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Q&A with Ben Horan of Prior Park College

what did you do prior to becoming headmaster of prior park college and how long have you been in the role? i joined prior as head in 2019. b...
The Catholic Herald

Doing the right thing the wrong way: Schools should ensure the charities partnered with share values

schools should make sure the charities they work with share the same values, says gertrude clarke. this new term is something of a milestone...
Gertrude Clarke

How the Gospel presents the choice offered to us by Christ’s crucifixion

september sees the feast of the exaltation of the cross, and as the newly elected prior (much to my astonishment) and new parish priest of h...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP

The Catholic response to protest

piety and prayer may be more effective than demonstrations on the streets. in wareham, dorset, there is an anglican curate, the revd hilary ...
Gavin Ashenden

Angel voices, ever singing: Aquinas would have been fascinated by experiments with photons

in the catholic church there are many reminders of the reality of angels: at the beginning of mass we ask the angels to pray for us; we cry ...
Fr Robert Verrill OP

Positive parallels between the Commonwealth and the Church

positive parallels between the commonwealth and the church. how do you hold together a large multinational association of highly diverse peo...
Niall Gooch

Sustaining the world's oldest alliance at World Youth Day

on his way to world youth day, tom colsy enjoys the prodigious hospitality of a herald reader in lisbon.  i was walking down the boulev...
Tom Colsy

The rampant anti-Catholicism of the French Left

on the morning of 8 june this year, henri d’anselme heard a commotion in an annecy playground. the 24-year-old frenchman then saw something ...
Gavin Mortimer

‘God sent us’: Lebanese nuns find a home in war-torn Iraq

tom westcott reports from karamlesh, near mosul, where the sisters of jesus crucified are supporting a community torn apart by militants. at...
Tom Wescott

Help the youth spread the Word

the holy spirit sometimes works in mysterious ways, but during world youth day in lisbon the fruits of the spirit were manifest in cheerfuln...
The Catholic Herald