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The tragic college footballer who showed how Catholicism and sport can mix

to rebuild the church after the french revolution, abbe louis lafosse founded the institute of christian education at echauffour in orne, fr...
Stephen Schmalhofer

Morning Catholic must-reads: 01/02/19

the chinese government has recognised another underground bishop . bishop richard williamson has lost an appeal to the european court of hum...
Luke Coppen

Catholics raise $36,000 scholarship fund for Nick Sandmann

catholics from across america have raised $36,100 for a scholarship fund for nick sandmann and his two younger siblings. members of the grou...
Nick Hallett

Two weeks after Covington, the post-mortem continues

there’s something ironic about journalists criticising children with an enormous megaphone and yet maintaining that they are on the side of ...
Jordan Bloom

King Charles I, Founding Father

what was “washington’s birthday” is quickly approaching us: now often redubbed “presidents’ day”, the repackaging allows us to forget “linco...
Charles Coulombe

Dear Fr Rutler: I don't like giving the sign of peace. Is that wrong?

dear father rutler, i don’t like giving the sign of the peace at mass. it seems to me like a needless distraction. i can glad-hand mrs smith...
Fr George Rutler

In today's Church, ugliness is finally in decline

i was in the fitzwilliam museum, cambridge, last week, nosing around a sarcophagus, when a man with a beard asked if i was who he thought i ...
Tim Stanley

A biography of Bugnini paints a startling picture

for christmas i was given a copy of the newly translated biography of annibale bugnini, architect of the novus ordo mass – and hero or émine...
Fr Dominic Allain

Pope Francis has made dialogue with the Muslim world a top priority

at 8:45am last sunday, a bomb exploded during mass near the cathedral of our lady of mount carmel in the southern philippines. it shattered ...
The Catholic Herald

Week in review

the big story of the past seven days ✣ pope francis: i’ll think about exceptions on priestly celibacy what happened? pope francis said on mo...
Staff writers