Holy See

Kidnapped priest pleads for help

indian salesian fr tom uzhunnalil, who was kidnapped in yemen more than a year ago, has pleaded in a video message for the indian government...
Staff writers

China’s Catholics long for new era of healing

when china’s last empire, the qing dynasty, ended in 1911, christianity there entered what many scholars call the “golden age” of the missio...
Anthony E Clark

‘They think I don’t know anything’

the salesian house of studies has not changed much since it was built on a hong kong hillside in the 1930s. but the city around it has alter...
Megan Griffiths

The art of raising 15 children – alone

when i get in touch with rosa pich by skype during holy week, i discover that she is on holiday with 12 of her children in torreciudad, a sh...
Jack Valero

Comments of the week

jesus would have agreed with corbyn sir – in his notebook (may 5), stephen daisley of the scottish daily mail dismisses jeremy corbyn’s labo...
The Catholic Herald

Theatre: Sam Mendes’s IRA drama is a triumph

the moment the royal court announced it was staging jez butterworth’s the ferryman , the whole season sold out and a west end transfer was g...
Robert Tanitch

Pictures of the week

1 more than 900 visitors gathered recently in the abbey church in downside to welcome the national pilgrim virgin statue of our lady of fati...
The Catholic Herald

From storybooks to spirituality

my first love was literature – novels and poetry. as a child, i loved storybooks, mysteries and adventures. in grade school, i was made to m...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser

Meet the Catholic mother raising 15 children alone

Against the odds, Rosa Pich and her husband, Chema, became the parents of Spain's largest family. Then tragedy struck
Jack Valero

Euthanasia 'creates toxic and deadly pathologies' that hurt the weakest, says Cardinal Müller

The Vatican's chief of doctrine urged pro-life Canadians to continue the fight
Catholic News Service