Europe

Friends reunited

four things came to mind when a neighbour’s ceramic bird-feeder shot past my study window before disintegrating with a crash against the gar...
Serenhedd James

Pain and suffering in God’s broken world

"if you believe in a loving god, why do babies die of leukemia?” i’d never engaged seriously before with the question, but when faced with h...
Mark Dowd

The risen Christ in the four Gospels

when we think about easter, and particularly about the appearances of the post-resurrection christ, we are almost certainly going to be thin...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP

Pray for peace in Ukraine

the pope could hardly be clearer about how he sees the war in ukraine. speaking in the vatican at the height of the russian attacks on mariu...
The Catholic Herald

Exhibition review: The World of Stonehenge

there is a certain apophatic quality to  the world of stonehenge  at the british museum, which is defined by the absence at its ce...
Serenhedd James

Pope visits Ukrainian refugee children in Rome hospital

pope francis has made a surprise visit to ukrainian refugee children being treated in the bambino gesù children's hospital in rome. the chil...
Courtney Mares

Ghosts of Poland's past

in school in poland, i was taught about two world wars on the european continent. i never imagined that in the 21st century, i would be...
Ksawery Danilowicz

A year after Pope Francis's historic visit, Iraq's Christians face new threats

there can't be many priests who celebrate mass in an empty church. but the archbishop of mosul, mgr najeeb michaeel, has little choice. most...
John Cookson

“Never in our history have a million people entered Poland in just 10 days"

a tale of good people with a lump in his throat, the exhausted ukrainian president says at a press conference: "i don't know who could be do...
Marcin Wiklo

Ukraine: "This is outrageous. It is outrageous before Almighty God, it is outrageous before the world."

the lord god says this: ‘my plans for you are for peace, not for disaster; to give you a future, a future filled with hope.’ ‘my plans for y...
Archbishop John Wilson