Pope Francis

The Vatican's guidelines may not be enough to save underground Catholics

last week the vatican made its most important intervention on china since it announced a “provisional agreement” with the communist authorit...
The Catholic Herald

Messiaen's ecstatic music is for everyone

i first heard the music of olivier messiaen when i was a student in the 1980s, recently arrived in london to study theology and philosophy a...
Rachel de Souza

How a Depression-era photographer found her calling

one of the most recognised and reproduced photographic images in the world is the care-worn visage of dorothea lange’s migrant mother (1936)...
Wyeth Burgess

Letters & emails

the meaning of a catholic business sir – christopher altieri, in the cover story of the june 14 edition entitled “the other scandal”, mentio...
The Catholic Herald

Catholics shouldn't be ashamed of our family history

for many catholics, learning church history is considered a mundane and tiresome activity. it is not often a focus of parish catechetical pr...
Steve Weidenkopf

Israel and the Holy See have a unique diplomatic relationship

for significant diplomatic moments – such as the annual address of the holy father to the diplomatic corps – the grand sala regia in the apo...
Fr Raymond de Souza

Street banners, giant candles and the odd cigarette: Corpus Christi in Seville

the crowds surged through the streets of seville, and my second-youngest son and i moved with them. they moved steadily, stopping not only f...
Amy Welborn

Why Mexican Catholicism has lost ground since Trent

in writing a book on mexican christianity, one question has been unavoidable: why has protestantism grown and catholicism declined – especia...
Todd Hartch

Why Augustus Tolton should be America's next patron saint

the church in the united states is suffering. over the past year, american catholics have watched stories unfold on sex abuse, cover-ups, th...
Aaron Benavides

The seminary that saved British Catholicism

as one drives through northern france, it is easy to ignore the signs to douai. it has no cathedral to match amiens, no world-famous gastron...
Fr Nicholas Schofield