Catholic News

Does the Christmas classic ‘Baby, it’s Cold Outside’ really promote date rape?

a controversy has erupted on american airwaves: should frank loesser’s christmas classic, baby, it’s cold outside, be banned by radio statio...

How America helped revive the Boar's Head feast

we americans have a way of taking european customs and cultural items, reinventing them to our liking, and as often as not sending them back...

Charles Coulombe

The double message of Christmas

i’ve never been happy with some of my activist friends who send out christmas cards with messages like: “may the peace of christ disturb you...

Fr Ronald Rolheiser

Omnium Gatherum

the image’s deceptive simplicity is of an order accomplished only by a master. brown ink pen strokes. brown wash. traces of black lead. the ...

Fr John Zuhlsdorf

How to feast like a medieval Catholic

"good day, sir christmas, our king!” proclaims an english carol of the 15th century, welcoming the beginning of the christmas season, and te...

The hammer that laid Europe’s foundations

as europe passed the poignant milestone of november 11, it could have escaped no one’s attention what inspired the project to unite the cont...

It’s been a bad year for human rights. But there are still reasons to hope

"the people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned.” with those words ...

Benedict Rogers

The plot to depose Henry VIII

if a zealous priest called gregory botolph had guarded his tongue more carefully in holy week of 1540, england might well be a catholic coun...

Jack Scarisbrick

Northern Ireland's lesson for Brexit Britain

a depressing phenomenon has occurred in the years since britain voted to leave the european union back in june 2016. the national argument h...

Jenny McCartney

Our society needs a Scrooge-like conversion

forget the panto; the classy destination in the run-up to christmas in london is simon callow’s terrific one-man rendition of a christmas ca...

Melanie McDonagh