Catholic Church

when christians were jews by paula fredriksen yale, 250pp, £19.99/$27.50 how did a group of 1st-century jews, the followers of a recently cr...

Stav Sherez

the 21: a journey into the land of coptic martyrs by martin mosebach (translated by alta l. price) plough, 272pp, £19/$26 this book introduc...

Jack Carrigan

completing the circle of the reformation sir – the most recurrent themes in your columns are those questions regarding married priests, celi...

The Catholic Herald

the #metoo movement arrived in the vatican with lucetta scaraffia, the founding editor of the monthly magazine donne chiesa mondo (women chu...

Desmond O'Grady

should andrew cuomo, the governor of new york, be excommunicated from the catholic church? let me see. a politician who describes himself as...

Tim Stanley

dear father rutler, i don’t want a single penny of my earnings to go to the bishops until they’ve cleaned up their act, but i’ve heard that ...

Fr George Rutler

these days, schools and universities enjoy sending out yearly bulletins to their alumni: it’s partly an exercise in reminding former student...

Jonathan Wright

but for his catholic faith, lord nicholas windsor is every inch what you might expect to find in a member of the royal family. he is bright ...

Simon Caldwell

one of the nice things about pope francis is that he’s not at his best with vips; in their company, he takes on a lugubrious look. with ordi...

Melanie McDonagh

it is 25 years since one of the worst atrocities in modern history: the rwandan genocide, in which 800,000 people, mostly from the tutsi min...

Francis Njuguna