Catholic News

Cause of Fr Hamel is officially opened

the archdiocese of rouen has opened a formal inquiry into the cause for beatification of fr jacques hamel, who was killed while celebrating ...

In brief

euthanasia cases in oregon steadily rising a study in the journal jama oncology has found the number of euthanasia cases in oregon has risen...

Why do Christians in Syria back Assad?

last week sister carolin tahhan fachakh, a salesian, spoke out against us president donald trump’s decision to bomb syria. only two weeks af...

Madeleine Teahan

Melissa Kite: Giving up the news for Lent

they say ignorance is bliss and i’m starting to believe it. for a journ-alist by trade, this is a humiliating volte face. i always thought k...

Science and faith: Five letters could change your life

clergy, accountants, teachers, business managers, social workers, parents – that’s just the beginning of a long list of vocations whose job ...

Quentin de la Bedoyere

Comments of the week

the irish church is stronger than it seems sir – i find it hard to recognise the very negative picture of the irish church given by jon ande...

The Catholic Herald

Film: National treasures keep calm and carry on

nostalgia ain’t what it used to be. the spectre of the “well-made british film” – well-cast, well-acted and well-dressed, yet so emotionally...

Don’t blame the Frankfurt School

what are they teaching the children? edited by lynda rose, wilberforce, £12 not a day seems to pass these days without a story in the newspa...

Word This Week

the second sunday of easter acts 2: 42-47; 1 pet 1:3-9; jn 20:19-31 (year a) ‘you did not see him, yet you love him; and still without seein...

Bishop David McGough

Pictures of the week

1 young people from the diocese of dunkeld carry the wyd cross with clergy at a national youth event at st mary’s monastery in kinnoull, per...

The Catholic Herald