Life

The fallout of the sexual revolution

adam and eve after the pill, revisited mary eberstadt ignatius press, £16, 199 pages in 1867 benjamin disraeli addressed fellow diners at a ...

Georgia L. Gilholy

The unintelligibility of American patriotism

the us devotion to the peoples’ ‘unalienable rights’ is a logical fallacy. in the calendar of american civil religion, july 4 is a solemnity...

Our hope in Mary’s Immaculate Heart

in a time of increasing isolation, conflicts and fragmentation - within society, and within the heart of man –  what does the worl...

Michael de la Bédoyère and growing up with the Catholic Herald

stephen le la bédoyère remembers his father michael, who edited the catholic herald between 1934 and 1962, on the 50th anniversary of his de...

Steve de la Bedoyere

Letter from the Editor: July 2023

one of my favourite articles in this issue, with its irish cover, is stephen de la bédoyère’s elegiac account of growing up when his father,...

U.S. Cardinal McCarrick 'not competent' to stand trial on abuse charges, says mental health expert

former u.s. cardinal theodore mccarrick is not competent to stand trial on criminal sexual abuse charges in massachusetts, a mental health e...

It's time to teach the young that babies are a blessing and not a curse

i’ve just returned from my sons’ sports day. it was hot, there wasn’t much shade, and he didn’t win. good job it’s all about the taking part...

Katherine Bennett

The Catholic case for exploring the Deep

the bad news emerged on thursday. wreckage was found, two miles down in the atlantic ocean, close to the wreck of the titanic , which all bu...

Enter the Digital Cathedral

the digital cathedral is huge; it's a web, it’s  nearly  limitless. in the corner of this digital cathedral is the growing tiktok ...

Annual 'Day for Life' focuses on post-abortion trauma in women

the reflections of a woman who regretted her abortion today forms the key message of the 2023 “day for life” of the catholic church in engla...