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UK Parliament abortion vote on 15 May: ‘A time to raise our voices and not lose heart’

bishops rarely comment on bills in parliament. lay christians, informed by their faith, freely and sincerely adopt different political views...
Bishop Mark Davies

'On This Holy Island: A Modern Pilgrimage Across Britain' leaves you yearning for more religious commitment

on this holy island: a modern pilgrimage across britain by oliver smith bloomsbury continuum, £20, 256 pages a book about pilgrimage should ...
James Jeffrey

What does it mean if we are 'kept' in the name of the Father?

"holy father, keep those you have given me true to your name, so that they may be one like us. while i was with them, i kept those you had g...
Fr David Howell

Douai Abbey: a place extolling the English Benedictine temper and charism

"a monastery is above all this: a place of spiritual power.” pope benedict, as ever, got to the heart of the thing when he addressed these w...
Gertrude Clarke

An exorcist is needed to sort out Eurovision 2024 and Ireland's troubled contestant

myopia has plagued my family as far back as can be traced. the family vault holds images from the end of the 1800s of women in their fo...
Katherine Bennett

Lisbon: Why you should visit this critical trading and spiritual link between Old Catholic Europe, Asia and the New World

with five portuguese cardinals, and at least one future papabile – cardinal américo aguiar, who was responsible for world youth day 2023, is...
William Cash

Napa Institute in London, April 2024

working together with the herald to strengthen catholic mission . the napa institute, which seeks to further the mission of the church in th...
The Catholic Herald

Letters to the Editor: Ideologies increasing exponentially and risk replacing God with individualism

false idols sir – when i was young, my widowed mother would gather her children together for prayers at bedtime. she always included this: “...
Catholic Herald Readers

In Peter’s faltering journey to sainthood there is surely hope for us all

among the many wonderful paradoxes of catholic faith, practice and history is that now-canonised saints did not always act so saintly. from ...
Ken Craycraft

What was Peter saying as the Holy Spirit descended?

"as peter reached the house cornelius went out to meet him, knelt at his feet and prostrated himself. but peter helped him up. ‘stand up,’ h...
Fr David Howell