SPIRITED THINKING SINCE 1888
March 30, 2017
Days after a priest in Mexico is shot dead, another is kidnapped
March 30, 2017
The priest, kidnapped on Tuesday, has now been released unharmed
Sister Lucia of Fatima ‘said Russia’s prophecy was fulfilled’
March 30, 2017
Archbishop of Minsk, Belarus, said she made the remark after learning he was the Catholic Archbishop in Moscow
God weeps for those who stray from him, says Pope Francis
March 30, 2017
During Lent we should seek to return to him with a whole heart, the Pope said in a morning homily
‘The powers of darkness are at war with life’, says pro-life academic suspended by Catholic university
March 30, 2017
The Catholic University of Louvain has initiated 'disciplinary proceedings' against Stéphane Mercier
What’s inside this week’s magazine?
March 30, 2017
Take a look inside this week's Catholic Herald
Why Ireland needs more Rome, not less
March 30, 2017
The Irish Church has lost its fervour, yet retains its fierce independence. But without outside intervention, it will continue to flounder
A year to look backwards
March 30, 2017
The anniversaries of 2017 are a chance to ponder events that profoundly shape the world today
Can Ireland rediscover its faith – as I did?
March 30, 2017
Irish society needs to look truthfully at the past it seems determined to bury. I am hopeful, but not especially optimistic for change in my lifetime
Cardinal Nichols to take four imams to meet the Pope
March 30, 2017
The delegation will meet Vatican officials responsible for interreligious dialogue
Music: Playing the trans debate for laughs
March 30, 2017
Music historians spend much time and effort trying to recapture the original experience of artworks that survive for us only as notes on paper. And among their hardest tasks is to explore what state of mind our ancestors would be in, in order to create an opera such as Handel’s Partenope, which has just returned
Film: The Lost City of Z
March 30, 2017
The true-life figure driving the transporting The Lost City of Z (15, 141 mins, ★★★★★) is Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam), a jobbing British Army serviceman of lowly descent who, while mapping the Bolivia-Peru border in 1906, became distracted by rumours of a mysterious city of gold – the same talk, we note, that lured Conquistadors
Comments of the week
March 30, 2017
Get ready for the next wave of converts SIR – I first had the privilege of meeting the present Bishop of Burnley, the Rt Rev Philip North, 20-odd years ago when he was the very effective Anglican shrine priest at Walsingham. Even then it was obvious that his undoubted skills and spirituality would propel him
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