Travel & Pilgrimage

On Pilgrimage With: Sir Stephen Hough

where would you go? probably assisi. i know what has become known as “the franciscan spirit” is really a later, softer invention or adaptati...
The Catholic Herald

Seeds of hope in a barren wasteland

the vanishing: faith, loss, and the twilight of christianity in the land of the prophets by janine di giovanni publicaffairs, £22.99, 272 pa...
Gerard Russell

GK Chesterton is still going strong despite the naysaying

this year saw the 150th anniversary of the birth of gilbert keith chesterton in london’s notting hill on 29 may 1874. it has ...
Stuart McCullough

Idealism pitted against boomtown vice

anyone looking for a fully immersive fictional experience to transport them out of a dismal locked-down start to the year and into another w...
Emilie Morrison

What Benedict XVI meant to me and my sisters

i was in our community chapel, just before mass, when i received a message that pope emeritus benedict xvi had died. my immediate reaction w...
Mother Winsome

From the vault: Eire Anois Of Patrick's bell, crozier, goat, penance, hymn and fire

this piece b y terence j. sheehy originally appeared in the 16 march 1973 issue of the catholic herald, and is lightly edited here for clari...
Terence J. Sheehy

Letters: Open the church doors; when people can 'encounter Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament' it can make converts

open the doors sir – when i travel around england, i find it disappointing and upsetting that more often than not the catholic churches in t...
Catholic Herald Readers

Outrunning God: my journey from journalism towards priesthood

if you have come here expecting to read a testimony that recounts extraordinary happenings, then prepare to be disappointed. mine is not a s...
Cronan Yu

The Holy Land: joy of the whole earth

the pointed arch has never previously found the need to abandon the safe shores of england in its search for suitable subject matter. howeve...
Michael Hodges

Nigerian bishop laments continuing insecurity since seminarian's killing a year ago

sokoto, nigeria, feb 15, 2021 / 07:19 pm mt ( cna ) .- one year after the burial of michael nnadi, an 18-year-old nigerian seminarian abduct...
Magdalene Kahiu CNA