Catholic Church

Letters & emails

why st john vianney’s heart matters sir – i can imagine an atheist reader scoffing if he stumbled on michael warren davis’s account of the t...

The Catholic Herald

The leader who signed his own death warrant

in the late autumn of 1921, michael collins, arthur griffith and their team of four others travelled to london to engage in talks with the b...

Many comedians have a Catholic background - and no wonder

back when the united states was primarily dominated – both in numbers and in culture – by the wasps, a strange paradox emerged which has rem...

Charles Coulombe

Why they shouted ‘Heil Hitler’

in a village in poland in 1942 you, as a member of a company of german soldiers, are raising your rifle at a crowd of women, children and th...

Quentin de la Bedoyere

Cardinal Dulles was a quintessentially American thinker

a quarter of a century of friendship with cardinal avery dulles, sj, who died 10 years ago this month, left me with many happy memories. two...

The values that defined Bush 41

george herbert walker bush – the 41st us president – never wrote a post-presidential memoir. his son, george w bush – the 43rd president – g...

Fr Raymond de Souza

Newman's greatest achievement: putting the personal over the abstract

what were shakespeare’s greatest play and leonardo’s greatest painting? the very questioning is contentious and sparks verbal wars, most vio...

Fr George Rutler

Diary

i have always fancied myself as a natural diplomat who might have missed my true calling in life. until, that is, i came head to head with m...

Madeleine Teahan

An election, an archbishop, and a tale of modern India

political interference is suspected after hundreds of christians, including a catholic archbishop, were denied their right to vote in indian...

Last orders? Spain's vanishing monasteries

catholics in spain have voiced alarm at the rapid decline of monastic life in the country, despite reassurances from church leaders. “we are...

Jonathan Luxmoore