Catholic Church

The knights who won’t retreat

the sovereign military order of malta is one of the more improbable success stories of the 21st-century church. founded in 1099 to provide h...

A diplomatic tussle with serious consequences

while the sovereign military order of malta may no longer be military or govern the island of malta, it remains a truly sovereign entity and...

Tunnels beneath the Holy City

a secret world is opening up beneath the twisting flagstone alleys of jerusalem. underground jerusalem. this network of wide tunnels and nar...

Jill, Duchess of Hamilton

The Marian way of winning souls

having lived in london a while, i take pride in my ability to get from a to z (train strikes notwithstanding). at the tail end of a christma...

Liberalism’s crisis of faith

one of the more satisfying recent retrospectives was the look back from the economist, the “newspaper” which offers their readers superlativ...

Fr Raymond de Souza

Mary Kenny: We’ll never wipe out loneliness

yet another report tells us that loneliness in britain today is almost at “epidemic” proportions. according to age uk, half a million people...

Comments of the Week

the day i gave 364 people a decent burial sir – robert ian williams (letter, december 23) asks what provision the church makes for the respe...

The Catholic Herald

Scorsese shows us how the Church should be

i cried three times when watching silence at the covent garden odeon. which is surprising because it’s the least sentimental, most masculine...

Music: A Messiah that nearly had me dancing

like dogs, messiahs are for life, not just for christmas. but they come into their own around december 25. and easily the best i heard over ...

The humble worker who shook up the papacy

father benedict by james day, sophia institute press, £14.50 it is difficult, and sometimes seemingly impossible, to assess someone’s legacy...