Catholic Church

Two weeks after Covington, the post-mortem continues

there’s something ironic about journalists criticising children with an enormous megaphone and yet maintaining that they are on the side of ...

King Charles I, Founding Father

what was “washington’s birthday” is quickly approaching us: now often redubbed “presidents’ day”, the repackaging allows us to forget “linco...

Charles Coulombe

Dear Fr Rutler: I don't like giving the sign of peace. Is that wrong?

dear father rutler, i don’t like giving the sign of the peace at mass. it seems to me like a needless distraction. i can glad-hand mrs smith...

Fr George Rutler

In today's Church, ugliness is finally in decline

i was in the fitzwilliam museum, cambridge, last week, nosing around a sarcophagus, when a man with a beard asked if i was who he thought i ...

The young choir reimagining the Renaissance

mixed voice adult choirs have given us new perspectives on the trove of renaissance choral music over the past 30 years or so. the clerkes o...

Francis O’Gorman

A biography of Bugnini paints a startling picture

for christmas i was given a copy of the newly translated biography of annibale bugnini, architect of the novus ordo mass – and hero or émine...

Fr Dominic Allain

How to… Mark Candlemas

on february 2, even the most diehard acknowledge that it’s time to put away the crib, take down the mistletoe and leave the season of christ...

The Catholic Herald

Pope Francis has made dialogue with the Muslim world a top priority

at 8:45am last sunday, a bomb exploded during mass near the cathedral of our lady of mount carmel in the southern philippines. it shattered ...

The Catholic Herald

Week in review

the big story of the past seven days ✣ pope francis: i’ll think about exceptions on priestly celibacy what happened? pope francis said on mo...

World news

notre dame, indiana christopher columbus murals to be covered up notre dame university has decided to cover up its 19th-century murals depic...