Catholic Church

How anti-Catholic are the DUP?

the deal between the conservatives and the democratic unionist party to maintain the new government at westminster has focused attention on ...
Jon Anderson

Francis and the power of the hug

it is not an artful photograph but the image is all the more potent for its simplicity. in the aftermath of the grenfell tower disaster, jer...
Stephen Daisley

An order emerges from the shadows

on thursday, september 13, 1917, a sydney newspaper, the catholic press , reported on one of the “most notable and impressive ceremonies and...
Jonathan Wright

What rock climbing taught me about God

"do you think balthasar will have a lasting influence?” that was one of the questions fr kacper malicki asked on the trail down from the mni...
R.R. Reno

Comments of the week

would lourdes be approved today? sir – donal foley is quite right in his cautionary comments regarding medjugorje (letter, june 16). the chu...
The Catholic Herald

God, the Devil and comic book Catholicism

superheroes seem to be everywhere these days. wonder woman has just exploded onto the silver screen – and spiderman and thor are due to retu...
John Newton

Music: A mini La Scala in the depths of Surrey

of all the movers and shakers in british musical life there’s none so dynamic as the boss of grange park opera, wasfi kani, whose new countr...
Michael White

A forthright priest takes a jab at ‘trendy thinking’

that nothing may be lost by fr paul scalia, ignatius, £13.99 you may think this author’s name rings a bell. if so, you are right. fr paul sc...
Michael Duggan

Omnium Gatherum

july is traditionally dedicated to veneration of the most precious blood of the lord. from the earliest days of the church, christians have ...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf

Lectio Divina

follow in my footsteps 13th sunday in ordinary time: mt 10:37-42 the bible society’s lectio divina is unavailable for this sunday. we reprod...
The Catholic Herald