SPIRITED THINKING SINCE 1888
July 21, 2016
Director appeals for funds to revive long-forgotten Catholic opera
July 21, 2016
A company is seeking to bring The Lost Sheep, a tale of adultery and redemption, to London for the first time
Like the Fatima visionaries, we should meditate on hell
July 21, 2016
Reflecting on the horrors of hell can help us to avoid ending up there
Pope Francis marries young deaf couple at chapel in his own residence
July 21, 2016
The Pope last presided over a wedding two years ago
The martyrs of Communism are the modern equivalents of St Perpetua
July 21, 2016
The author of a new study of Communist persecution tells me why these stories must be kept alive
Word This Week
July 21, 2016
The Seventeenth Sunday of the Year: Gen 18:20-32; Col 2:12-14; Lk 11:1-13 (year c)
England’s lovable Christian warrior king
July 21, 2016
Review: Athelstan by Tom Holland
Film: An appetite for hard drugs and soft jazz
July 21, 2016
Born to Be Blue stays true to its subject – a musician who conjured great beauty no matter how lost he was
Francis has an excellent chance to heal his rift with followers of St John Paul II
July 21, 2016
The rift, which began with the joint canonisation of John Paul II and John XXIII, is rarely spoken about in public
Liberal Catholicism’s unexpected crisis
July 21, 2016
You might think that progressives would be rejoicing under the current pontificate. Instead, they are fretting about the future
What’s inside this week’s magazine?
July 21, 2016
Take a look inside this week's Catholic Herald
A turning point in the Amoris debate
July 21, 2016
In the three months since its publication, the Pope’s exhortation Amoris Laetitia has been described as brilliant, erroneous, confusing, groundbreaking and unremarkable. It has opened up divisions – but what is at the heart of the divisions may be something deeper than the usual to-and-fro of Church politics. Last week, a group of Catholic theologians
Healing a rift in the City of Mercy?
July 21, 2016
Kraków When Pope Francis arrives here next week for World Youth Day, will he come as his predecessors did – Benedict XVI to honour John Paul II, and John Paul in turn to honour Paul VI? If he does not do so, he will further widen the rift with Catholics who are devoted to the
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