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Andrew M Brown: Gripping music for the easily bored

i thought subjecting two children, aged 10 and 11, to a whole evening of handel might be a strain, that they would be bored and fidgety (per...

Comments of the Week

now that’s what i call a proper pilgrimage sir – if jonathan wright (feature, july 22) is seeking a real penitential pilgrimage with no sigh...

The Catholic Herald

Music: Mozart opera comes dripping with slime

one of the less canonic mozart operas, idomeneo is a piece that stage directors tend to feel they have a licence to maul. and it was mauled ...

God has 'accompanied' Poland often in its history, says Pope Francis

Francis marks the 1,050th anniversary of Poland's baptism with half a million pilgrims

Junno Arocho Esteves

Full text: Pope Francis's homily during Mass at Czestochowa

The Mass marked the 1,050th anniversary of Poland's baptism

Pope makes surprise visit to ill cardinal on way to shrine

Francis visited and prayed for 89-year-old Cardinal Macharski

Associated Press

Pope Francis calls on Poles to show compassion to migrants

Francis has arrived in Poland at the start of World Youth Day 2016

Junno Arocho Esteves

Former Catholic Herald editor Gerard Noel dies aged 89

He was the only person ever to have edited the publication twice

Catholics praised for coming to the aid of slaves held at sea

The Catholic Church has been commended by a US official over its response to caring for the needs of fishermen kept as slaves