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John Studzinski receives major Catholic award in New York

January 04, 2024

Investment banker and philanthropist John Studzinski received the Faith & Culture Award from the Catholic New East Welfare Association (CNEWA) at its annual Healing & Hope Gala Dinner. Hosted at a private club in New York City on 5 December, the dinner saw Studzinski presented the award in recognition of his “commitment to promoting the

‘On the eleventh day of Christmas my true love sent to me…Robert Southwell’s poem ‘New Prince, New Pomp’

January 03, 2024

Behold, a silly tender Babe In freezing winter night In homely manger trembling lies, Alas, a piteous sight! The inns are full, no man will yield This little pilgrim bed, But forced he is with silly beasts In crib to shroud his head. Despise him not for lying there, First, what he is inquire; An

‘On the tenth day of Christmas my true love sent to me’…A Wassail Cup for a party

January 02, 2024

Since the celebrations are still going on, the following beverage is drunk as part of the tradition of “wassailing”, an ancient English Yuletide drinking ritual that “has been practised in Britain for centuries”, notes the National Trust. Ingredients can be scaled down to suit numbers: 6 pints brown ale (3.4 litres) 1 lb (450 g)

One of the Herald’s chaplains answers your questions: Tackling religious ‘myths’

January 02, 2024

Our daughter, Felicity, is starting Year 9. She is really good at science and wants to be an engineer. Getting her to Mass hasn’t been easy for a while. Last Sunday she told us she is never going again and refuses to be confirmed. She asked how we could possibly believe in “those religious myths”,

Lockdown lessons must be learned: don’t shut down the Mass

January 01, 2024

One of the most extraordinary aspects of lockdown during Covid was that it entailed the closure of churches. Catholics could not pray in churches even when they were empty because churches were put in the same category as beauty salons, pubs, cinemas and hairdressers as places where social distancing would be difficult. As a result,

Christians in the Holy Land

January 01, 2024

This Christmastide issue of the Catholic Herald is a reminder that, for Christians, the festive season is still festive. Secular society may regard New Year’s Day as the start of a regime of fast and abstinence – or diet and exercise – but it falls during the Twelve Days of Christmas, which means that for

Scattering the ashes

January 01, 2024

Time was when Catholics simply didn’t do cremations, not least because it might complicate matters on the Day of Judgment, when the dead rise up bodily. Yet in countries such as Japan, cremation has long been accepted by the Church. We can rely on the omnipotence of God to reunite our atoms on the Last Day, no

New Year’s Resolutions from Catholic Herald friends and contributors

January 01, 2024

Fr Timothy Radcliffe, OP: My New Year’s resolution is to listen to more music, especially classical music. Beauty has its own authority, offering us “the light we cannot see” as in the marvellous novel by Anthony Doerr. It gives us a glimpse beyond the veil, of the peace and homeland for which we long. Anyway,

Christian villages in south Lebanon empty amid daily exchanges of rocket fire

December 22, 2023

Up to 90 per cent of the population of southern Lebanon’s Christian villages have left their homes since October to seek safety from daily rocket fire exchanged on the Israel-Lebanon border. Since the beginning of the military operation in Gaza, tensions have been rising between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. More than 130

‘Senseless’ attacks in Gaza: Christians shot and killed at Holy Family Church

December 16, 2023

On Saturday the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem issued a statement that confirmed that a member of the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) had shot and killed two Christian women, whom it named as “Nahida” and “Samar”, a mother and daughter, inside the church compound at Holy Family Church, Gaza. Most Christian families in Gaza have been

Police investigate Pope’s surgeon for alleged fabrication of medical records

December 15, 2023

ROME – A surgeon who has twice operated on Pope Francis is under investigation for falsifying hospital records. The Italian daily La Stampa reported that Sergio Alfieri of Rome’s Gemelli Hospital is now facing an investigation at the hands of Roman prosecutors. He is accused of signing forms in 2022 claiming he had performed surgeries

Pope has chosen where he wants to be buried

December 13, 2023

Pope Francis addressed concerns about his health in a recent interview while discussing plans for his own funeral and burial in a different location to the majority of his papal predecessors. After having to cancel a 1 – 3 December trip to Dubai for a United Nations climate summit due to health issues, the Pope

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