Catholic Herald View: Pope Francis’s plain speaking is perfect for our age
On the flight to Rio, Pope Francis walked down to the press section to give a few cursory remarks to journalists. “It’s true I don’t give interviews,” he said, explaining his decision to break with...
View ArticleIn just six months Pope Francis has shaken up the world
On the flight back from Rio, Pope Francis offered a modest assessment of his papacy so far. “It’s true,” he said, “that I haven’t done very much.” In a sense, he’s right: many of the problems...
View ArticleCatholic Herald View: Five reasons to give thanks for our new papal saints
In the days before a major canonisation we reach a situation that might justly be called Peak Polemic. The global media spits out articles suggesting that the candidate is unworthy of canonisation, the...
View ArticleCatholic Herald View: Pope Francis’s Holy Land visit will be his greatest...
When Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras arrived in the Holy Land in 1964 for his historic meeting with Paul VI, a reporter asked him: “Why have you come to Jerusalem?” Athenagoras replied: “To say ‘good...
View ArticleCatholic Herald view: Francis showed power of the personal touch in Holy Land
Nothing illustrates the power of personal relationships to overcome divisions better than the image of Pope Francis, Rabbi Abraham Skorka and Islamic leader Omar Abboud embracing in front of the...
View ArticleCatholic Herald View: We are witnessing a great betrayal of Iraqi Christians
When is silence a shrewd political strategy and when is it simply cowardice? That is the question we must ask this week as western leaders remain silent as the faithful are driven out of Mosul by...
View ArticleCatholics have no reason to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation
Report: Protestants try to calm row ahead of Luther celebration Plans by German Catholics and Lutherans to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017 have hit the rocks. Catholics are...
View ArticleCatholic Herald View: A just war: we must act to protect Iraq’s minorities
The Holy See is usually hostile to American military intervention in the Middle East. Not this week. Archbishop Giorgio Lingua, Apostolic Nuncio to Iraq, told Vatican Radio that American strikes are...
View ArticleCatholic Herald View: Pope Francis has created an extraordinary opening for...
It is always unnerving to hear a pope speak about his own mortality. When Francis told journalists on his flight home from South Korea yesterday that he expected his papacy to “last a short time, two...
View ArticleCatholic Herald view: Pope Francis is leading us beyond the Kasper debate
Back in May the Pope lamented that many observers – and “even Church people” – had misunderstood why he had called a synod on the family. They saw it as the “synod on Communion for the remarried” and...
View ArticleCatholic Herald view: The synod has a long way to go before it truly realises...
The mid-term report issued by the family synod on Monday is a peculiar sort of Vatican document. The 5,500-word text describes itself as “the fruit of the synodal dialogue” that took place last week....
View ArticleCatholic Herald View: It’s too early to write off the synod as a failure
Most media coverage of the family synod has relied on an implicit sporting metaphor: there were two clear sides, the Progressives and the Conservatives, captained by Cardinal Walter Kasper and Cardinal...
View ArticleInside this week’s Catholic Herald
Here is a handy guide to the brilliant articles, arguments and reviews to be found within the covers of this week’s Catholic Herald – the magazine is available to buy from tomorrow. Cover story… Simon...
View ArticleInside this week’s Catholic Herald
Here is a handy guide to the brilliant articles, arguments and reviews to be found within the covers of this week’s Catholic Herald – the magazine is available to buy from tomorrow. Cover story… Lela...
View ArticleInside this week’s Catholic Herald
Cover story… In this week’s cover story, Madeleine Teahan says luvvies should bow out of the assisted suicide debate following the recent celebrity take over Also online and in print… Ettore Gotti...
View ArticleWhat’s inside this week’s Catholic Herald?
This week Tim Stanley asks if the Vatican really wants a Catholic in the White House? More comment… Fr Dwight Longenecker commits a faux pas on a pilgrimage to Norfolk Fr Raymond D’Souza wonders why...
View ArticleWhat’s inside this week’s magazine?
This week Dominic Selwood explores what Catholicism will look like in 100 years More comment… Andrew M Brown names the novel every European Catholic should read Emma Loosley explains why ISIS has...
View ArticleWhat’s inside this week’s magazine?
Cover story… Madeleine Teahan says Britain is just days away from crossing a moral Rubicon More comment… Stephen White on the hiring and firing of Americans in the Vatican Fr Raymond de Souza...
View ArticlePodcast: What’s really happening at the family synod?
After a dramatic week at the family synod, our associate editor Madeleine Teahan talks to Fr Mark Drew about the week’s events and why they matter. What is the significance of the leaked letter...
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