Catholic News

in 2015, a government inspector at a michigan meatpacking factory found some offensive material in the lunch room: a “tract” – we don’t know...

Dan Hitchens

the people at the shrine in fatima approached me some years ago about writing a new work to mark the centenary of the apparitions in 2017. i...

Sir James MacMillan

sunday, may 13, 1917 would prove to be an auspicious day, both for the catholic church and for the whole tumultuous course of the 20th centu...

Stephen Bullivant

the question in the headline implies that the expected answer is “no”, but as a former particle physicist, my response is “why not?” contrar...

Fr Andrew Pinsent

yesterday i had a telephone call from rupert (not his real name). i usually see him once a fortnight but recently he has been away suffering...

Quentin de la Bedoyere

back in brussels. not to present brexit news, but to speak to meps at the european parliament. they want to hear about sky tv’s campaign aga...

Colin Brazier

malta seems to be tailor-made for those who, like me, can’t help wondering if and how one can remain fully catholic in this era of globalisa...

Paolo Gambi

ireland has been criticised – even condemned – once again because the performer and writer stephen fry has been accused of blasphemy, under ...

Mary Kenny

benedict xvi once noted that in the early church, converts were asked to renounce not just the devil’s sins but also his pomp. pomp partly r...

Tim Stanley

of the dozen or so sites where the church accepts that mary, the mother of god, has appeared in visions, i have been to three – two as a tou...

Piers Paul Read