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Morning Catholic must-reads: 03/05/19

an archbishop has said that “christians are being killed like chickens” in northwestern nigeria. sunday masses have been cancelled again in ...

Could Catholic adoption agencies be declared illegal?

yet another city’s catholic adoption agencies were forced to shut down last week, this time in pennsylvania, where a federal judge ruled tha...

Heretic of the Week: John Knox

john knox (c 1512-1572) was born sometime between 1505 and 1515 in haddington, scotland. he is thought to have studied at either the univers...

Charles Coulombe

Christians who reject the empty tomb are the real myth-makers

as the masses of easter octave come to an end, so do the daily gospel proclamations of jesus’s post-resurrection appearances. for some reaso...

Fr Dominic Allain

Beehives and the meaning of baptism

last week, i was inspired by both the exsultet, sung by the deacon during the vigil of easter with its imagery of bees, and the survival of ...

Fr John Zuhlsdorf

The honour of suffering humiliation

the third sunday of easter acts 5:27-32 & 40-41; rev 5:11-14; jn 21:1-19 (year c) christ is alive! he is our hope, and in a wonderful wa...

Bishop David McGough

The story of the 'greatest organisation in human history'

steve weidenkopf, who teaches church history at the christendom college graduate school of theology in virginia has written in timeless: a h...

Francis Phillips

Letters & Emails

after the revolution, the reckoning sir – the article by fr hugh somerville knapman (feature, april 5), on the desirability of revisiting th...

The Catholic Herald

From marriage to death, our rites are being reinvented

i am made aware that we are coming up to the wedding season by the visibility of the hen party. exactly when these parties – or pre-wedding ...

Life under ISIS: Raqqa's Christians tell their story

the churches of raqqa lie in ruins following the defeat of isis. but remarkably the city’s christian community has survived. before the syri...