Catholic Church

Salvation is a gift, not an achievement

sixth sunday of easter acts 15:1-2 & 22-29; rev 21:10-14 & 22-23; jn 14:23-29 (year c) "some men came from judaea and taught the bro...
Bishop David McGough

Why was Britain's elite willing to swallow Hitler's lies?

appeasing hitler by tim bouverie bodley head, 512pp, £20/$25 "not another book on hitler," you protest. “can there be anything more to say?”...
Thelma Lovell

An island of saints and scholars seized by technocrats and wonks

my father left me ireland by michael brendan dougherty sentinel, 240pp, £20/$24 "you leave. i cry.” with these four words, michael brendan d...
Michael Duggan

How Bach turned the Gospel into sound

faith and the arts are natural partners. both aspire to the fusion of order with a creative leap of the imagination, connecting the ideal wi...
Thelma Lovell

Letters & emails

why women cannot be ordained sir – i wonder why matthew schmitz (comment, may 17) did not give your readers the reason why pope st john paul...
The Catholic Herald

Forget Mrs May's politics: her situation surely commands compassion

if the political soothsayers are correct, theresa may is in the dying days of her stewardship of 10 downing street. whether or not you agree...
Mary Kenny

We've come a long way since Cranmer called the pope the antichrist

in 1971, hunter s thompson looked back on his time in san francisco in the mid-1960s in one wistful passage from his most famous specimen of...
Andrew Petiprin

Father Hesburgh's flawed legacy

a picture is worth a lifetime of words. so it is with the famous photograph from 1964 taken at a civil rights rally at soldier field in chic...
Fr Raymond de Souza

What The Atlantic doesn't understand about the priesthood

it should not surprise anyone to discover wickedness among the ranks of the catholic priesthood. everyone with a modicum of self-awareness a...
JD Flynn

A 'mortal threat' to religious freedom in California

as it stands, all clergymen in california are “mandated reporters”, meaning the state requires them to report suspected instances of the sex...
Michael Warren Davis