Catholic Church

the sspx is often referred to in the secular media as an “ultra-traditionalist” or “extremist” body. this risks exhausting the adjectives ne...

Dan Hitchens

the internationally renowned psychiatrist and holocaust survivor viktor frankl experienced first hand the utter depravity of auschwitz and d...

Bishop Peter Comensoli

the knights of malta crisis brought rare attention to the issue of sovereignty for entities that are not territorial states – like the holy ...

Fr Raymond de Souza

through the centre of siena runs the ancient pilgrimage route known as the via francigena, which begins in canterbury and ends in rome. last...

Sally Axworthy

carmine pariante may be the most important scientist you’ve never heard of. he is a professor of biological psychiatry at king’s college, lo...

Rachel Kelly

francis’s guiding light for the remarried sir – david baugh, a divorced catholic now in a happy, stable relationship with a widowed lady, re...

The Catholic Herald

in november 1990 at the shrine auditorium in la, a rugged, ripped bruce springsteen stood on stage and drawled: “this song is about the pric...

Madeleine Teahan

strangers in a strange land by charles j chaput, henry holt, £20 archbishop charles chaput has been one of the bright stars of the american ...

Gerald Russello

fordham: the history of the jesuit university of new york by thomas shelley (fordham university press, £34) . since 1841 fordham has played ...

Staff writers

cured blindness st valentine is a 3rd-century saint universally known as the patron saint of romance. although his feast is marked by both b...

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