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'Gold Mass' for scientists to be celebrated for the first time

Organisers of the Mass at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology hope the tradition will spread

Christine M Williams

The big story of the past seven days

✣   papal appointment shakes up us church what happened? indianapolis archbishop joseph tobin was included in a batch of new cardinals ...

Prisons face an ‘urgent crisis’, says cardinal

cardinal vincent nichols has said that britain’s prisons are facing an “urgent crisis” – but that the government’s efforts at reform are “a ...

Council blocks Christian couple from adopting

a couple have been barred from adopting their foster children because of their “concerning” views about same-sex parenting. the couple decid...

Lebanon settles on new Catholic president

cardinal bechara rai, patriarch of maronite catholics, has welcomed the election of a new lebanese president, which ended a two-and-a-half-y...

Albania returns to the fold

for the catholics of albania, the past year has been remarkable. in december 2015 came the news of the death of archbishop rrok mirdita of t...

Fr Stewart Foster

Mary Kenny: What we forget about ‘forced adoptions’

apologising for past wrongs or misjudgments is always a little tricky – particularly if the apologiser wasn’t actually responsible for the e...

Comments of the Week

catholics ought to stand up for our legal system sir – as catholics, we should be concerned about the standard of our public debate. we shou...

The Catholic Herald

My prayer for Mel Gibson’s Resurrection film

he is risen indeed. i’m talking about mel gibson, who after a rather public mid-life crisis (he calls it his “andropause”) and a long stint ...

Leonie Caldecott

Omnium Gatherum

this week holy church celebrates st gertrude the great (d circa 1302). there are many great saints, but not many saint “greats”. in their sp...

Fr John Zuhlsdorf