Catholic News

What Churchill knew about prisons

something interesting is going on in the criminal justice system that i suspect we’re going to hear more and more about. as part of what cou...

Ordinariate gains its first bishop

pope francis has named mgr steven lopes the first bishop of the ordinariate, which serves groups of former anglicans living in full communio...

The best of the Catholic blogosphere

✣   highlights from the week online a good man maligned tim muldoon of aleteia wrote about the film spotlight, based on the story of ho...

The big story of the past seven days

✣  pope hails 'wisdom of the poor' in nairobi what happened? the pope denounced the conditions slum-dwellers had to live in during...

Something rotten at the heart of Belgium

belgium  is a country that should be dear to all of us, historically. the “rape of belgium” moved many hearts to pity at the start of t...

Love in a cruel climate

the street children of manila have been failed by their families and rejected by society – but when pope francis paid a visit, they became o...

Number of Salford parishes to be halved

salford diocese has announced plans to cut the number of parishes from 150 to 75. the proposal was made in a report issued by bishop jo...

Catholic Herald View

Cinema chains reject ‘offensive’ Our Father advert

an advertisement by the church of england that features the lord’s prayer will not be shown in three major cinema chains because of fea...

Catholic Herald View

Damian Thompson: Can a great composer revive a tone-deaf Church?

both the high and the low points of my week were catholic. i experienced the high point watching bbc iplayer on my computer, slumped on the ...

Saint of the week St Vincent de Paul (September 27)

a bright child perhaps no one else in history has done more to serve the poor than st vincent de paul. he is venerated by both the catholic ...