Europe

The Coptic Martyrs

pope francis’s recognition of the 21 killed by daesh as martyrs is a welcome theological and ecumenical development says hugh somerville kna...

Fr Hugh Somerville-Knapman

Breakspear: The English Pope, by RAJ Waddingham

breakspear: the english pope raj waddingham the history press, £25, 304 pages after a few years of any papacy it inevitably happens: people ...

Comedy and the Christian Faith: Appreciating Jesus’s humour gives us a new perspective

one day long ago, in the 1970s, i remember listening to the fusty old lord chancellor, lord hailsham, on radio 4. years later i read a novel...

Why we need to turn to Eucharistic Adoration to find hope

when pope francis announced the jubilee for 2025,  he  said “we must fan the flame of hope that has been given us.” he explai...

Archbishop John Wilson

Samurai Takayama: should he become Japan's first samurai saint, or was he more sinner?

the mysterious vetting process takes at least five years and is one of the catholic church's best kept secrets. but, somewhere in the vatica...

Death and dishonour in the Docklands

housed inside an old georgian sugar warehouse, the museum of london docklands serves as a salutary reminder of the power and ambition of the...

The unshakable Catholic Faith of Ethel Kennedy – through all of it

“introspection, i hate it,” was the watchword of ethel kennedy, the widow of robert f.  kennedy, who spent her life looking forward and...

Four German bishops opt out of controversial ‘Synodal Council’

amid an ongoing back and forth between the vatican and the german bishops conference over a controversial new ecclesial body, four of the na...

View of a century: Cardinal Dolan speaks to the Herald about his good friend Henry Kissinger

few of those present on the dais at the alfred e smith memorial foundation dinner last autumn will forget the sight of the archbishop of new...

Nativity painting of UK 'national importance' becomes High Renaissance ‘Christmas gift’ for Belfast

on hearing in 1929 that his native city of belfast had just built an art gallery but had no paintings to fill it the painter sir john lavery...