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✣   highlights from the week online a towering leader in an ‘age of giants’ on the feast day of st john paul ii last saturday, one cont...

Pope’s friend: critics of Francis love Putin

the opponents of pope francis have indirect links to vladimir putin, according to a writer who has been called the pope’s “favourite journal...

Iraqi Christians rejoice but await Mosul’s fall

christians from qaraqosh, south of mosul in iraq, are celebrating after their village was liberated from isis last week, as pope francis den...

‘Follow Mary and punch the Devil’

mary should be our model for a religion that fights for the truth even when it is unpopular, archbishop charles chaput of philadelphia said ...

The friendships that history forgot

the first time i attended a service in a catholic church i was 19 years old, and it was the funeral of our friend, the artist kieran mcgoran...

Jenny McCartney

Get thee from the nunnery

“i do not owe you obedience and i will not obey you ... i am in a good, pious, blessed, honourable, free, spiritual estate, wherein both my ...

Luther’s accidental revolution

the devil apparently went out of his way to pester and distract martin luther. he would throw nuts at the ceiling and make casks tumble down...

Jonathan Wright

Mary Kenny: The feminist who wanted to be a man

that fascinating feminist – she might call herself “post-feminist” – and academic, camille paglia, was in london last weekend, and she spoke...

Comments of the Week

the media ignores us in the ‘buffer zone’ debate sir – we are writing to express our deep distress at the current campaign to introduce buff...

The Catholic Herald

Prize Crossword 0463

cryptic across 1 address where oriental lives in edom alternatively (4) 3 king’s in high peak, lost without a key (8) 9 store next to railwa...