Catholic News

The closure of a 500-year-old ironmonger's marks the death of something in our national soul

Gill and Gill traded under 20 monarchs and 76 prime ministers: now we are living in a new and impersonal world

Pope calls for end to killing in Somalia

Pontiff makes plea after rebels massacre 32 people in Mogadishu hotel

World celebrates 100th anniversary of Mother Teresa's birth

Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was born on August 26 1910 in Skopje

The Catholic Herald

Cheshire man helps Ireland win at lacrosse

John Frame from Holy Angels parish, Hale Barns, helped Ireland win the Orange Group at this year’s lacrosse world cup

FSSP parish offers iPhone users chance to view Mass

iPhone app provides text of the Mass that day as well as video

Morning Catholic must-reads: 24/08/10

A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church

Fr Robert Barron on the 'relentless secularism' of Inception

Theologian ponders themes of film starring Leonardo DiCaprio

The Catholic Herald

Prison officers are sceptical that Jon Venables is really repentant for his sins

But even if they believed him, they would still be out for retribution, not rehabilitation

Chaldean bishop tells US: don't leave Iraq in chaos

Bishop Warduni says his country still has no law, no government, and terrorists 'come and go as they please'

Book investigates Benedict XVI's battle against clerical abuse

Gregory Erlandson and Matthew Bunson say Pope has confronted crisis directly

The Catholic Herald