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✣ highlights from the week online we need to catch up with the global south despite lazy assumptions, the postcolonial world is a trend-sett...

Scottish Catholics ‘to overtake Presbyterians’

catholicism is likely to become the largest churchgoing denomination in scotland, according to new projections. figures from the 2016 scotti...

Orthodox leader to join the Pope in Egypt

the ecumenical patriarch of constantinople was scheduled to attend a peace conference in cairo today with pope francis and sheikh ahmed el-t...

Arson attack on Nepal’s cathedral

arsonists have attempted to set fire to assumption cathedral, the first public catholic place of worship in hindu-majority nepal. fr ignatiu...

News in brief

cardinal issues plea for peace to buddhists cardinal jean-louis tauran, head of the pontifical council for interreligious dialogue, has issu...

'Somebody has to say this'

rod dreher thinks that christians will soon be a tiny, embattled minority in the west – unless they embrace the radical ‘benedict option’. i...

Mary Kenny: An absurd crackdown on Jehovah’s Witnesses

it could be said that there is not a lot of common ground between the jehovah’s witnesses and the catholic church. the watchtower, the jw’s ...

Comments of the week

the meaning of easter in an eggshell sir – the thing about easter egg hunts (news focus, april 14) is that they are grounded in the symbolic...

The Catholic Herald

Film: The Promise

the genocide of armenians by the ottomans from 1915 to 1923 claimed the lives of more than 1.5 million men, women and children. it’s a black...

A visitor’s guide to the Catholic theological zoo

catholic theology by tracey rowland, bloomsbury t&t clark, £14.99 catholic theology introduces the catholic tradition by focusing on “fo...