Life

Why capital punishment is not the answer to evil

inflicting harm for harm's sake is anathema to human nature.  we recoil from people who relish causing deliberate but needless pai...
Nicholas Reed Langen

Doing the right thing the wrong way: Schools should ensure the charities partnered with share values

schools should make sure the charities they work with share the same values, says gertrude clarke. this new term is something of a milestone...
Gertrude Clarke

Catholic Herald Good Schools Guide 2023: Introduction

this year, having got more than the all-clear from ofsted, ampleforth is back in the top ten along with two new additions: girls’ school the...
Olenka Hamilton

The Catholic response to protest

piety and prayer may be more effective than demonstrations on the streets. in wareham, dorset, there is an anglican curate, the revd hilary ...
Gavin Ashenden

Sustaining the world's oldest alliance at World Youth Day

on his way to world youth day, tom colsy enjoys the prodigious hospitality of a herald reader in lisbon.  i was walking down the boulev...
Tom Colsy

‘God sent us’: Lebanese nuns find a home in war-torn Iraq

tom westcott reports from karamlesh, near mosul, where the sisters of jesus crucified are supporting a community torn apart by militants. at...
Tom Wescott

Catholic Multi-Academy Trusts run by CEOs are putting our schools in peril

just before covid, the little old lady who lived next door to us sold her 3-bedroom house to a bulgarian couple who had plans to turn it int...
Katherine Bennett

Bishops back Ghana's efforts to resist Western imposition of sexual rights agenda

faith leaders support african nation's right to preserve cultural and religious values in face of threats to international funding, reports ...
The Catholic Herald

Help the youth spread the Word

the holy spirit sometimes works in mysterious ways, but during world youth day in lisbon the fruits of the spirit were manifest in cheerfuln...
The Catholic Herald

Christians in Burkina Faso 'do not know if they will survive another day'

attacks against christians in burkina faso are becoming more common and many people do not know if they will survive for another day, accord...
The Catholic Herald