Travel & Pilgrimage

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...

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...

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...

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

Out of the Shadows: walking through the night with St John Henry Newman

oxford - “when we know how many good souls would gladly be catholics if they could,” the wispy white haired oratorian priest spoke softly in...

A Hebridean wander with Kenneth Clark

at school in the late 1970s, practically the only television we were allowed to watch was kenneth clark’s civilisation on sunday afternoons ...

Pope Francis asks Catholics to join prayer for peace in the Holy Land

pope francis thanked god for the cease-fire agreed to in the holy land, adding a prayer “for the pursuit of paths of dialogue and peace.” he...