Travel & Pilgrimage

Irish-Americans head back to ‘the old sod’

fr michael collins sees pilgrimages to ireland of the descendants of potato famine emigrants. the view from galway out to sea is always...

Father Michael Collins

The Holy Land: Statement of the Patriarchs

the holy land, a place sacred to countless millions around the world, is currently mired in violence and suffering due to the prolonged poli...

The Catholic Herald

The problem with prioritising ecumenism and inter-faith dialogue at the Synod

as more details of the october synod emerge, so does a clearer sense of its priorities. on 30 september the synod will begin with an ecumeni...

Budapest diary: Painful lessons from a city of beauty

it was very late when i arrived in budapest, but a consolation to be in a hotel close to the danube. to me, there is something sacred about ...

Pope Francis welcomed to Mongolia: Chinese Christians make perilous journey

rome – a group of chinese catholics were so thrilled to see the pope close to home that they invented excuses to make the trip to mongolia, ...

How good was Good Queen Bess?

an ex-anglican re-learns history. it is surprising how many things we accept second hand and assume they are true without questioning them. ...

Joseph Roth: Riddles and reinvention

endless flight: the life of joseph roth keiron pim granta, £25, 544 pages it is easiest to imagine joseph roth – the most elegaic writer of ...

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 ...

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

Portugal is facing the new world once again

with its sixth cardinal on the way and a papal visit to lisbon  last month, a new special relationship between portugal  and the v...