Catholic News

The pastoral challenge of the ‘gig economy’

is swearing a moral issue? in the past, we were taught that invoking “the holy name” blasphemously was indeed an offence. but there are so m...

There was nothing inevitable about it

we’re fast approaching the 30th anniversary of the opening of the berlin wall, which helped spell the end of communism. east germany was mor...

What’s changed in my lifetime? Almost everything

i seem to have had a quiet life. yes, it began with deciding the proximity of the next nazi bomb through the tune of its whistle or seeing h...

Quentin de la Bedoyere

The return of the Communion wars

joe biden, a frontrunner for the   democratic party’s presidential  nomination, is a lifelong catholic who has drifted leftward si...

World news: from Brazil to Berlin

washington, dc new rules to protect catholic adoption agencies catholic adoption agencies will be able to follow church teaching without los...

Meanwhile: An Underground connection

✣ it’s always good to see a london underground station being reminded of its roots. there hasn’t been a dominican priory on the banks of the...

The week ahead: Remembrance, Confirmations, Bishops' Assembly

on sunday november 10, catholics will be taking part in remembrance sunday, when the war dead are commemorated. in oxford, for example, ther...

Overlooked: 'LGBT Masses' return to Britain

what happened? masses for the lgbt community have returned to britain, almost seven years after archbishop vincent nichols ended them in wes...

Letters: The Newman line that inspired me to convert

newman inspired me to come home sir – john owen writes (letters, october 25) that st john henry newman’s “greatest miracle has been the conv...

The Catholic Herald

Vietnam's heartbreaking half-century

the reports of 39 people – now assumed to be vietnamese – who froze to death in a lorry container coming from zeebrugge, and found in essex ...