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August 02, 2023
The Herald’s guide to which books to pack when heading off for the summer. Whether they’re packing their passports or just looking forward to some down time at home, here some of the Herald’s regular and not-so-regular contributors share what they’re planning to read this summer – old favourites, new titles and almost everything in
August 01, 2023
This is the month when many of our readers go on holiday – and it seems likely that, given the blistering temperatures predicted in Europe this month, at least some of it will be spent indoors. Even those who spend their summer at home can look forward to more time to read. We suggest that
August 01, 2023
In a flurry of pontifical activity, the Pope has  named 21 new cardinals – one of them Archbishop Fernández, the new head of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith – including 18 who could be eligible to vote in a conclave to elect his successor. It has been estimated that with this new
August 01, 2023
Pope Francis’s appointment of Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández as the new head of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith is one of the most important ways in which he seeks to project his outlook within the Church. The Holy Father has released an interesting letter to explain his approach to this Dicastery –
July 09, 2023
ROME. The Bishop of Hong Kong, Bishop Stephen Chow SJ (pictured), the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa and the former apostolic nuncio to the Court of St James, Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti, are among the eighteen new cardinal electors announced at the Holy Father’s Angelus address this morning in St Peter’s Square. Also among
January 09, 2023
In the first Merely Catholic podcast for 2023, Dr Gavin Ashenden is joined by Monsignor Andrew Burnham to discuss one particular aspect of the legacy of Pope Benedict XVI, who died on New Year’s Eve at the age of 95. In this 31st episode, the former Anglican Bishop of Ebbsfleet pays tribute to the late
January 03, 2023
Pope Francis’s address before the traditional Urbi et Orbi blessing from the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica on Christmas Day 2022 – in case anyone missed it the first time around. Dear brothers and sisters in Rome and throughout the world, Merry Christmas! May the Lord Jesus, born of the Virgin Mary, bring to all
December 31, 2022
Pope Francis, King Charles III and President Joe Biden are among the world leaders who have paid tribute to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who died this morning at the Vatican at the age of 95. Pope Francis “It is with emotion that we remember his person, so noble and so kind. And we feel in our
December 31, 2022
The Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, has issued the following statement on the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. “I am deeply saddened to learn of the death of Pope Benedict. He will be remembered as one of the great theologians of the 20th century. “I remember with particular affection the remarkable Papal Visit
December 31, 2022
Pope Benedict XVI may not have inspired the same affection of some the popes who reigned after Vatican II, but history will judge him as perhaps the most significant, standing beside Anastasius, the fourth-century Bishop of Alexandria, who in the face of the Arian heresy preserved and handed on the truth – and the beauty – of the Catholic faith as it had been received by the Apostles.
December 26, 2022
Priest-holes – those small spaces in old English houses which sheltered mission priests in the dangerous days of the Elizabethan persecutions – have always occupied a place in the imagination of the history of the Catholic Church in England, for many a priest was dragged from them to torture, trial and Tyburn for his part
December 02, 2022
The late Sir Simon Towneley's obituary is given
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