Soul

Unwelcome alteration

there is a folk history of the reformation in england which goes roughly as follows: in the years immediately before the break with rome, th...
Niall Gooch

MacMillan’s Christmas cracker

it’s a brave thing, to compose a christmas oratorio when you’re not bach: the comparisons between his genius and yours are likely to be awkw...
Michael White

Wrapper’s delight

one only has to think of the controversy about doctor who, and the casting of jodie whittaker as the 13th doctor back in 2018, to be reminde...
Serenhedd James

Vatican renews crackdown on Traditional Latin Mass

the vatican has issued further strict guidelines on the celebration of the traditional latin mass in response to questions about the motu pr...
Hannah Brockhaus

Vatican liturgy office issues guidelines for catechist ministry

the vatican’s liturgy office on monday issued a rite and guidelines for the institution of lay catechists in the dioceses of the catholic ch...
Hannah Brockhaus

Attacks on Christians in Europe soar by 70 per cent in a year amid rise in secularist and Islamist ideologies

attacks on christians and church property in europe has soared by 70 per cent in just one year, a new report has said. physical violence, ar...
Simon Caldwell

Pope Francis calls migrant crisis a 'shipwreck of civilization' during refugee camp visit

from a refugee camp on the greek island of lesbos, pope francis decried european indifference to the plight of migrants in the mediterranean...
Courtney Mares

Ecuador’s Church struggles to bring humanity to the country’s prisons after brutal riots

after riots in a guayaquil penitentiary left 119 dead on september 28 and 62 dead on november 12, activists of the local prison pastoral min...
Eduardo Campos Lima

Christmas Issue

leaders a lockdownless christmas eu ruling over abortion harms us all the father’s christmas presence diary  –  lady antonia frase...
The Catholic Herald

Rome is where the heart is

by any standards, the news that michael nazir-ali had been received into the catholic faith is stunning. the former church of england bishop...
Jonathan Petre