Catholic Church

Even amid attempts at revolution, Rome remains the same

Visiting the Eternal City feels like a kind of homecoming

Matthew Schmitz

Did anti-Catholicism increase First World War casualties?

Senior commanders were suspicious of the Church's peace efforts, and of Catholic soldiers

Allan Mallinson

Omnium Gatherum

the terrible first world war ended at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month, 1918. this sunday marks the 100th anniversary of armistice day...

Fr John Zuhlsdorf

A visionary defence of married love

charlie hegarty hails a brave minority voice from 1968 the encyclical humanae vitae by dietrich von hildebrand, hildebrand press, 136pp, £8....

Charlie Hegarty

A military order that survived covetous kings

piers paul read on how the knights hospitaller adjusted to the post-crusades era the knights hospitaller in great britain by michael hodges,...

Piers Paul Read

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,...

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

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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....