Catholic Church

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...

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 ...

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

Latin is the true language of love

since next week we mark the feast of st valentine – a priest and physician in rome whose cult came to be associated with love because of the...

Letters & emails

obesity, genes and st thomas aquinas sir – mary kenny (comment, february 1) says that a new report sheds light on the long-running deba...

The Catholic Herald

Spiritual books: how to sanctify your daily life

first published in 1946, when the future cardinal stefan wyszyński was bishop of lublin, sanctify your daily life (ewtn/gracewing, 192pp, £1...

Francis Phillips

Evangelisation is a tightrope - but Our Lady can help us find our balance

mary, star of evangelization: tilling the soil and sowing the seed by jacob phillips paulist press, 192pp, £24.99/$24.95 pity the catholic e...