Catholic News

In an iconoclastic age, Memorial Day survives

this year, memorial day falls on may 27. in my far-off childhood, it was fixed on may 30. but like so many other civil holidays, in 1971 it ...

Charles Coulombe

The bishops' challenge in Baltimore

last november, following the pennsylvania grand jury allegations of episcopal cover-up in clerical abuse cases, the us bishops met in baltim...

Is pro-choice activism taking an aggressive new turn?

pro-choice activists have long argued that prayer vigils outside abortion clinics constitute a form of “harassment” towards women who come t...

Michael Warren Davis

Language, symbols and self-understanding

a reporter once asked two men at the construction site where a church was being built what each did for a living. the first man replied: “i’...

Fr Ronald Rolheiser

What our prisons say about us

winston churchill said that “the mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailin...

Letters & emails

letter of the week a saint's plea to a young shakespeare sir – joseph pearce (arts, may 10) writes of the jesuit martyr st robert southwell ...

The Catholic Herald

We're rubbish at saving food

i am ashamed of a process that i go through every weekend, as i put out the sunday night rubbish bins to be emptied on monday mornings. what...

The new abuse law is the biggest reform since 2001

pope francis has long argued that a thoroughgoing response to sexual abuse requires a conversion of heart and of ecclesial culture, rather t...

Fr Raymond de Souza

How Britain failed Asia Bibi

at last, asia bibi is free. six months after her acquittal on a trumped-up charge of blasphemy, the pakistani government has confirmed that ...

Church officials disagree over the EU's future

as voters across europe prepare to elect a new european parliament, bishops have urged continued support for the european union against a cu...

Jonathan Luxmoore