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End of an era

what future for benedictine schools after a damning abuse report? downside and ampleforth: even these beautiful names are evocative. they su...

Abuse crisis: Only the beginning

as more allegations emerge in the us, bishops clash over the shape of a future inquiry cardinal donald wuerl succeeded theodore mccarrick as...

Michael Warren Davis

Just the thought made me sweat

in hindsight it was inevitable. but at the time i couldn’t think of anything more calamitous than becoming catholic. i was studying at an an...

The freedom to be unfashionable

jacob rees-mogg put the matter in a balanced – if somewhat orotund – way: he did not consider that a burka added to any woman’s “pulchritude...

Comments of the week

letters should include a genuine postal or email address, phone number and the style or title of the writer. email: letters@catholicherald.c...

The Catholic Herald

Rock stars who can’t leave the faith behind

"pope francis is a true rock star.” who says? an actual rock star. sting, formerly of the police, attended a general audience recently and w...

Feted by his fans, abused by racists

making oscar wilde by michèle mendelssohn, oup, 360pp, £20 in january 1882, oscar wilde toured america with a trunkful of lace-trimmed velve...

The free-spirited woman who found grace

dorothy day: an introduction by terence c wright, ignatius, 162pp, £12 the author, an academic at the st john vianney theological seminary i...

Charlie Hegarty

The big story of the past seven days

✣ ✣ argentina’s senate rejects abortion on demand what happened? the argentine senate rejected a bill legalising abortion on demand for the ...

The new destitution

co-written with andrew dorsey last month, as the school holidays began, children and teachers breathed a sigh of relief. but at one school i...