Pope Francis

Christina Rossetti brought together theology and ecology

christina rossetti by emma mason oup, 240pp, £30/$39.95 devotional victorian poets understood the particularities of nature as manifestation...

Finzi's choral works: from sorrow to the sublime

melancholy lingers about much of gerald finzi’s oeuvre. the sadness of his early life contributed, as did his later ill health. finzi’s musi...

Francis O’Gorman

How to go on a 'digital retreat'

asceticism has always been a key component of catholic spirituality. following the example of its founder, jesus christ, catholicism has alw...

The Catholic Herald

Some churchmen are embarrassed by their authority. Not Francis

in 1981, john paul ii released familiaris consortio, a document which stated that unless the divorced and remarried abstain from sex, admitt...

Matthew Schmitz

The question no Catholic can avoid

the lutheran pastor and humorist hans fiene recently remarked “the most obnoxious protestants in the world are liberal boomer catholics.” th...

How John Paul II's great encyclical is being erased from history

at the heart of the controversy over the dismantling of the john paul ii institute in rome is the effective sacking of two leading moral the...

Fr Raymond de Souza

The Viganò affair has revealed the depth of the Church's crisis

a year ago, archbishop carlo maria viganò was a retired diplomat who was little known beyond the limited world of vaticanologists. he had re...

What it means to be an American Catholic

what is america? is it a land, molded by geology and industry, and pregnant with legend? is it a people, shaped by a common history and a sh...

Brandon McGinley

Why a parishioner uprising in Portland backfired

the sight of a dozen elderly, white, progressive catholics singing “we shall overcome” as they protested against an african priest who threw...

Catholics can reclaim the territory seized by eco-warriors

the tsunami of fashionable nonsense that has flooded the public domain in the cause of saving the planet has understandably left many cathol...