Catholic Church

The rural Catholic crisis

one of british catholicism’s most significant divides is between urban and rural. the church is most visible in towns and cities: there are ...

Constance Watson

Fr Raymond J de Souza: A religious order for difficult times

in this year of significant religious anniversaries, the 800 years since st francis sent the first friars to the holy land does not register...

Fr Raymond de Souza

A jaw-dropping new pilgrimage trail

on the feast of st james – the patron of the greatest walking pilgrimage in the world, the camino di santiago – i set off on the newly minte...

'Somebody has to say this'

rod dreher thinks that christians will soon be a tiny, embattled minority in the west – unless they embrace the radical ‘benedict option’. i...

Mary Kenny: An absurd crackdown on Jehovah’s Witnesses

it could be said that there is not a lot of common ground between the jehovah’s witnesses and the catholic church. the watchtower, the jw’s ...

Comments of the week

the meaning of easter in an eggshell sir – the thing about easter egg hunts (news focus, april 14) is that they are grounded in the symbolic...

The Catholic Herald

The grime king who is ‘blinded by grace’

like many catholics of my age, the “home turf” of my liturgical music taste is of a rather traditional bent. my wife and i got married to th...

Fine art: Tiny masterpieces as splendid as any Botticelli

most of our encounters with the religious art of renaissance italy are made in either churches or galleries. all too easily we ignore the br...

Jonathan Keates

Music: The snazzy choir that lacks substance

st john’s, smith square used to be a venue with a questionable future, with occasionally fewer people in the audience than on the platform. ...

A visitor’s guide to the Catholic theological zoo

catholic theology by tracey rowland, bloomsbury t&t clark, £14.99 catholic theology introduces the catholic tradition by focusing on “fo...