Catholic Church

Omnium Gatherum

we are firmly ensconced in the green season, called in the traditional roman calendar the season of pentecost, this sunday being its fifth a...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf

Mass readings

ordinary form divine office week iii sunday, july 9: 14th sunday in ordinary time zec 9:9-10; ps 145; rom 8:9, 11-13; mt 11:25-30 monday, ju...
The Catholic Herald

Pictures of the week

1 archbishop bernard longley has ordained seven deacons, for the dioceses of birmingham, brentwood, cardiff, hallam, menevia and salford, at...
The Catholic Herald

Prize crossword 0498

cryptic across 5 disastrous blow to harem seeing an apostle (11) 7 sanctimonious press man’s patchily colourful (4) 8 joy’s transport? (8) 9...
Alun Evans

Anthony Burgess was a gifted writer, but had the theology of a lapsed Catholic bore

When it came to religion, the dazzling novelist was achingly dull
Jonathan Wright

Will Catholics be branded ‘extremists’?

straight after the incident outside finsbury park mosque in the early hours of june 19, when a man drove a van into a crowd of muslims, ther...
Dennis Sewell

Pope praises late-Cardinal Meisner's faithful, fearless dedication

Pope Francis prayed God would reward the cardinal for his 'faithful and fearless dedication to the well-being of the people of the East and West'
Carol Glatz

Morning Catholic must-reads: 06/07/17

A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church
Luke Coppen

Jacob Rees-Mogg has chosen an excellent Catholic name for his newborn son

The Conservative MP's sixth child can learn a lot from his historical namesakes
Jonathan Wright

Devotion to the Precious Blood is needed now more than ever

Greater reception of Communion under both kinds is weakening, not strengthening, our appreciation of the Precious Blood
Pastor Iuventus