Catholic Church

this is not just a painting by bernard lahire, translated by helen morrison, polity, 450pp, £30/$45 helen morrison has undoubtedly done engl...

Matt Thorne

francis was quite clear on 'diversity' sir – the comments made by pope francis in his dubai statement about god willing a diversity of relig...

The Catholic Herald

less than a year ago i stood in the ruined old city of mosul, standing next to the mosque where the caliphate had been proclaimed by isis le...

Fr Benedict Kiely

orwell thought that the novel was a protestant art form. this may seem silly, especially when you consider the number of catholic novelists,...

Allan Massie

a titan of the european church since the late 1970s, godfried danneels died as a symbol of an exhausted liberal catholicism resuscitated by ...

Fr Raymond de Souza

over the years, i have worked in several dioceses and contexts. i’ve often heard brother priests say things like: “we don’t know where we’re...

Bishop Philip Egan

Mass attendance is up 12 per cent a year. Income has more than doubled. Here's what I've learned in the process

Fr Joseph Illo

among the bank of menacing clouds hanging over us all at the moment, the rise of anti-semitism is one of the most disturbing. it is only 75 ...

Peter Stanford

officials in gdańsk have ordered the removal of a monument to a catholic priest linked to the solidarity movement amid accusations that he w...

Jonathan Luxmoore

if an american diocese granted permission for the society of st pius x (sspx) to celebrate nuptial masses within their territory, you might ...

Michael Warren Davis