Catholic Church

Why priests need our prayers now more than ever

an article in catholic world report for monday, titled “a priest who offered his life in reparation for the sins of priests” by dr patrick k...
Francis Phillips

Farewell to 'church shopping'

do you go “shopping” for a church where you find the style of worship suits you, or because you find the priest congenial and the congregati...
Andrew M Brown

Heretic of the week: Joseph Smith

joseph smith (1807-1844) was born in sharon, vermont; by the time he was 12, his family had joined the migration of new englanders into upst...
Charles Coulombe

Prize crossword 0581

cryptic across 7 cult member gets two boys to join up (8) 8 writing’s on the wall for a captain in retreat (4) 9 little time to get to grips...
Alun Evans

How to… Read Scripture

in dei verbum, the council fathers pointed out that there are many ways to encounter scripture, including in the liturgy. as for reading, th...
The Catholic Herald

The test of the summit: will whistleblowers be protected?

as the old adage goes, you don’t fatten a pig by weighing it. nor do you solve an abuse crisis simply by having summits to discuss it. it is...
Fr Dominic Allain

Churchill, the Mosleys and the Tridentine Rite

no longer with us by naim attallah, quartet, 823pp, £30/$33 it was diana mosley, as enchanting in her person as her politics were bewilderin...
David Platzer

Letters & emails

newman’s message to a church in crisis sir – the news that blessed john henry newman is to be canonised is wonderful. what that holy man wou...
The Catholic Herald

Shamima Begum's son didn't choose ISIS

the woman selling daily papers at the supermarket pointed to a picture of shamima begum, the “jihadi bride” who now wants to return to brita...
Mary Kenny

Two very different ways of fighting communism

last week, the cause of cardinal józsef mindszenty of hungary (1892-1975) took a major step forward: pope francis declared mindszenty venera...
Marc Roscoe Loustau