Catholic Church

Lent is drill practice for our spiritual battle

each day during lent has, traditionally, assigned a church in rome called a “station”. in ancient times the people and clergy would process ...

Fr John Zuhlsdorf

When artists led the Church out of crisis

how catholic art saved the faith by elizabeth lev sophia institute press, 320pp, £15/$19 at the end of last year i visited the mantegna and ...

Francis Phillips

Diderot's self-centred rebellion

diderot and the art of free thinking by andrew curran, other press, 320pp, £22/$29 the late, great, arch-reactionary fr jean-marie charles-r...

Sonatas to help you pray the rosary

catholics who love the rosary may be unaware of an extraordinary aid to their prayer: the rosary sonatas, by the bohemian composer and violi...

Discovering the hidden Catholic messages in Tudor sacred music

one of the curious features of the first edition of the book of common prayer is its approach to the event of the reformation. of course the...

Francis O’Gorman

Letters & emails

why i will not leave the church sir – i was received into the church, as a convert, in 1980, was ordained deacon in southwark archdiocese in...

The Catholic Herald

Vatican financial reform is in tatters

there is a classic episode of yes minister in which jim hacker is exasperated that a newly built hospital is fully staffed with some 500 adm...

Fr Raymond de Souza

Can you name all 23 Eastern Catholic Churches?

albanian greek catholic church not to be confused with the italo-albanian catholic church, the 4,000 or so members of this byzantine rite co...

The Catholic Herald

The beautiful witness of the Eastern Catholic Churches

the coal country of north-eastern pennsylvania is full of depressed small towns which have been losing population for decades. today, if the...

In Australia, Pell's most outspoken defenders are outside the hierarchy

when the mccarrick scandal first broke in america, catholics began to leave the church in droves. but when the verdict against cardinal geor...