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The big story of the past seven days

✣  pope criticises christians leading a double life what happened? in a homily at morning mass last week pope francis criticised cathol...

The media’s moment of truth

in 2010, benedict xvi gave an address at westminster hall on what he called “the real challenge for democracy”. he told the assembled politi...

Maggie Gallagher

First with the news, aged 14

journalism stuck its fish hook in my heart as a 14-year-old. the royal navy’s task force was steaming towards the falklands and, as it advan...

The Catholic work ethic

i was raised on the glories of the reformation. like all lutherans, each sunday i was further enlightened about catholic wickedness and abou...

Comments of the week

the secret of anglo-catholicism’s success sir – matthew schmitz’s cover story (february 24) is absolutely spot on. faith cannot just be depe...

The Catholic Herald

Fine art: Celebrating the imperfect world of Paolozzi

eduardo paolozzi whitechapel gallery, london, until may 14 it’s great when an artist’s work can be seen by millions of people in their every...

David V Barrett

Theatre: Hillary lookalike brings down Caesar

as the audience arrived at this modern-day production of julius caesar they were greeted with television images of caesar’s conquest of “bar...

Alexander Jolliffe

Pastor Iuventus

my first visit to liverpool afforded me enough time to visit the two cathedrals. i liked “paddy’s wigwam” much more than i expected to. i ca...

Pastor Iuventus

Pictures of the week

1 former ofsted head sir michael wilshaw has been appointed to lead st mary’s university’s school leadership programme. he is pictured with ...

The Catholic Herald

Prize crossword 0480

cryptic across 1 face crisis of mistaken identity in ritualistic killings (10) 6 pirate on hearing bawdy song (7) 7 root for journalist to a...