Europe

Synodality and Christian anthropology: Cambridge remembers Nicholas Lash

nicholas lash receives a papal knighthood from bishop alan hopes in 2017 : www.rcdea.org.uk on the evening of 7 november, fisher house in ca...
Ciaron Tobin

Sister Clare Crockett, the beloved 'All or Nothing' Irish nun, up for sainthood

the beatification cause is being opened for sister clare crockett, the young irish nun who turned her back on a promising acting career for ...
The Catholic Herald

The long and faithful history of Our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory, Warwick Street:

the importance of the church of our lady of the assumption and st gregory in the history of catholicism in london over the past three centur...
Monsignor Keith Newton

'The Machine Age': the ideologies and religious influences behind AI

the machine age robert skidelsky penguin, £25, 384 pages robert skidelsky’s the machine age is an ambitious attempt at a timely intervention...
Luka Murphy

The growing power of the Amish vote in US politics

religion has not played a central role in this election campaign. it seems that there are other, more immediate issues—such as the economy, ...
Thomas Edwards

New book questions role of priest in notorious witchcraft trial

a new book on witchcraft has challenged the alleged role of a catholic priest in coaching a teenage girl to accuse her relatives of sorcery ...
Simon Caldwell

Ringing the changes, from Tudor to Stuart

from tudor to stuart: the regime change from elizabeth i to james i by susan doran oxford university press, £30, 646 pages over the last two...
Alexander Faludy

Pope Francis' surprising propagation of an important and traditional devotion

pope francis is full of surprises, and the latest is his encyclical on that sometimes unfashionable aspect of catholic devotion, the sacred ...
The Catholic Herald

Solemnity of All Saints: celebrating those defined by 'blood-stained robes' and what they suffered

"these are the people who have been through the great persecution, and they have washed their robes white again in the blood of the lamb." (...
Fr David Howell

What the Guardian gets wrong about female deacons

a recent guardian editorial attempted to address a perceived issue within catholicism: the absence of female deacons. the editorial lamented...
Thomas Edwards