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Church bombed during clashes in Burma

a catholic church has been bombed in the conflict-torn northern shan state as renewed fighting intensified between the burmese military and ...

Seminaries urged to teach climate change

the nurturing of holy, healthy and humble priests requires prayers for vocations and the careful selection and training of candidates, the c...

Catholic of the Year: The cheerful shepherd

on the website of the diocese of portsmouth, there is a video of bishop philip egan delivering his october 2016 pastoral letter on the futur...

The Catholic Herald

What Newman really stood for

i wrote the book newman on vatican ii for two reasons. first, i hoped to settle once and for all the question that always hangs around newma...

The Beeb must atone for its Pius slur

the bbc is not the most self-critical of organisations but lord alton of liverpool and fr leo chamberlain of ampleforth have actually prevai...

The inside story of the St Mary’s revival

when the board of the largest catholic university in britain tried to recruit francis campbell as its vice-chancellor in 2013, he was intent...

Comments of the Week

we need to pray for president-elect trump sir – the issue of abortion and the right to life of unborn children right across the western worl...

The Catholic Herald

The brilliant biblical metaphor in Arrival

like et, close encounters of the third kind, starman, independence day and a host of similar films over the past 30 years, arrival explores ...

Bishop Robert Barron

Briefly noted

at home in the mysteries of christ by jim mcmanus cssr. (redemptorist publications, £7.95) . fr mcmanus, a redemptorist priest, has written ...

Omnium Gatherum

on december 17 we enter the final stage of joyfully penitential preparation for the lord’s manifold advents. st bernard (d 1153) preached in...

Fr John Zuhlsdorf