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When the Old Mass came to Balham

st bede’s has become one of london’s great liturgical churches. the departing parish priest explains how it all began st bede’s church, clap...

The synod is all too respectable

when pope francis was elected five years ago, he announced that he wanted to build a “poor church for the poor”. at the synod on youth takin...

Matthew Schmitz

‘Ireland is led by fools'

john waters’s career in irish journalism lasted for more than 30 highly successful years before he quit what he thinks has become an “ideolo...

Comments of the week

letters should include a genuine postal or email address, phone number and the style or title of the writer. email: letters@catholicherald.c...

The Catholic Herald

The conflict that changed an archbishop’s life

cardinal gerhard müller on how oscar romero became a shepherd, then a martyr revolutionary saint: the theological legacy of oscar romero by ...

Cardinal Gerhard Muller

Prize crossword 0563

cryptic across 7 saudi scam designed to remove one’s middle eastern capital (8) 8 contemptible scoundrel produces a stiletto (4) 9 prompt a-...

Who will draft the youth synod's final report?

12 clerics are charged with writing the final documents

Hannah Brockhaus/CNA

Viganò & Ouellet: What have we learned about the McCarrick case?

Cardinal Ouellet's letter actually seems to partially substantiate some of Viganò’s claims

Letters from the Synod-2018: October 11

Reports and Commentary, from Rome and Elsewhere, on the XV Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops

Xavier Rynne II

Letters from the Synod-2018: October 10

Reports and Commentary, from Rome and Elsewhere, on the XV Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops

Xavier Rynne II