felix ngole, has won a court action against sheffield university which threw him off his social worker course because he h...

Cardinal Sarah: A prophet of our times

the church’s calendar includes the feast days of several of the great figures of the old testament (though observing them is not obligatory)...

Fr Raymond de Souza

What China's Catholics really think of the Vatican deal

recently i strolled slowly up a hill with a local priest in a remote area of china. he remained close to me as we ascended steep slopes to a...

Anthony E Clark

Is France about to follow Belgium on euthanasia?

it’s escaped most of the world’s attention, but france has been fixated in recent months on the case of vincent lambert a 42-year-old brain-...

Rebellion or submission: Why are millennials flocking to convents?

the supercomputer that generates trend pieces about millennials has gone haywire. having been fed a steady diet of breezy reportage about th...

Is Viganò overstating his case?

last summer’s celebrity ecclesiastical whistleblower, archbishop carlo maria viganò, is back in the news. on july 3, lifesite published...

Christopher R. Altieri

World news: from Londrina to London

louisville, kentucky archbishop diagnosed with cancer archbishop joseph kurtz of louisville, the former president of the us bishops’ confere...

The week in quotations

"if the world continues to do nothing, the result will be the elimination of the christian presence" bishop laurent birfuoré dabiré of ...

Meanwhile: Why Ann Widdecombe wasn't posted to Rome

in 2010, the former tory minister (and now catholic herald columnist) ann widdecombe was offered a new job: david cameron asked he...