Catholic Church

A new persecution has begun - and with it, a subtle temptation

The danger to Western Christians doesn't come from sword-and-sandals tyrants, but from an enforced code of etiquette
Matthew Schmitz

When anti-Catholicism inspired riots

historians, including some of the good ones, have often proffered sweeping generalisations about american anti-catholicism. you’ll read abou...
Jonathan Wright

Did the creators of the Novus Ordo go too far?

to my delight and edification, i discovered that in the extraordinary form the mass of candlemas uses the preface of the nativity. a contemp...
Fr Dominic Allain

Why Anglo-Catholicism appeals to millennials

"twentysomethings are flocking to anglo-catholic services" shouted a headline in the times above an article featuring my church, st bartholo...
Marcus Walker

Ken Russell's 'The Devils' is badly misunderstood

bill donohue, president of the catholic league, recently condemned the new york times for using a picture of “a nun in habit standing behind...
Deal Hudson

Noble and moving: Richard Gowers' recording of La Nativité du Seigneur is a revelation

olivier messiaen (1908-92) still divides opinion. for some listeners, even well-attuned ones, his work remains unreachable. noisy, too many ...
Francis O’Gorman

Duterte is exploiting the bishops' relative weakness

last weekend the philippines was engulfed by rumours that the country’s mercurial president, rodrigo duterte, had died. the 73-year-old had ...
The Catholic Herald

England gets just the right amount of snow

driving around oxfordshire churches at the weekend, i sympathised with prince philip, and his dangerous driving, for the first time. in the ...
Harry Mount

Courage and diplomacy in the UAE

it’s only because conditions elsewhere in the muslim world are so much worse that the united arab emirates appears to be a land of “toleranc...
Fr Raymond de Souza

'So many people are not listening': an interview with Cardinal Brenes

in granada, a city in western nicaragua, vast colonial houses with peeling pastel façades stand in the searing sun. horses and carts bounce ...
Rachel Collingwood