Europe

Irish teacher sacked by school over use of pronouns for transgender pupil

it was announced on friday that irish schoolteacher, enoch burke, was sacked from his job at wilson hospital school, a private church of ire...
Dubhaltach O Reachtnin

The Christian presence in the Holy Land is under threat

the christians of jerusalem – the city at the centre of the world on medieval maps – are now a tiny fraction of the population, just 10,000 ...
Melanie McDonagh

Lebanon church leader calls for repatriation of 1.5 million Syrian refugees

the leader of the maronite church has appealed to the international community to begin the repatriation of 1.5 million syrian refugees from ...
Simon Caldwell

A splash of Spanish sun at the Royal Academy

there’s something almost secretive about the entrance to the royal academy’s spain and the hispanic world: treasures from the hispanic socie...
Ben Stephens

The Lord Camoys: First Catholic Lord Chamberlain since the Reformation

for those with an eye for english religious history there could scarcely have been a more symbolic gesture than tom stonor’s appointment as ...
The Catholic Herald

The enduring power of the Christian funeral

i have heard it said that every funeral, whatever the scale and whatever the setting, ought to be in some sense a confrontation with death. ...
Niall Gooch

Eyes on the East: Keeping Christmas with the Ukrainian Catholic Church

as the three wise men make their way home in the latin rite, many eastern christians will only just be ending the fast before the nativity. ...
Fr Mark Woodruff

On the Twelfth Day of Christmas: A Prayer to the Three Kings

the end of the christmas octave brings us to epiphany eve: so end our special twelve-days features, which we hope you have enjoyed. for all ...
Evelyn Waugh

World leaders bid farewell to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

viktor orbán was among world leaders to visit st peter’s basilica in rome on tuesday, where he paid his respe cts to pope emeritus benedict ...
Diana Montagna

The Harpole Treasure gives us a glimpse into Anglo-Saxon England’s great women of faith

archaeologists excavating ahead of a housing development at harpole, near northampton, have discovered an astonishing 7th-century burial. ac...
Francis Young