Pope Francis

on trial for reason by maurice a finocchiaro oup, 289pp, £25/$32.95 june 22, 1633, was not the happiest of days for galileo galilei, though ...

Jonathan Wright

next time you are listening to beethoven’s fifth symphony or mahler’s second, imagine what it would have been like to be there for the first...

The Catholic Herald

i recently attended a weekly mass in my parish – to commemorate an important family occasion. my housekeeper came with me. being a big paris...

Quentin de la Bedoyere

the huge and growing devotion to john bradburne is an indicator that the murdered franciscan missionary could well become zimbabwe’s first s...

Simon Caldwell

tensions between rome and the german bishops are high at the moment, with repeated warnings from several high-ranking curial officials and o...

Christopher R. Altieri

buffalo poll: catholics hope bishop malone steps down an opinion poll has found widespread discontent with bishop richard malone of buffalo,...

Staff writers

"the proverbial ill wind that blows no one any good" nigerian bishops on criticism of pope francis ‘from some higher levels of the church’ c...

Staff writers

what happened? the vatican has moved a step closer towards having a new constitution. pope francis’s council of cardinal advisers has b...

Staff writers

william butler yeats (1865-1939) is one of the most celebrated poets in english. and one of the most difficult to talk about in relation to ...

Francis O’Gorman

in the 1940s, a jesuit theologian named henri bouillard proclaimed that a theology that is not “up to date” is a “false theology”. at such a...

C C Pecknold