Catholic Church

Our Catholic heritage is full of treasures. Let's bring them into the classroom

We need a revived Catholic curriculum to reclaim our cultural inheritance, from Bede to 'Lepanto'
Michael Merrick

William Cash: The disturbing reality of the death penalty

last week, when pope francis made his much-discussed change to the catechism entry on the death penalty, i happened to be reading a journali...
William Cash

Penalty time

pope francis is changing the catechism of the catholic church in order to declare that the death penalty is “inadmissible” – in other words,...
The Catholic Herald

The big story of the past seven days

✣ pope orders change to catechism on death penalty what happened? pope francis changed the wording of the catechism on the death penalty. th...
Staff writers

The best of the web

✣ highlights from the week online a saint’s writings finally in print at new liturgical movement, peter kwasniewski drew attention to a majo...
Staff writers

In brief

new orleans centre to promote african-american sainthood candidates xavier university of louisiana has announced that its institute for blac...
Staff writers

Britain: Moving the goalposts on euthanasia

the supreme court takes another step away from church teaching there is utter clarity about catholic teaching on the withdrawal of clinicall...
Simon Caldwell

Religious freedom: Travel ban

a ban on adverts from religious groups on public transport in dc has been upheld last tuesday, the us court of appeals for the district of c...
Michael Warren Davis

US abuse scandal: An unprecedented move

the names of 71 accused clergy have been released by their bishop on thursday, bishop ronald gainer of harrisburg released a list of 71 cler...
Michael Warren Davis

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Desperate measures

a congolese cardinal is resisting calls to run for president last month a coalition of catholic groups in the democratic republic of the con...
Jonathan Luxmoore