Fr Jerome Bertram, Author at Catholic Herald

Fr Jerome Bertram

For Newman’s canonisation, revisit his profound reflections on faith and reason

October 08, 2019

Confident in their infallible conclusions, Victorian scientists opened an interminable war between science and religion: certainty could only be found through science, religion was no more than whim, inherited prejudice, self-interest. Victorian clergy happily agreed with them. Some urged Luther’s old condemnation of all coherent logical thought in religious matters. “Faith alone” means you are

The true history of celibacy

August 18, 2016

The debate on married priests is damaged by myth-making. History shows that married men, if ordained, had to live continently

The true history of celibacy

August 18, 2016

According to some reports, the next synod may touch on the question of ordaining married men. If we are to have such a debate, it should be based on fact, not fantasy. You will sometimes hear people say that priests could be married up to the 12th century. Others say that celibacy was imposed on

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