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Activist goes from Burmese prison to priesthood

a human rights activist who was jailed for more than a year in burma has been ordained as a catholic priest. fr james mawdsley was freed in ...

Pope: ‘Do not equate Islam with violence’

speaking to journalists on his return flight from kraków on sunday, pope francis said that violence exists in all religions including cathol...

The best of the Catholic blogosphere

✣   highlights from the week online crisis for the jesuits despite reports that the jesuit pope has sparked a growth in jesuit membersh...

The big story of the past seven days

✣   islam isn’t a violent religion, says pope after priest’s murder what happened? speaking to journalists on his return flight from wo...

Did Fr Hamel die a martyr’s death?

if we know fr jacques hamel is a martyr, we should be praying to him. if we don’t, then we should be praying for him. these are the very pra...

Defending the common good

paris. san bernardino. brussels. nice. istanbul. rouen. the pace of terrorist attacks linked to isis has accelerated over the past two years...

Music: A life-changing triumph in Yorkshire

when ts eliot drew together his sequence of reflections on humanity and time under the title four quartets, it was with reason. structurally...

When Catholics knew how to tell a story

a blue whale made its stately way around the stage, and a pair of desperate dodos arrived too late for the ark. the arches of york minster r...

Obituary: Gerard Noel, an editor who loved mystery and mischief

gerard noel, who has died aged 89, was one of the most distinguished editors in the history of catholic herald, a historian of immense range...

The Catholic Herald

The peril of having too much fear

‘the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” said franklin d roosevelt facing the economic crisis of 1933. he went on to describe it as ...

Quentin de la Bedoyere