Catholic Church

Omnium Gatherum

forty days out from christmas we reach the final marker of the advent to epiphany cycle. in the traditional calendar, february 2 is the feas...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf

Mass readings

ordinary form divine office week vi sunday, january 29: fourth sunday in ordinary time zep 2:3; 3:12-13; ps 146; 1 cor 1:26-31; mt 5:1-12a m...
The Catholic Herald

Pictures of the Week

1 lord alton of liverpool receives the commander’s cross of the order of merit of hungary from hungarian ambassador kristóf szalay-bobrovnic...
The Catholic Herald

January 29 to February 4

cardinal nichols (westminster) tue-wed: joint catholic-anglican bishops’ meeting, the royal angus hotel, birmingham, 11.00am. thu: mass for ...
The Catholic Herald

Prize crossword 0475

cryptic across 1 joiner of clubs and writer, carter somehow gets about (9) 6 silence found on the edge of tundra wood (3) 9 girl, nancy, is ...
Alun Evans

Stuart Reid: What I learned on the Women’s March

the northern line tube train going into central london from balham was packed with jolly middle-class people, all of them well (though casua...
Stuart Reid

The Noonday Devil and Sabbath

early christian monks believed in something they called acedia. more colloquially, they called it the noonday devil, a name that essentially...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser

Francis isn't the first Pope to intervene in an Order's affairs. But papal power can go too far

Protestant and Orthodox Christians may well ask what this says about the institution of the papacy
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

Morning Catholic must-reads: 26/01/17

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

What I learned on the Women’s March

Stuart Reid joins 'jolly middle-class women' on the Trump demo
Stuart Reid