Catholic Church

What’s the problem with medieval mysticism?

rebekah lamb looks back to the days when the virgin mary would chastise bishops mary and the art of prayer by rachel fulton brown, columbia,...
Rebekah Lamb

The beautiful order of the Anglo-Saxons

there are more ancient bibles at anglo-saxon kingdoms: art, word, war, the splendid new exhibition at the british library, than most of us w...
David V Barrett

New light shed on Michelangelo’s Pietà

the display of michelangelo’s first contribution to st peter’s, the pietà, within the gigantic basilica which he himself designed much later...
Gregory DiPippo

Comments of the week

letters should include a genuine postal or email address, phone number and the style or title of the writer. email: letters@catholicherald.c...
The Catholic Herald

Pakistan’s test case

it was an unforgettable moment when i was woken at 5am by a phone call to say that asia bibi had been acquitted by pakistan’s supreme court....
John Pontifex

Why Britain has a problem with adoption

we are accustomed to seeing photographs of american film stars with their adopted children. madonna has four, angelina jolie has three and m...
Mary Kenny

The Nordic Newman

before the advent of lutheranism, the finnish people had been catholic for about 400 years. a hymn in the finnish lutheran hymnal contains t...
Emil Anton

In Rome, tradition is doing good business

when i return to rome, i feel a foolish mixture of excitement and pride, as though the city belongs to me. or rather, as though i belong to ...
Matthew Schmitz

The Jesuit who stood up to Moscow

"to hell with moscow!” it is manifestly unfair to sum up thus the long and distinguished academic career and ecclesial life of fr robert taf...
Fr Raymond de Souza

The pope, the general and Europe’s tragedy

While Field Marshal Haig was worrying about Catholic 'taint', Benedict XV was assiduously seeking peace between warring nations
Allan Mallinson