Travel & Pilgrimage

Happy holidays?

tourists: how the british went abroad to find themselves lucy lethbridge bloomsbury, 320pp, £20 dostoyevsky, suffering from constipation in ...

Raise a glass to GK Chesterton

this year marks the centenary of gk chesterton’s reception into the catholic church. it had been anticipated by some of his most catholic wr...

The Catholic Herald

Diary: the Knights Hospitaller, the Holy Land, and the miracle of birth

i recently returned from a pilgrimage with the british association of the order of malta to the holy land. our visits to the holy places rem...

Mgr John Armitage

Walsingham rector appointed new Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark

(photo credit: marcin mazur) pope francis has appointed the rector of the marian shrine at walsingham as a new auxiliary bishop of southwark...

The clear Catholic overtones in Bob Dylan's most recent work suggest he may have joined the Church

karl gustel warnberg travels to bournemouth to watch bob dylan live in concert ever since his debut as a young musician, bob dylan has been ...

Karl Gustel Warnberg

Confessions of an ex-LGBT activist

it was an awkward moment. “fr” colin had led the lgbt activist movement in the church of england for decades. every general synod he would b...

Cardinal Tagle sets out his vision for the Church

filipino cleric, cardinal luis antonio tagle, who was named by pope francis as his special envoy for the general conference of the federatio...

Finding truthful witness in fictional saints

the saints from the great novels can help us grow in our faith, writes ken craycraft one of my daughters, margaret, recently finished sigrid...

Pope extends Synod on Synodality to 2024

pope francis has announced that the synod on synodality will be extended to 2024. speaking in his angelus address on sunday, the pope shared...

Trouble ahead? The Irish Synodal Pathway leads to Rome

it is more than likely that the catholic church’s synod in rome – called by pope francis and set to take place in october – is going to end ...