Columns

No Jews or Catholics, please, we’re Democrats and have a cynical election campaign to run

while you are going to hear a lot about “weird” during the democratic national convention – as discussed by mark jenkins in an article earli...

Summer reads recommended by the Catholic Herald (Part 2)

here is the second part of the catholic herald 's recommended reads for this summer that have been put together by some of the herald’s frie...

The Catholic Herald

Taking stock of the UK riots: Catholicism and the crisis of Anglo-Celtic identity

anti-immigrant riots in the united kingdom. election hysteria in the united states. both are symptoms of a crisis of anglo-celtic identity, ...

Vatican clarifies stance on patients in vegetative state; stays firm against euthanasia

the vatican’s academy for life has issued a new text on a series of bioethical issues, including the provision of food and hydration for pat...

Harrison Butker remains firm on value of motherhood in face of media pressure

the kansas city chiefs’ star kicker continues to be quizzed by sections of the us media over comments he made earlier this year during a may...

EDITORIAL: It's a reckoning when there is only one seminarian for the whole of Dublin

the maxim that the sins of the fathers are visited on the sons is true in a particularly grim sense in ireland where, in the archdiocese of ...

The Catholic Herald

EDITORIAL: Law and disorder; the Christian response to the UK riots

english bishops have condemned the outbreak of mob violence against asylum seekers and refugees as well as immigrant communities. the bishop...

The Catholic Herald

Refreshingly honest account of Queen Victoria: from foibles and failings to her sense of duty and religious leanings

queen victoria and her prime ministers: a personal history anne somerset william collins, £30, 630 pages for two-thirds of the last two cent...

Fr Mark Vickers

Could Senator Mark Kelly’s Catholic conscience deter him from becoming Kamala Harris' running mate?

arizona senator mark kelly has emerged as one of the leading candidates to be vice president kamala harris’ running mate for the democratic ...

New ‘God’s Gang’ cartoon tries hard to explore interfaith dialogue and relations – but fails

superheroes, evil aliens, trippy plotlines, comic disproportion, a farting planet. the new cartoon series god’s gang has all the trappings o...