Education

New archbishop installed in Boston

new york – with three knocks on the door of the cathedral of the holy cross just after 1.30pm yesterday, archbishop richard henning began hi...
John Lavenburg

Lighten up about 'religious' concerns over Halloween: young children love ghouls and ghosties

as i write, with the weather on the turn and summer lapsing away like grief, as emily dickinson put it, there are daily consolatory inspecti...
Flora Watkins

Britain to get another Catholic medical school at London's St Mary’s University

st mary’s university has announced plans to open a new school of medicine on its strawberry hill campus in twickenham, london. the anno...
The Catholic Herald

Opposing cardinal and archbishop make World Series wager to benefit Catholic schools

the stakes for the 2024 world series between the los angeles dodgers and the new york yankees now include an unexpected wager by the two sen...
The Catholic Herald

Religious sisters shelter hundreds fleeing fighting in Lebanon

religious sisters in war-torn lebanon have transformed their convent into a refuge for more than 800 people fleeing the ongoing bombardment,...
Amy Balog

Dawkins vs Peterson, a clash which fell short of a meeting of minds

this confrontation between two professors had been a long time coming. it represented nothing less than a war between civilisations. but the...
Gavin Ashenden

A blessing and a curse? The legacy of the Catholic public school in England

educating in faith: a history of the english catholic public school mark cleary, sacristy press, 256 pages, £19.99 the cover of mark cleary’...
Serenhedd James

One eye on the Emerald Isle: The grass seems greener on the other side of the Irish Sea

after cromwell’s conquest of ireland, according to our host, those irish catholics not executed for taking part in the 1641 rebellion were e...
Flora Watkins

Britain’s cathedral choirs and choral legacy endangered by VAT on private schools

the recently announced plans of the uk government to apply vat to private schools could pose a direct threat to the future of cathedral choi...
Thomas Edwards

Geoffrey Chaucer falls foul of ‘expressions of Christian faith’ at top UK university

it has been revealed that a so-called trigger warning has been applied to geoffrey chaucer’s the canterbury tales  by a leading uk univ...
The Catholic Herald