Catholic Church

Fall of a celebrity priest

on january 7, the washington post reported that in 2005 opus dei paid the astonishing sum of $977,000 to a woman who accused fr john mcclosk...
Mark Benbow

Catholics belong at Burns Night

last january 25 and next january 25, i took and shall take part in a ritual at once solemn and amusing, timeless and spontaneous – not part ...
Charles Coulombe

Long Island’s little secrets

as you approach the final stretch of long island, new york, the land mass splits into twin forks, as equally beautiful as they are distinct ...
Robert Wargas

Hopkins can console believers who struggle with depression

in the year 1866, gerard manley hopkins feels like an exile. he’s publicly announced his intention to convert to the catholic faith from his...
Fr Michael Rennier

Prize crossword 0576

cryptic across 7 girl getting support at new church is a token of peace (5,6) 8 unexpected drink after a mother gets bargains here? (5,3) 9 ...
Alun Evans

My first time celebrating a baptism in the Extraordinary Form

i have celebrated a baptism in the extraordinary form for the first time. i mention this not as the opening salvo in some campaign, rather t...
Fr Dominic Allain

Fellini's films mingle piety with paganism

fellini’s eternal rome by alessandro carrera bloomsbury, 186pp, £65/$80 no film conjured so memorably the flashbulb glitz and moral darkness...
Ian Thomson

A unique yet universal journey into the Church

from fire, by water by sohrab ahmari ignatius, 240pp, £18/$22 my first thought when reading sohrab ahmari’s from fire by water: my journey t...
Tim Stanley

Letters & emails

it’s not ‘loopy’ to explore homeopathy sir – in his article about prince charles’s role in relation to a disestablished church of england (f...
The Catholic Herald

The bishops making a dramatic appeal to the UN

two weeks after long-delayed elections were finally held in the democratic republic of the congo (drc) – the country with the largest cathol...
Jonathan Luxmoore