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Letters & emails

send bishop barron to washington sir – “few would deny that 2018 was an annus horribilis for the catholic church in the united states.” so w...
The Catholic Herald

Why I had to cross the Tiber

on the morning of january 1, 2019, my family and i began a new life in the catholic church. at mass for the solemnity of mary, mother of god...
Andrew Petiprin

Pope Francis has followed a similar path to Pius IX

when none of my historian friends are looking, i like to draw parallels between pope francis and blessed pope pius ix. of course the pairing...
Matthew Schmitz

Anthony Burgess's Earthly Powers: an attempted masterpiece that didn't quite work

anthony burgess’s earthly powers was a great baggy monster of a novel which should perhaps have won the booker prize in 1980, but was beaten...
Allan Massie

Why the Vatican's abuse summit is doomed

a month away from the vatican’s sexual abuse summit and the smell of failure is in the air, emanating not from the holy father’s critics but...
Fr Raymond de Souza

St Bernadette, a medallion and the miraculous saving of a soul

this is a true story, the details set out as accurately as knowledge and memory permit peter was born in thurso, the most northerly town on ...
Allan Scott

In the countryside, England's Catholic heritage remains hidden in plain sight

the winter solstice is well passed, and as the days lengthen so do my forays out into the valley below our farmhouse. our valley hasn’t chan...
Charlie Hart

This year’s March for Life was a success, not that you'd know that from the media

the 46th march for life (m4l) brought an estimated 200,000 to 300,000 marchers to washington to demonstrate for the legal prohibition of abo...
Jordan Bloom

Finding Cardinal Wuerl's successor is an urgent priority

on january 14, the catholic news agency published a puzzling headline: “wuerl denies prior denials denied knowledge of mccarrick seminarian ...
Mark Benbow

The results of a major new survey will both inspire and unnerve Catholics

last week, the knights of columbus and the marist institute for public opinion jointly published two polls that should give catholics a bit ...
Michael Warren Davis