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The many parallels between the boxing ring and the spiritual life

martial arts, boxing and the catholic faith seem unlikely bedfellows. once again british heavyweight tyson “gypsy king” fury has retained hi...

Karl Gustel Warnberg

Benedict XVI: how my time as a humanitarian aid worker led me to his writings

in 2008 i returned to ireland after five years working around the world on international humanitarian programmes – in afghanistan, north kor...

Dualta Roughneen

Happy holidays?

tourists: how the british went abroad to find themselves lucy lethbridge bloomsbury, 320pp, £20 dostoyevsky, suffering from constipation in ...

Why do CNN and the New York Times dislike the UK?

why do the new york times and much of the american left have such a beef with britain, and what does this say about the culture wars within ...

The Catholic Herald

Feeding the nation sustainably

as preparations are made to return to school i begin to think of winter stews with barley and log fires, crisp mornings, hot chocolate and a...

Anscombe leads calls for 'Charlie's Law' after death of Archie Battersbee

an internationally-respected catholic bioethics centre has called for urgent reforms of uk law after doctors ended the life of a brain-damag...

A work whose wings are clipped by prejudice

birds and us: a 12,000 year history, from cave art to conservation by tim birkhead viking 2022, £25, 441 pages our relationship with birds h...

No greater nightmare

a ray of hope might be on the horizon for campaigners and parents seeking to challenge the absolute power of the nhs and the courts in decid...

‘Cop26 has to be be a turning point’

thousands of catholics took to the streets of the uk to show their support for policies to halt climate change and reverse ecological degrad...

Senators mark 1st anniversary of declaration rejecting push to declare abortion an ‘international right’

washington d.c., nov 2, 2021 / 05:00 am u.s. senators have celebrated the first anniversary of a declaration affirming that there is “no int...