Pope Francis

The charity world’s free trade U-turn

the universal church has not always been a strong supporter of globalisation and certainly not of free trade. in 1967, for example, pope pau...

Mary Kenny: Luther, warts and all

this is martin luther’s centenary year – he nailed his notorious 95 theses to the church door in wittenberg in 1517 – and the holy father ha...

Comments of the Week

i respect and appreciate catholic schools sir – i would like to make my position clear in response to concerns about my views on catholic sc...

The Catholic Herald

St Dominic’s fight against heresy set to dance

it’s good to talk. and the order of preachers (dominicans) did some good talking together late last month during our 800th jubilee mission c...

Fr Dominic White

Television: Were Bacon’s popes a search for God?

any documentary about francis bacon has a tough job to do in having to match up to that glorious instalment of the south bank show, in which...

Music: Ravishing Rice leaves the audience crushed

the french composer francis poulenc offered two contrasting faces to his audience: on the one hand a committed catholic, on the other a robu...

Omnium Gatherum

as i write i am within sight of the rocky mountains, preparing to preach at masses during a parish’s forty hours’ devotion, also called by t...

Fr John Zuhlsdorf

February 5 to February 11

cardinal nichols (westminster) mon: mass of thanksgiving for the apostolic nuncio, westminster cathedral, victoria street, london, sw1p, 5.3...

The Catholic Herald

'Clarification is gravely needed': international priests' association gives support to dubia

The Confraternities of Catholic Clergy said the dubia would help to clear up confusion

Christian hope is the belief in the reality of heaven, says Pope Francis

The Pope continued his series of messages on hope at this week's general audience