Catholic Church

How ordinary Catholics can respond to the Church's crisis

at risk of sounding like a scratched disc: the crisis in which the catholic church is embroiled at present is global, protracted, and persis...

Christopher R. Altieri

Twenty years on, Youth 2000 has a new project: forming missionary disciples

it was 1990 and i was studying for my university exams when i received a phone call from a mysterious benefactor. “i’d like to help you,” th...

Morning Catholic must-reads: 23/11/18

the holy see’s request that the us bishops not vote on abuse-related measures was “disappointing” , cardinal blase cupich has said. human bo...

Cafod defends appointment of Christine Allen as director

Allen has criticised Church teaching on contraception, saying it was part of a 'battle' about 'the very nature of church'

Letters & emails

our own holiness will mend the church sir – in the opening paragraph of his article “the root of the abuse crisis” (august 31), christopher ...

The Catholic Herald

We need an answer to idolatrous nationalism. But don't look to Emmanuel Macron

The way to head off the worst strains of nationalism is to pre-empt them with more humane appeals to legitimate concerns for national identity

Behind the scenes at the world’s most celebrated Passion Play

Every ten years, half the population of the small town of Oberammergau appears in the spectacular production

What Catholics lose when they leave the Church

Ex-Catholics never seem to propose any higher, truer teaching than the Catholic faith

Matthew Schmitz

A Renaissance painter of thrilling tactility

Lorenzo Lotto’s works rivalled the extravagance of his sitters

Why 'A Dance to the Music of Time' features little Catholicism but a lot of mumbo-jumbo

for many, myself among them, evelyn waugh, graham greene and anthony powell were the outstanding english novelists of the middle decades of ...