Pope Francis

Home Office to churches: help us settle refugees

the home office has appealed to churches to help integrate refugees, as it tries to meet a target of accepting 20,000 syrians. the full comm...

Knights accept resignation of Grand Master

the governing council of the order of malta accepted the resignation of the former grand master last weekend – despite a “handful” of its 10...

Opus Dei leader: youngsters feel ‘crushed’

the new leader of opus dei has said that he would like to further the prelature’s programmes for young people. mgr fernando ocáriz braña tol...

When politics replaces morality

‘you have a duty to disobey to the ecclesial authorities on temporal matters!” you might assume that the man saying these words, standing in...

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...