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Woolwich heroine says Catholic faith inspired her to confront attackers
Friday, 24 May 2013
Ingrid Loyau-Kennet says: ‘I believe in thinking about others and loving thy neighbour’
Road tolls are immoral, say South African bishops
Thursday, 23 May 2013
Statement reveals opposition to government plans
Pope Francis receives bloodstained relic of Archbishop Romero
Thursday, 23 May 2013
President of El Salvador presents Pope with gift at Vatican meeting
Pope Francis warns of the dangers of ‘unbridled capitalism’
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Pope speaks at 25th anniversary celebration of Vatican women’s shelter
Notre-Dame Cathedral evacuated after suicide
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Historian shot himself in apparent protest at gay marriage

Pope Francis prays for Oklahoma tornado victims
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Pope calls on faithful to join him in prayer
Don’t be afraid to follow the Holy Spirit, Pope says at Pentecost Mass
Monday, 20 May 2013
Holy Father urges faithful to ‘strike out on new paths’
New figures show stark decline in Catholic baptisms, ordinations and marriages
Friday, 17 May 2013
New statistics show marked decline from 1960s
Vatican to host pavilion at Venice Biennale
Thursday, 16 May 2013
Venice debut prompted by Church’s wish to engage with contemporary artists

Print Edition 24.5.13

In this week’s edition of The Catholic Herald Mark Greaves interviews Fr Mark Elliott about his ambitious plans for central London’s Church of Our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory; Megan Hodder writes about her conversion from atheism to Catholicism; Kenneth Francis explains why we shouldn’t trust Dan Brown; Freddy Gray wonders what has happened to British protest; and Jonathan Wright reviews three new books about Pope Francis.

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Features

The atheist orthodoxy that drove me to faith
Thursday, 23 May 2013
Megan Hodder was a young, avid reader of the New Atheists, but her life changed when she read the work of their Catholic foes
‘There’s hunger for mercy in the world’
Thursday, 16 May 2013
Cardinal Seán O’Malley talks to Mary O’Regan about Irish abortion legislation, Pope Francis and his new role as a ‘super cardinal’
‘Being a Catholic Liberal can be difficult’
Tuesday, 14 May 2013
Peter Stanford speaks to Sarah Teather, the MP who defied the coalition on welfare and gay marriage

How Catholics can conquer depression
Thursday, 2 May 2013
An American psychiatrist explains what inspired him to write a guide to the condition specifically for members of the Church
My poignant journey in search of the martyrs
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
When Nancy Bilyeau began writing an historical thriller she got up close to the horror of the Reformation