Culture

Rowan Williams: Why my favourite book of the bible is the Second Epistle to the Corinthians

st paul’s second letter to the church in corinth is one of the most unusual documents of the ancient world. it displays a painful vulnerabil...
Rowan Williams

Doing the right thing the wrong way: Schools should ensure the charities partnered with share values

schools should make sure the charities they work with share the same values, says gertrude clarke. this new term is something of a milestone...
Gertrude Clarke

Catholic Herald Good Schools Guide 2023: Introduction

this year, having got more than the all-clear from ofsted, ampleforth is back in the top ten along with two new additions: girls’ school the...
Olenka Hamilton

How the Gospel presents the choice offered to us by Christ’s crucifixion

september sees the feast of the exaltation of the cross, and as the newly elected prior (much to my astonishment) and new parish priest of h...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP

Positive parallels between the Commonwealth and the Church

positive parallels between the commonwealth and the church. how do you hold together a large multinational association of highly diverse peo...
Niall Gooch

Sustaining the world's oldest alliance at World Youth Day

on his way to world youth day, tom colsy enjoys the prodigious hospitality of a herald reader in lisbon.  i was walking down the boulev...
Tom Colsy

The rampant anti-Catholicism of the French Left

on the morning of 8 june this year, henri d’anselme heard a commotion in an annecy playground. the 24-year-old frenchman then saw something ...
Gavin Mortimer

‘God sent us’: Lebanese nuns find a home in war-torn Iraq

tom westcott reports from karamlesh, near mosul, where the sisters of jesus crucified are supporting a community torn apart by militants. at...
Tom Wescott

Portugal is facing the new world once again

with its sixth cardinal on the way and a papal visit to lisbon  last month, a new special relationship between portugal  and the v...
William Cash

Mediterranean mission

the holy father is nothing if not peripatetic. three weeks after the papal visit to mongolia, he faces a very different challenge with a vis...
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