Catholic News

Study: don’t judge Church schools on free meals

the number of children who receive free school meals (fsm) is a misleading indicator of a school’s socio-economic composition, catholic acad...
Madeleine Teahan

Small drop in number of priests worldwide

the number of priests in the world dropped by 136 during 2015, the vatican has reported. the increased number of priests in african dioceses...
Staff writers

Papal envoy praises Medjugorje’s ‘climate’

pope francis’s envoy to medjugorje has said that “there is a special spiritual climate” in the town. archbishop henryk hoser of warsaw-praga...
Staff Reporter

News in brief

francis names priest to oversee abuse cases pope francis has named mgr john kennedy as head of the discipline section of the congregation of...
The Catholic Herald

Britain’s unhinged row over Easter

on her way to saudi arabia last week, theresa may was asked about easter eggs – specifically, about the national trust dropping the word “ea...
Dan Hitchens

Colin Brazier: Facebook doesn’t know you’re dead

last month facebook sent me an email to remind me that it was ken’s birthday. a delightful man, ken. right up to his death, two years ago. t...
Colin Brazier

William Cash: How to dodge that EU divorce bill

some myths need to be cleared up about the reported £61 billion “divorce bill” that brussels hopes to force britain to pay before its depart...
William Cash

On the road

my favourite of the eastertide gospels is luke’s account of the disciples on the road to emmaus. it appears at first to be the sort of thing...
Anthony Esolen

Richard Ingrams: The Gospels as journalism

hearing the traditional easter gospel reading (john 20) always reminds me of graham greene’s reaction to it – that it is reportage, a factua...
Richard Ingrams

Lectio Divina

easter sunday: matthew 28:1-10 1 after the sabbath, as sunday morning was dawning, mary magdalene and the other mary went to look at the tom...
Mgr Anthony Abela