Catholic Church

the new leader promises change. but christians aren’t celebrating yet in a televised speech made after his victory in pakistan’s elections, ...

John Pontifex

it’s 50 years this month since the soviet union abruptly ended the prague spring. on august 21, 1968 alexander dubček’s newly introduced lib...

Petroc Trelawny

england’s greatest shrine of our lady, one among almost 100 in medieval times when devotion to our lady was at its height, began in 1061 as ...

Fr Michael Rear

Armitage has a track record in building institutions and the bishops wanted someone who could develop England’s national Marian shrine

Mark Greaves

august 6th is probably the most common date of secular significance put to homiletic use. preachers for that day’s feast of the transfigurat...

Fr Raymond de Souza

for des mclindon, august 1968 is “just a haze”. yet as his mind spools back half a century, there are pictures, pieces of memory of a partic...

Simon Hart

the benedictine asked his abbot for permission to smoke while he was praying. not only was this refused but he was punished for even asking....

Quentin de la Bedoyere

in 1905, one miss agnew sat at her desk in carlisle and sketched out the “scheme of instruction” for the poor catholic boys and girls of st ...

Michael Merrick

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

did you know that pope francis is the head of a global humanitarian organisation dedicated principally to saving “mother earth”? this is the...

KV Turley