Catholic News

Is Christianity better sung than said?

music and faith by jonathan arnold boydell, 288pp, £30/$40 few readers of this magazine would, i imagine, challenge the idea that music is a...

Letters: Do English Catholics still cherish Our Lady?

sir – nowadays one rarely sees saturday masses of our lady in parishes. masses celebrated on saturday are mostly vigils of the sunday, and e...

The Catholic Herald

The Polish Church is under attack, but it is standing firm

poland’s bishops recently commemorated the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the second world war with their german counterparts. their sh...

Jonathan Luxmoore

Forget 'kiddie music', children love plainchant

in epiphany parish, where i’m the parochial administrator, reports are streaming in of children chanting kyrie eleisons while playing with t...

Fr Michael Rennier

Why is the Church not standing up for parental rights?

across the world, parents are engaged in battles with local and national governments over their right to decide how sex education is taught ...

How America embraced Newman

the recent news that the bishop of northampton has declined to move forward with the cause for the canonisation of gk chesterton was not wel...

The growing worldwide threat to confessional secrecy

the australian state of victoria has passed a new mandatory reporting law, which does not respect the seal of the confessional. the bill had...

Christopher R. Altieri

World news: from St Paul to Salta

st paul, minnesota first abuse investigation under new bishops’ law an archbishop will investigate cover-up allegations against a local bish...

Meanwhile: Abba inside the Vatican, 'Day of Sobriety'

you might imagine that vatican officials would only listen to monteverdi and palestrina. but archbishop paul gallagher, the holy see’s forei...

The best of the web: Chinese demolitions, forgotten conservative thinker, Amazon synod protests

in china, 18 months of demolition at asia news, fr bernardo cervellera summarised the situation of chinese catholics. it includes “churches ...