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July 01, 2023

Last month, Fr Charles Onomhoale Igechi was murdered in Benin, less than a year after his ordination, the latest in a succession of Nigerian Catholics who have been killed by Islamist radicals for their faith: 39 priests were killed in the country last year and a further 30 were abducted. Nigeria is, according to Aid

The skull of St Thomas More is said to be decaying – how much should we care?

June 30, 2023

Montreal-based writer Anna Farrow argues that any deterioration of the major relic ought to be taken very seriously indeed I come from a family of lawyers, more specifically, on my paternal side, Catholic lawyers. Great-grandfather, grandfather, great-uncles; they all practised law in what was then the small town of San Diego in California. My paternal

Catholicism still runs deep in Ireland

June 28, 2023

Earlier this year, the Irish bishops launched a Year of Vocations to the Diocesan Priesthood, a hopeful endeavour given the collapse in vocations in the last couple of decades. As Fr Michael Collins points out in this issue, the national seminary at Maynooth, once home to 500 seminarians, now has 20: men whose vocations have

‘Many lives lost’ as Hindu nationalists attack Christians ahead of election

June 22, 2023

A sustained outbreak of sectarian violence in India’s Manipur state is part of a larger plan “to destabilise interreligious harmony” and raise support for the ruling Hindutva nationalist party, according to local Church sources. Extremists “want to terrorise” Christians and Muslims to try “to win over Hindus” for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) before the

Obituary: The Earl of Perth, 1935-2023

June 05, 2023

A man of great charm and gentle kindness. The Drummond earldom of Perth in the peerage of Scotland was created in 1605, but the most determined genealogist will struggle to trace its subsequent, rather tortuous descent. Matters were complicated by the creation of a Jacobite dukedom in 1701, attainder in 1716, and a tendency for

Obituary: Bishop Christopher Budd 1937-2023

June 03, 2023

A doughty episcopal reformer. Born in Essex on May 27, 1937, Hugh Christopher Budd was educated by the Salesians at Chertsey before entering the junior seminary at Cotton College. From there he progressed to St Thomas’s Seminary, Grove Park, before completing his studies at the Venerable English College in Rome. He was ordained in July

Lunch at the Palazzo Taverna and CNEWA reception

June 03, 2023

Lunch at the Palazzo Taverna On April 19, a luncheon was hosted for the Herald at the Palazzo Taverna on Via di Monte Giordano in Rome by Tom Faure-Romanelli and his wife Ilaria. The guest of honour was Christopher Trott, the British ambassador to the Holy See. Other guests included Amanda Bowman, chair of the

Let’s take to the streets for Corpus Christi

June 01, 2023

This month is the Catholic marching season. Or rather, the season for processions. June sees a succession of lovely summer feasts: Corpus Christi, the great medieval affirmation of the Eucharist; the ancient feast of the Nativity of St John the Baptist (for centuries the only earthly birthday to have its own feast, apart from Christ’s);

The migrant issue and the Church

June 01, 2023

There are few more fraught political issues than migration, given that civil conflict, political unrest and climate change translate into increasing numbers of people forced to flee their homes. The war in Sudan seems likely to result in more refugees seeking to cross the Mediterranean to Europe and to seek asylum in neighbouring countries. Already

What makes a knight (of Malta) today?

June 01, 2023

The Order of Malta has been through a bruising year since, last June, Pope Francis took a close interest in the affairs of the order, demanding reforms and imposing a new constitution to “complete the renewal process”. He named a new leader, ad interim, pending an election, which has just now been confirmed as Grand

The Herald nominated for media awards

June 01, 2023

The Catholic Herald has been shortlisted for two awards at this year’s Professional Publishers Association (PPA) awards, which will be held in London on June 28. Selected for the Editor of the Year and Writer of the Year categories, it is the first time Herald has been nominated at the mainstream PPA awards, which are

Obituary: The Dowager Countess of Swinton, 1935-2023

May 22, 2023

Parliamentarian, Paralympian and campaigner. Better known through her parliamentary work as Baroness Masham of Ilton, the Dowager Countess of Swinton was a distinguished Para-lympian who in the course of three Paralympic Games – in Rome (1960), Tokyo (1964) and Tel Aviv (1968) – won gold, silver and bronze medals in both swimming and table tennis.

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