Life

The Seven Deadly Sins: A noon-day demon with a complicated past

sloth has its origins in acedia, a greek word little used in classical times but, when deployed, usually implying some sort of carelessness ...

Alexander Murray

‘Terrified’ pro-life student group needs police protection from baying mob at Manchester University

a student pro-life group who met at the university of manchester required police intervention due to a hostile crowd of up to 250 people tha...

Missing mission: Where's the Christian heritage at the British Museum?

in defence of the uk’s pre-eminent cultural institution, the theft of 2,000 items shows some vigilance when compared with the bibliothèque n...

Lucien de Guise

Shooting at Sunday Mass in Burkina Faso leaves 15 Catholics dead

yaoundé, cameroon – at least 15 catholics have been killed in a jihadist attack in burkina faso after insurgents opened fire inside a church...

Ngala Chimton / Crux

Clinging on in Ukraine: family, childhood and Catholicism

the country today often seems like the setting of a world war ii film with all the usual paradoxes, as the war enters its third year . cafés...

The beauty and power of music can bring us into the presence of the Divine

a book on sexual passion, which was authored by cardinal fernández of the dicastery for the doctrine of the faith, has recently been redisco...

Ukrainian Catholic community in UK count the costs and kindnesses at two-year anniversary of Russian invasion

in the basement of the ukrainian catholic cathedral in central london is the ukrainian welcome centre that has been serving refugees since t...

Death of Catholic former Dutch prime minister highlights ‘duo euthanasia’ trend in Netherlands

at the start of february both dries van agt, a catholic former dutch prime minister, and his wife chose to die together through euthanasia.&...

The Catholic Herald

Reaction to Fiducia in US has revealed ‘enduring animus’ to ‘LGBT persons’, says key Pope ally

anaheim – one of pope francis’s most vocal allies in the church hierarchy in the united states has criticised the reaction among some cathol...

Pilgrimage standoff: Assisi v. Santiago de Compostela, which comes out on top?

can one commit pilgrimage “adultery”? in the months of planning leading up to taking a group of catholic herald pilgrims along a portion of ...