Education

Catholic education in Ireland: Is it a choice between divestment or falling off a cliff?

catholic education in ireland risks falling off a demographic cliff with the numbers of teachers in catholic schools professing adherence to...
Dualta Roughneen

In Peter’s faltering journey to sainthood there is surely hope for us all

among the many wonderful paradoxes of catholic faith, practice and history is that now-canonised saints did not always act so saintly. from ...
Ken Craycraft

Staff become Catholics after new programme in schools

an innovative evangelisation programme in the archdiocese of southwark has led to four staff members in catholic schools being received into...
The Catholic Herald

Holy Land Cardinal criticises anti-Israel protests on US university campuses

rome – cardinal pierbattista pizzaballa of jerusalem has criticised the anti-israel protests taking place on college and university campuses...
Elise Allen

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...
Simon Caldwell

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...
Charles Pelham

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...
johnlavenburg

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...
Ben Stephens

‘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