Travel & Pilgrimage

Pilgrim's diary: the Catholic Herald heads to Fátima

as the harry potter-esque black-caped students that the portuguese city of coimbra is famous for were heading to classes early in the mornin...

The Walsingham Way

joanna bogle reflects on the spiritual potential of a new camino route and its value to people today. people have walked to walsingham for c...

Byrd’s secret music soars

michael white on a clandestine retelling of william byrd’s 16th-century mass settings and a buddhist interpretation of bach’s passions. we h...

IWD: Let us remember St Monica, the original helicopter mother

saint monica was perhaps the ultimate pushy parent and helicopter mother before helicopter mothering became the norm. the difference between...

To have and to hold: the beauty of medieval ivories

sarah guerin helps us understand more deeply the trade and role of medieval devotional ivories, writes emma edwards. a few weeks ago i was f...

Seeing St David: some modern depictions of the patron saint of Wales

there has been a pervasive modern assumption, repeated in many church guide books, that churches dedicated to early saints were a result of ...

On Pilgrimage With: Georgina, Duchess of Norfolk

where would you go?  almost certainly it would have to be to walsingham, medjugorje and fatima. would you make any special stops? absol...

The Catholic Herald

Notebook from Lourdes: the role of Catholic journalists today

three days were set aside for the 26 th  meeting of catholic journalists - the catholic media federation's international day of saint f...

Podcast 34: Steve Ray's Personal Pilgrimage

this week dr gavin ashenden talks to steve ray, the acclaimed american author of crossing the tiber and upon this rock , among other titles,...

The Catholic Herald

The Christian presence in the Holy Land is under threat

the christians of jerusalem – the city at the centre of the world on medieval maps – are now a tiny fraction of the population, just 10,000 ...

Melanie McDonagh