Vatican News

Diary: We academics can benefit from Newman's understanding of the heart

diaries are a dizzying technology. they are a subject equally worthy of a sonnet and a philosophical treatise. even the most humble daily re...

The JPII Institute changes have US thinkers up in arms

substantial changes to the faculty and curriculum of the john paul ii institute in rome have alarmed american catholic philosophers. the cha...

Is Britain about to legalise the selling of babies?

culturally, it seems a lifetime ago when the catholic church in britain withdrew from its work in adoption and foster care after finding its...

Pope Francis has the tools to reduce tensions. Will he use them?

if there were a way to convey in a single sentence what is needed amid all the talk of schism, it would be, “everybody calm down: things are...

Christopher R. Altieri

The big story: Amazon synod prompts debate – and prayer

what happened? catholics have taken part in prayer vigils ahead of the controversial amazon synod, asking for the church to be protected fro...

We desperately need a Month of Mission

why has pope francis declared october an extraordinary month of mission? one reason is that he wanted to mark the 100th anniversary of an ap...

The Catholic Herald

Mass readings

ordinary form divine office week ii sunday, september 29 : 26th sunday in ordinary time am 6:1a, 4-7; ps 146; 1 tm 6:11-16; lk 16:19-31 mond...

The Catholic Herald

Inside the Vatican: a fascinating programme for anyone interested in cleaning

the bbc’s inside the vatican relies, we are told in its somewhat breathless publicity, on unprecedented access to the inner workings of the ...

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

Letters: Why is the Church unable to resist radical sex education?

young catholics are turning the tide sir – i am writing in response to your cover story, “class struggle” (september 20). i believe that the...

The Catholic Herald

That sober Baptist Thomas Cook couldn't have imagined today's travellers

it took the collapse of the travel company thomas cook – with the many reports of british tourists stranded abroad, sometimes in dire s...