Culture

Musings from Mongolia: Christmas in Ulaanbaatar with Cardinal Marengo's small but growing flock

rome – religion, like politics, is basically local. faith isn’t forged in the hqs of spiritual bureaucracies and their political battles, ho...

There came from the East: Learning of the wisdom of the Magi from Matthew’s account

no nativity play would be complete without the three kings, central characters in the tale of christ’s birth. almost as well known as the ch...

Fr Richard Ounsworth OP

On The Record: listening choices for Epiphany to stir the heart and soul

british composer judith bingham typically uses imaginative and poetic performance directions in her scores. for the anthem “epiphany”, the e...

Alex Hodgkinson

How the Magi found truth in the Messiah, not astrology

looking to the skies. today, astrology is big business. yet despite its popularity, i don’t expect governments to start depicting astrologic...

Fr Robert Verrill OP

John Studzinski receives major Catholic award in New York

investment banker and philanthropist john studzinski received the faith & culture award from the catholic new east welfare association (...

The Catholic Herald

Fijian archbishop echoes Pope's warnings about dehumanising impact of Artificial Intelligence

the catholic church in fiji has called on fijians to be mindful of the potentially negative effects of artificial intelligence. archbishop p...

Culture wars are nothing new: Mince pies were popish abominations to Cromwell’s Puritans

with the christmas period continuing through to early january, might i urge catholics to "hold the line" – to keep their trees and decoratio...

Letter from the Editor: Jeremy Irons, the Cotswolds, charity and Da Vinci

on a chilly night early in december, i attended a wonderful charity dinner at sudeley castle in gloucestershire which raised money for wellc...

Mythmaking online and Marshall McLuhan

nick ripatrazone explores how walter j scheirer’s new book a history of fake things on the internet engages with marshall mcluhan’s ide...

Nick Ripatrazone

Did the King's speech bode well for his faithful subjects in 2024, a year that could prove momentous?

in the spirit of apocalyptic optimism, political pundits are prophesying not so much doom rather a great deal of civic excitement for this n...