Education

Gillian Keegan announces 'landmark decision' to lift faith-based admissions cap on free schools

education secretary gillian keegan has announced plans to lift the notorious faith-based admissions cap on new free schools. following lobby...

The Moral Life with James F Keenan explores subjects such as grief and vulnerability

"the question about our world is not really why so much violence, but why so little? why are we not always at each other’s throats?” in 1997...

Nick Ripatrazone

Where to eat after Mass: Ealing Abbey and Meadow

st benedict’s abbey church in ealing, west london, was begun in the late victorian era and completed in 1934. the monastery that it serves b...

Augustine Institute’s new campus aims to become evangelising 'crossroads' for renewal of Church in US

new york – following the purchase of a sprawling new campus in florissant, missouri, the president of the augustine institute says he envisi...

Mistress of arts: Angelica Kauffman and her noted paintings of stories with female protagonists

angelica kauffman (1741-1807) settled in rome in 1782, having already established herself as one of the 18th century’s best-regarded artists...

‘Momentous’ day for Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham as it gets first Bishop Ordinary

pope francis has accepted the resignation of the right revd mgr keith newton from his pastoral responsibility for the ordinariate of our lad...

The Catholic Herald

Ampleforth diary: by Peter Roberts

when i am out early on theatre square in front of ampleforth’s historic buildings, looking across the beautiful valley on the edge of the no...

A rallying cry to the Church by one of 20th century's great intellectual converts: Elizabeth Anscombe's 1938 letter to the Catholic Herald

in 1938, the catholic herald invited young catholics to give an account of their faith. this is an abridged version of what the young philos...

Elizabeth Anscombe

On matters of life and death it’s time academia started taking its responsibilities seriously

in march, i watched, online, a crowd of 250 students at manchester university held back by the police as a small number of their peers left ...

Young women becoming increasingly irreligious in US

young women are leaving us churches in “unprecedented numbers”, according to a new  survey  from the american enterprise institute...