Catholic News

Chapter & verse: The kitchen-table genius of a Catholic poet

allan massie reflects on the life and work of the orkney poet george mackay brown, who saw holiness in the natural world george mackay brown...

Mind the pastoral gap

“you dodged it,” i smiled at my priest as the congregation was filing past him after mass, and he grinned, knowing what i meant. the theme o...

Comments of the week

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The Catholic Herald

Arts essay: Ireland’s farewell to a world of beauty

where will my countrymen find transcendence now, asks michael duggan in the middle of the last century, whenever they needed to experience t...

Film: An elusive figure in the line of fire

under the wire is a documentary about the war correspondent marie colvin. it is also, just as much, a film about her photographer colleague ...

The year couples left the Church ‘on tiptoe’

michael duggan steps into a time machine that takes him back to humanae vitae the schism of ‘68 edited by alana harris, palgrave, 400pp, £69...

Treating reality like a playground

david beer on the new class who have hacked the media the death of the gods by carl miller, heinemann, 400pp, £20 it’s tempting to think of ...

Matthew Walther: The consoling gloom of Paul VI

i have no doubt that giovanni battista enrico antonio maria montini currenly enjoys the beatific vision for the very simple reason that i ha...

Matthew Walther

Catholic U. professor leads response to French president’s remark on large families

The French president had said: 'Present me the woman who decided, being perfectly educated, to have seven, eight or nine children'

Catholic News Agency

Pope tells seminarians to report abuse ‘immediately’

'If you see something like [abuse], [go] immediately to the bishop'

Hannah Brockhaus/CNA