Catholic News

Population alarmism stinks

A lot of lessons can be learnt about population control from horse manure
Fr Raymond de Souza

BBC attacked over coverage of MP’s ashes

the bbc has provoked a backlash by asking whether it was “appropriate” for an mp to wear her ashes at a house of commons select committee he...
Staff writers

Sex education to be compulsory in all schools

government plans to make sex education compulsory in all schools have been condemned by a pro-life charity but welcomed by the catholic educ...
Staff writers

Catholics shelter Copts fleeing terrorists

catholic churches and schools are offering shelter to coptic orthodox families fleeing isis in egypt’s north sinai region. fr rafic greiche,...
Staff writers

Population alarmism stinks

horsesh––. that’s what came to mind when reading reports of the recent meeting of the pontifical academy of social sciences (pass), convened...
Fr Raymond de Souza

Mary Kenny: Sex education and the city

there’s nothing wrong with sex education, even for quite young children, as is now being proposed. it’s understandable that we don’t want to...
Mary Kenny

Comments of the week

as a prisoner, i know bishop moth is right sir – i write to offer my gratitude to bishop richard moth for highlighting the desperate fact th...
The Catholic Herald

Fine Art: Refugee horrors captured by a lab-cold lens

the maltese ship that decorated the nativity scene in st peter’s square this past christmas memorialised the plight of the refugee, a haunti...
Miguel Cullen

Lectio Divina

1 six days later jesus took with him peter and the brothers james and john and led them up a high mountain where they were alone. 2 as they ...
Mgr Anthony Abela

Pictures of the week

1 cardinal vincent nichols distributes ashes to choristers at westminster cathedral (mazur/catholicnews.org.uk). 2 the norwich circle of the...
The Catholic Herald