Catholic Church

my son aidan is getting married next month. he and his bride will have their nuptial mass in cumnock, my old home town in ayrshire. to be ho...

Sir James MacMillan

the hymn “onward, christian soldiers” has a line reminding us: “brothers, we are treading/where the saints have trod”. english catholics oug...

Joanna Bogle

recent media coverage of gk chesterton’s possible canonisation morphed into speculation as to when he would be made a saint. misunderstandin...

KV Turley

it was thirty years ago this summer that st john paul ii promulgated pastor bonus, his reorganization of the roman curia, completing the cur...

Fr Raymond de Souza

theodore mccarrick did not want to be known as a father. he encouraged young men and boys to call him “uncle”, and called them his nephews i...

Matthew Schmitz

book extract a parish, by nature, is missionary. it opens out. it does not fold in upon itself. jesus sent his disciples: ‘‘go into all the ...

Cardinal Francis Arinze

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

the great french catholic poet, journalist and polemicist charles péguy died at the first battle of the marne at the very outset of the firs...

John Milbank

what is a catholic to make of a “mass” in which the celebrant throws the host to the ground and smashes the communion chalice in fury? the a...

Damian Thompson

rood screens by richard hayman, shire books, 64pp, £7.99 rood screens? surely you can’t write a whole book about them – and, if you do, sure...

Harry Mount