Catholic Church

Bishops’ apology for genocide role reopens row

the bishops of rwanda have asked forgiveness for catholics’ role in the 1994 genocide in which more than 800,000 people – mostly ethnic tuts...

Pope: I’ve doubted ‘many times’

everyone experiences doubts about their faith occasionally – “i have many times,” pope francis said – but such doubts can be “a sign that we...

A sleeping giant stirs in France

the tide of political change has reached france. françois fillon, nominated as the republicans’ presidential candidate on sunday, was the ou...

Madeleine Teahan

The ‘establishment’ cardinal sent into exile

pope francis and cardinal raymond burke have a number of things in common. both are advocates of popular piety: the pope went all the way to...

How the ‘dubia’ drama will end

prognostications are a dangerous pastime for commentators, and in the papacy of pope francis the business of making predictions seems a part...

A fragile haven for Christians

aradin, kurdistan "isis isn’t the main reason why christians are leaving iraq now,” says elizabeth sana. “it’s lack of work.” she is the sup...

Bess Twiston-Davies

The next battlefront for religious freedom

one reason donald trump was able to put together a coalition big enough to get him elected as president was that there were so many single i...

Mary Kenny: The Catholic with his eye on the Elysée Palace

my cousins in paris – where i’ve been spending a few days – have been very pleased by the emergence of françois fillon as the presidential c...

Comments of the Week

end this postcode lottery of annulments sir – not long after our marriage my husband wanted to “revert” to the church. i, as an anglican, wi...

The Catholic Herald

The power and glory of Eliot’s Little Gidding

across the fields from the a1, nine miles from huntingdon, is the isolated church of st john the evangelist, little gidding. ts eliot visite...