Pope Francis

Galileo is not the atheists’ posterboy

in our generation the myth that faith and science are incompatible – meaning that no intelligent person should believe in god – has been pus...

The American playwright Christopher Durang may help us understand

the news that the american catholic playwright christopher durang has been diagnosed with aphasia and is retiring from theatrical activity m...

Patrick Kavanagh: Poet in the twilight

‘every old man i see / in october-coloured weather / seems to say to me: ‘i was once your father’.” wake forest university press – as part o...

Nick Ripatrazone

Religion and the Rise of Sport in England, by Hugh McLeod

religion and the rise of sport in england hugh mcleod oxford university press, £30, 304 pages a visitor from 200 years ago, landing in engla...

Dr Mark Chapman

What does Pope Francis really think about homosexuality and sin?

there was a flurry of correspondence between the tireless lgbtq+ activist fr james martin and pope francis on saturday 27   january.&nb...

Holiness is the antidote to evil in the Church

there may be few greater hindrances to believing in god and loving his church than the offence caused by clerical sexual abuse.   the l...

Pope Francis condemns ‘ideological’ and ‘elitist’ German Synodal Way

in an interview published yesterday, pope francis condemned the german synodal way as elitist, unhelpful and running the risk of bringing id...

Olenka Hamilton

The West must mobilise to help Armenian Christians blockaded in Azerbaijan

pope francis has expressed concern about the potential for a humanitarian catastrophe in the caucasus. some 120,000 armenian christians, res...

Pope curses 'delinquent' priests who withhold absolution

priests should grant absolution in the confessional even when the penitent has no intention to repent, the pope has said in a speech which h...

The ordeal of Cardinal Pell: an interview

this article originally appeared in the december 2021 issue of the catholic herald.  within a few minutes of meeting cardinal pell...