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Stop just blaming mobile phones for children’s despair: Parents bringing up children without God isn’t helping either
April 10, 2024
Concerns and platitudes about mental health is all the rage for children these days. Over the years, with my three older children at school, I have seen offers of yoga (which is not exactly in keeping with Catholic teaching), therapy dogs, counsellors, assemblies on mindfulness, well-being week, “all-about-me” posters and much more.  Granted, some of
INTERVIEW: Bishop-elect of Clifton talks about marriage, parenting in a secular world, the pressures faced by priests and much more, including the Church’s greatest asset
April 09, 2024
Pope Francis appointed Rev. Canon Bosco MacDonald as the tenth Bishop of Clifton on 14 March 2024. It followed the Pope on the same day accepting the resignation of the Right Reverend Declan Lang as Bishop of the Diocese of Clifton, one of 22 dioceses in England and Wales.  The Catholic Herald subsequently spoke to Clifton’s new bishop-elect on
Catholic participation in UK General Election set to be extremely high due to issues at stake
April 09, 2024
Participation by Catholics in the UK’s next General Election is likely to be particularly high, according to the Catholic Union of Great Britain. A survey of the Catholic Union’s members and supporters found that just over 90 per cent of responders were planning to vote in the upcoming General Election. The figure is significantly higher than
The Temple Mount encapsulates the tragedy of religious conflict today
April 09, 2024
Easter is a good time to reflect on what the Temple Mount means for the three Abrahamic faiths, especially in the wake of the 7 October attack by Hamas on Israel and all that has come to pass since. While holy to so many different religious believers, the Temple Mount in Jerusalem has also long
Vatican’s new declaration praised for transcending liberal and conservative perspectives to tackle ‘modern misconceptions’ on human dignity 
April 09, 2024
Many liberals and conservatives appear to be both applauding or denouncing the Vatican’s latest doctrinal document on human dignity for its stance on particular issues. But Catholic moral theologians instead highlight the consistency with which the issues are addressed, and the adherence to Church teaching exhibited. “The [list of issues] demolishes any kind of attempt
Helping young people flourish in the age of the ‘social media trap’: rediscovering the lost ‘art of association’
April 08, 2024
In hindsight the Covid pandemic was the world’s most extensive experiment to settle a centuries-old question that has befuddled scientists and philosophers alike – despite the guidance offered by the Church. The apparent riddle for such lofty minds is whether human beings are primarily individuals who just enter society out of selfish needs, or are
Vatican condemns ‘gender theory’ in new doctrinal document
April 08, 2024
The Vatican has condemned gender ideology in a document published 8 April. The new Declaration Dignitas Infinita on Human Dignity from the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF), offers a clear definition of human dignity as the Church sees it and stresses the need to uphold it from conception to natural death.
Nifty Shades of Grey: Great Flemish Drawings at the Ashmolean Museum
April 08, 2024
The Ashmolean Museum at Oxford has set itself something of a challenge with its latest exhibition, but rises to it magnificently. Bruegel to Rubens: Great Flemish Drawings draws on the museum’s own spectacular Old Masters collection, which are usually housed in the relatively humble Western Art Print Room. This is the first time it has
Let them finally have a Christian burial: Captain Robert Nairac and last of the ‘Disappeared’ from Northern Ireland’s Troubles
April 08, 2024
Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh has reiterated his ongoing call for action to finally retrieve the remains of Northern Ireland’s last few “Disappeared”: four men killed by the IRA during the Troubles, whose bodies have never been found. The Catholic Church in Northern Ireland recalls these men each year at a special Mass, which is
How doubting Thomas can inspire those of us who endure a ‘traumatised faith’
April 08, 2024
“Unless I see the holes that the nails made in his hands and can put my finger into the holes they made, and unless I can put my hand into his side, I refuse to believe.” (John 20:25) Our lectionary’s translation of this verse from the Gospel of the second Sunday of Easter removes an
A Father’s Heart: Sometimes Catholic schools need reminding about being Catholic…
April 07, 2024
One of the Herald’s chaplains answers your questions We were delighted when our son Tom was offered a place at our local Catholic academy school. It is over-subscribed, with an excellent academic reputation. However, we are surprised that it seems far less Catholic than his primary school. Mass and prayers don’t seem to feature. Tom
Pilgrimage Standoff: Assisi or Santiago de Compostela – it’s a tough call
April 07, 2024
Can a person commit pilgrimage “adultery”? In all the planning leading up to taking a group of Catholic Herald pilgrims along a portion of the Via di Francesco – the Way of St Francis – to Assisi in Italy, I felt a strange sense of unease about being engaged in a form of betrayal. For
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