Catholic Church

Britain’s unhinged row over Easter

on her way to saudi arabia last week, theresa may was asked about easter eggs – specifically, about the national trust dropping the word “ea...

How my Ash Wednesday cross went viral

wednesdays in parliament are always hectic, with committees, prime minister’s questions and journalists vying for interviews. therefore, on ...

The Ratzinger revolution

benedict xvi will celebrate his 90th birthday on easter sunday. cardinal joachim meisner famously described him as a man who is as inte...

The Cross ISIS couldn't destroy

returning to england after a few days in iraq, it is the sound of broken glass and rubble, crunching underfoot in one of the many destroyed ...

Fr Benedict Kiely

Richard Ingrams: The Gospels as journalism

hearing the traditional easter gospel reading (john 20) always reminds me of graham greene’s reaction to it – that it is reportage, a factua...

Richard Ingrams

Mary Kenny: Let's raise statues to Christian feminists

the decision to raise a statue to dame millicent fawcett, the campaigner for votes for women, in london’s parliament square (where there are...

Comments of the week

two encyclicals that changed the world sir – your leading article commemorating the 50th anniversary of populorum progressio (march 31) sugg...

The Catholic Herald

The Mass Henry heard after dispatching More

in the small, dark chapel of a 16th-century country house a priest is saying mass, using the latin rite that in a few years’ time will be a ...

Music: The choir that makes Luther sound charming

readers of the catholic herald are unlikely to be overcome with enthusiasm for the quincentenary of the reformation, which occurs this year....

Fine art: The Venetian upstart who took on Raphael

the raising of lazarus, painted by sebastiano luciani (1485-1547) – known after 1531 as sebastiano del piombo, when pope clement vii gave hi...