Catholic News

Overlooked: Dutch Catholics braced for church closures

what happened? the netherlands is facing mass closures of churches, with the diocese of utrecht likely to lose five in six, a researcher has...
Staff writers

The decision not to open Chesterton's Cause could be providential

there will be no st gilbert of beaconsfield – at least for now. bishop peter doyle has decided not to proceed with gk chesterton’s cause for...
The Catholic Herald

Grandiosity can lead to greatness

we wake up into life with the incurable sense that we’re special, that we’re the centre of the universe. and, subjectively, we are. in our a...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser

This summer, don't take a holiday from God

every summer i put a short announcement in my parish newsletter with the aim of encouraging parishioners to make the effort to find a church...
Fr Matthew Pittam

We're doomed, so let's have a nice cup of tea

the selfish ape by nicholas p money reaktion books, 152pp, £14.99/$20 nicholas money’s new book, subtitled human nature and our path to exti...
Matt Thorne

A four-hour masterpiece that you simply have to see

the opening of burning bush has the look of a sixties teen movie, with grinning kids gyrating to rock ’n’ roll – almost beach party without ...
Carl Curtis

Letters & emails

catholics need a dash of confidence sir – hearing boris johnson expounding in the house of commons his belief in the greatness of the u...
The Catholic Herald

Men's brains aren't wired to notice housework

it’s considered now to be a major cause of inequality between men and women, and a prime factor in the “gender imbalance” of society. that i...
Mary Kenny

The JPII Institute purge is a sign of weakness, not strength

it’s the beginning of the end for amoris laetitia, the document of pope francis on the family which attempted to change the church...
Fr Raymond de Souza

What every Catholic should know about the Eucharist

what does the catechism of the catholic church teach? it teaches that it is by the conversion of the bread and wine into christ’s body and b...
Fr Dwight Longenecker