Culture

'Don't place limits on pursuit of truth', Pope tells university professors

brussels – pope francis has told university professors in brussels that institutes of higher education must be inclusive amid diversity and ...
Elise Allen

A variable set of Summer performances, from Holst to Britten

the music world likes a decent anniversary, something to focus on. prominent among the anniversaries this year has been the 150th of gustav ...
Michael White

Cardinal Parolin warns European project is neglecting Catholicism to its own detriment

with pope francis now embarked on his trip to luxembourg and belgium, cardinal secretary of state pietro parolin set the stage and alluded t...
Crux Staff

The sister of prayer: Why Catholics shouldn't give up on poetry

one night in september i gave a talk to an audience of one hundred in a parish of saskatoon, canada. the next day i went on to teach eighty ...
SallyRead

Bishops urge Catholics to take action on two-child benefit cap that undermines value of new life

the catholic bishops’ conference of england and wales continues to voice serious concerns about the implications of the current two-child po...
The Catholic Herald

London March for Life showed how both sides can get it wrong and fail the unborn

every year on the first saturday of september, thousands of pro-life people from the uk and beyond participate in the annual march for life ...
EdenMcCourt

'The Dream of Gerontius': Elgar and Newman's epic Catholic work of art

with his assertive gaze, aristocratic bearing and lavish moustache, photographs of sir edward elgar give the impression of the archetypal en...
Alex Hodgkinson

Scandal-struck diocese making 'significant' safeguarding progress, says watchdog

the agency which oversees safeguarding in the catholic church as reported “significant progress” in standards in the diocese of hexham and n...
The Catholic Herald

Bring on the Jubilee of Pizza Makers!

rome – though it was largely frowned out by the verdict on medjugorje released thursday, on the same day the vatican also published an initi...
John L Allen

Confessional Catholics and US public life: Francis X Maier has a journalist’s head and a churchman’s heart

in the united states, opinion polls consistently suggest that to identify as catholic is not a reliable predictor of one’s favoured politica...
Ken Craycraft