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St Vincent’s School for the visually impaired: Seeing things differently

john patterson introduces the important work of st vincent’s school for the visually impaired in liverpool. the holy father calls on us to r...

Gathering up the fragments: responses to faith and leftovers

at the feeding of the five thousand, jesus miraculously transformed five loaves and two fish into so much food that – even after the huge cr...

Dr Eleanor Barnett

Marijuana harms everyone, warn North Dakota bishops

north dakota’s catholic bishops are urging catholics to vote "no" on a state ballot proposal that would legalise marijuana for recreational ...

Breakspear: The English Pope, by RAJ Waddingham

breakspear: the english pope raj waddingham the history press, £25, 304 pages after a few years of any papacy it inevitably happens: people ...

Video: 'Are you praying for unborn children?' police ask Catholic woman

a police officer has interrogated a woman outside an abortion clinic for silent prayer, saying, “are you praying for the lives of unborn chi...

The Catholic Herald

Samurai Takayama: should he become Japan's first samurai saint, or was he more sinner?

the mysterious vetting process takes at least five years and is one of the catholic church's best kept secrets. but, somewhere in the vatica...

On Pilgrimage With: Anita Boniface, writer and chaplaincy volunteer

where would you go? a place i’d like to revisit on pilgrimage is aylesford priory in kent. i often went there as a child and young adult wit...

The Catholic Herald

Death and dishonour in the Docklands

housed inside an old georgian sugar warehouse, the museum of london docklands serves as a salutary reminder of the power and ambition of the...

The unshakable Catholic Faith of Ethel Kennedy – through all of it

“introspection, i hate it,” was the watchword of ethel kennedy, the widow of robert f.  kennedy, who spent her life looking forward and...

The violent absurdities of American presidential politics

it’s going to be a long, hot summer in the united states. heated rhetoric from the two major presidential candidates, their surrogates and p...