Catholic Church

How do we feed a million children a day? Only by the grace of God

Our continuing work is testament to the great graces of mercy we have received during this year
Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow

A tale of three Christmases

In the birthplace of Christianity, the different calendars used by churches mean that Christmas comes more than once a year
Jill, Duchess of Hamilton

The saint with Aristotle on his finger

The next time someone claims that the 16th-century English Church was backward and superstitious, tell them about this ring
Fr Raymond de Souza

Film review: Scorsese's Silence is magnificent and moving

This is a tale of anti-Christian persecution that speaks loudly and dreadfully to modern times
Will Gore

Martin Scorsese interview: ‘Catholicism is always in you’

The director was dismissed from the seminary as a young man. But his personal pilgrimage has never ended
Gabrielle Donnelly

Film review: Scorsese's Silence is magnificent and moving

martin scorsese has always had an enigmatic relationship with the catholic church. in the past, the rightly revered director has described h...
Will Gore

Let Christ be born anew

on christmas day we celebrate the moment when god came to us in human flesh. the mystery and event of the incarnation made possible the sanc...
Fr Julian Large

The big story of the past seven days

✣  bombing at cairo church kills women and children what happened? twenty-five people were killed at a church in cairo when a suicide b...
Staff writers

The best of the Catholic blogosphere

✣   highlights from the week online hats off to the fun and practical saturno catholic bloggers leapt to the defence of the clerical he...
Staff writers

In brief

vatican dicastery to look at just war theory cardinal peter turkson has told reporters that the new vatican dicastery for justice, peace and...
Staff writers