Catholic Church

we are standing on london bridge and i am waving my arms about describing a saxon-viking battle that took place there about 60 years before ...

Joanna Bogle

why on earth do we stay in a church in which clerics commit sexual abuse? the easiest answer is realism. we tell ourselves that some sexual ...

Tim Stanley

throughout all the years of my involvement with the church, the parish has been taken as the crucial ecclesial institution. talk to almost a...

Bishop Robert Barron

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

in one of those gorgeous verbal doodles with which he filled the pages of his absorbing (and at the time quite illegal) wartime journal, hug...

Matthew Walther

how can the church deal with claims of apparitions in an increasingly secular, disbelieving world? that is one of the questions at the heart...

Will Gore

cardinal vincent nichols, the archbishop of westminster, has written faith finding a voice (bloomsbury, 352pp, £12.99), a reflective book th...

Francis Phillips

shall we look at the collect for this sunday’s holy mass in the ordinary form? protector in te sperantium, deus, sine quo nihil est validum,...

Fr John Zuhlsdorf

summer is a curious time in parishes. everything goes into suspended animation, and this year more so than ever, with the never-ending hot w...

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

cryptic across 5 graphic details portrayed on local maps (3,6) 8 in jordan on every level, primarily, there’s a prophet (4) 9 old actor: in ...

Alun Evans