Europe

Restoring the Catholic grand-dame of New Orleans

in its more than 300 years of existence as a topographically challenged city pummelled by a holy trinity of natural disasters – fire, flood ...
Peter Finney Jr

British Museum's Nero exhibit is 'hair-flattening' take on infamous figure

cover image: publicity for the british museum's  nero: the man behind the myth exhibit, 27 may - 24 october 2021 (image formatted to fi...
Lucien de Guise

Third world war is 'very close', says Pope on visit to Belgium

brussels – pope francis today called for peace, warning politicians in belgium that a third world war was “very close”. in an off-the-cuff r...
Elise Allen

Family and the Domestic Church

in 2007 pope benedict xvi said, “every home is called to become a ‘domestic church’ in which family life is completely centred on the lordsh...
Laura Perrins

Abuse scandals and why I will never abandon the Church

as the catholic herald reported yesterday, catholics face another test of faith as news of another suspected sex abuse scandal involving our...
Laura Perrins

The Virgin praying... for Ukraine

one spring morning in 1987, 12-year-old maria kyzyn, from the village of hrushiv in west ukraine, declared that she had received a vision of...
John Cornwell

Bread of Heaven: The forthcoming transition to John’s Gospel is full of meaning

this being year b of the sunday lectionary cycle, we will mostly be reading through st mark’s gospel; but only mostly, because it is the sho...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP

The empty chair at Easter

it is well known that when someone important dies, significant events, which we normally look forward to with joyful anticipation, become ti...
Olenka Hamilton

Should the Synod on Synodality be ignored?

amid an increasingly leftwards turn by the synodal path in germany , and calls for upending catholic tradition in ireland , is it time to ig...
The Catholic Herald

How Jesus dodged Pharisees’ passive-aggressive trap to reveal how to love both your Lord and neighbour

“‘you shall love the lord your god with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ this is the greatest and first comm...
Fr David Howell