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Why we’re struggling to defeat extremism

isis recruits are often portrayed in the west as having been ordinary people prior to some sudden moment of radicalisation, shortly before t...

I attacked the ordinariate. Now I’m a Catholic

autumn 2007 haverhill, massachusetts, is a rusty, decaying old industrial town. it peaked in the 1940s, when it was the hub of shoemaking an...

Michael Warren Davis

Theatre: Give this bonkers Cold War Woyzeck a miss

georg büchner wrote woyzeck in 1837, the year he died, aged 23. there was no definitive text, just fragments of paper. it wasn’t performed f...

The rape victim who forgave her attacker

in 1996, thordis elva, an icelandic teenager, was raped for two hours by tom stranger, her australian boyfriend. some years later they embar...

Briefly noted

the image of god, personhood and the embryo by calum mackellar (scm press, £35) . the author, an expert on medical ethics and visiting profe...

Pictures of the week

1 vatican archbishop paul gallagher attends the golden jubilee celebrations at liverpool’s metropolitan cathedral (photo: mazur/catholicnews...

The Catholic Herald

Prize crossword 0495

cryptic across 5 parking areas by canal perhaps, in west london (9) 8 troubled piece of land, a zone in georgia (4) 9 american, a bachelor a...

Comments of the week

don’t jump to conclusions on medjugorje sir – a few points regarding the letter on medjugorje from dp collins (june 2). first, he speaks of ...

The Catholic Herald

I attacked the ordinariate. Now I’m a Catholic

A friend convinced me to visit Boston's ordinariate community. What followed was a revelation

Michael Warren Davis

Cameroon’s bishops confirm Bishop Jean-Marie Benoit Balla was murdered

A note in the bishop's car indicated he had committed suicide, but investigators later found signs of torture on his body

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