Pope Francis

ghana bishops praise new mining policy the bishops’ conference of ghana has praised the government’s crackdown on illegal mining. hundreds o...

Staff Reporter

when china’s last empire, the qing dynasty, ended in 1911, christianity there entered what many scholars call the “golden age” of the missio...

Anthony E Clark

the salesian house of studies has not changed much since it was built on a hong kong hillside in the 1930s. but the city around it has alter...

Megan Griffiths

informed catholics are likely to dismiss the animal rights protesters who stormed a church in italy earlier this year, demanding that the ch...

Carmody Grey

when i get in touch with rosa pich by skype during holy week, i discover that she is on holiday with 12 of her children in torreciudad, a sh...

Jack Valero

i once asked a free-market economist how he would analyse the irish famine, which is sometimes seen as an example of too much free trade: wh...

Mary Kenny

jesus would have agreed with corbyn sir – in his notebook (may 5), stephen daisley of the scottish daily mail dismisses jeremy corbyn’s labo...

The Catholic Herald

fatima mysteries by grzegorz gorny and janusz rosikon, ignatius, £27 fatima mysteries: mary’s message to the modern age is a large and heavy...

Donal Anthony Foley

a christian painter explains his vocation as a teenager i was inspired and helped to pray by a book called prayers of life by fr michel quoi...

Pastor Iuventus

Against the odds, Rosa Pich and her husband, Chema, became the parents of Spain's largest family. Then tragedy struck

Jack Valero