Catholic Church

How did the 'religion of humanity' replace Christianity?

the idol of our age by daniel j mahoney encounter books, 184pp, £17.99/$15.90 one of the most famous passages in modern literature is fyodor...

Alexandra Hudson

George Lloyd: The broken man who created healing music

the british composer george lloyd, who died more than 20 years ago, remains a neglected figure. he had the misfortune to live through the po...

Letters & emails

the wrong way to seek priestly vocations sir – the article by michael warren davis (us news analysis, june 28) concerning ordinations to the...

The Catholic Herald

Parishes need more than one priest

as i have mentioned before, when i visit paris i stay with cousins in the 15th arrondissement, and on sundays i attend mass at their local p...

How Nagasaki's Catholics survived persecution and the bomb

ashort walk from the entrance of urakami cathedral in nagasaki there is a boulder that’s big enough to seat one person. to anyone walking by...

Does liberalism have to be this stupid?

liberalism is in trouble and it’s a crisis of its contradictions. too much freedom can make you unfree. that was what vladimir putin implied...

The Catholic school that would make Socrates proud

thank god for homeschoolers. as america’s public school system continues to collapse, and even parochial schools grow more expensive as they...

Michael Warren Davis

Archbishop Fisher: what paralysis taught me about euthanasia

before you say “he would say that, he’s a bishop,” please hear me out. when it comes to calls for euthanasia, i get it, i really do. a few y...

Archbishop Anthony Fisher

What Putin wants from the Pope

russian president vladimir putin must have been nervous. pope francis’s foreign policy has been agreeable to moscow. but ominous clouds were...

Fr Raymond de Souza

The booming monasteries that are running out of cells

among the most startling aspects of the post-vatican ii era of the catholic church has been the dramatic decline of vocations to the religio...