Catholic Church

there is really only one way to climb the scala santa – or holy stairs – in rome, and that is on your knees. tradition holds that the white ...

The Catholic Herald

on this complicated sunday people in many churches will observe in the ordinary form what we might call, for its absurdity, ascension thursd...

Fr John Zuhlsdorf

the stoning of stephen, the church’s first martyr, reminds us that the cross is not simply the precursor of the resurrection. the cross is, ...

Bishop David McGough

letter to a suffering church by bishop robert barron word on fire catholic ministries, 57pp, 99p/$1.25 (kindle) a priest for 33 years and a ...

Fr Thomas Berg

a history of the bible by john barton, allen lane 640pp, £25/$35 when i was a novice, one of my fellow novices encouraged me to read a book ...

Richard Ounsworth OP

do younger catholics rarely sin? sir – when i was about seven, i learned from my penny catechism that “purgatory is a place where souls suff...

The Catholic Herald

i was once sent on a television coaching course in which a tutor in communications endeavoured to teach a group of us how to get our point a...

Mary Kenny

if catholics were barred from public office, our politics might be greatly improved. such a harsh assessment would be unthinkable if catholi...

Matthew Schmitz

one hundred and fifty years ago a legal case involving three nuns was front-page news in britain and ireland. the plaintiff was susanna mary...

Neil Addison

forty years ago the communists got what they wanted, and lived to rue the day. when archbishop karol wojtyła of kraków was elected pope john...

Fr Raymond de Souza