Catholic Church

Higher education: Teach first

a new degree in catholic social teaching is now accepting applicants a few years ago, there was an unexpected wave of interest in catholic s...
Dan Hitchens

Youth Synod: Continental shift

african bishops don’t share their western counterparts’ doom and gloom some general assemblies of the synod of bishops have been more closel...
Christopher R. Altieri

In brief

mundelein us bishops to hold retreat on abuse crisis pope francis’s personal preacher will lead a retreat for american bishops early next ye...
Staff writers

Sense and synodality

as the youth synod entered its final week, there was an air of optimism among the bishops. they had spent almost a month listening to the co...
The Catholic Herald

How to decentralise a Church

since his election in 2013, pope francis has often expressed the desire for a more “synodal” style of church life, and commentators on catho...
Fr Mark Drew

Epicentre of low life and high conversation

soho in the eighties by christopher howse, bloomsbury, 266pp, £20 soho in the 1970s, with its strip joints and steamed-up caffs, was an exci...
Ian Thomson

Henry VIII's master of bureaucracy and propaganda

thomas cromwell: a life by diarmaid macculloch, allen lane, 730pp, £30 this new biography is so prodigiously thorough and clever that it is ...
Jack Scarisbrick

Dreamy, languid and above all beautiful

the pre-raphaelite artist sir edward burne-jones was once asked by a young girl if he believed the story he had painted in the star of bethl...
David V Barrett

Letters & emails

what we can learn from 'slum priests' sir – your inspiring and insightful cover story, “a beautiful answer for ugly times” (october 26), rig...
The Catholic Herald

After cultural Catholicism

when i think about the future of the church in america, i like to close my eyes. when i do, i see marian processions, like the ones held by ...
Brandon McGinley