Features
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Ten amazing Catholics of the year
Monday, December 26th, 2011Mary O’Regan profiles 10 Catholics around the world who showed extraordinary courage, skill and determination during 2011
‘I can see God is working through this’
Friday, December 23rd, 2011
Ed West catches up with Philip Johnson, the US seminarian diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour
Newt Gingrich: America’s next Catholic president?
Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
Michael Brendan Dougherty asks whether there will be a second act to Newt Gingrich’s mind-boggling political career
‘When a child dies that’s really, really rough’
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Madeleine Teahan talks to Fr Michael Shea, a straight-talking American priest caring for the children of Aids sufferers in Thailand
Jon Huntsman was crazy to back evolution
Monday, January 30th, 2012
Dennis Sewell says most US voters reject the theory because of claims that it makes God and Christian morality redundant
We ought to applaud ‘real-life superheroes’
Thursday, January 26th, 2012
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith says that Catholic teaching offers support to the self-styled superheroes fighting crime from Yeovil to Seattle
We’ve felt the joy of coming home
Friday, January 13th, 2012
On the first anniversary of the creation of the personal ordinariate 10 members describe their poignant journey to full communion
More Features
‘My mother was raped but she chose life’
Monday, December 12th, 2011Rory Fitzgerald talks to Ryan Bomberger, the Emmy Award-winning designer highlighting the impact of abortion on black Americans
Church as state
Thursday, December 8th, 2011Mark Steyn argues that big government has become a form of religious belief, says Ed West
Beyond the sound and fury of the culture wars
Friday, December 2nd, 2011A new journal aims to target the heart of what Blessed John Paul II called ‘the culture of death’
The salmon farmer who feeds the world
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011Mark Greaves meets Magnus Macfarlane-Barrow, founder of a charity that provides free meals to half a million children each day
How the new Mass translation will enrich your Advent
Friday, November 25th, 2011Mgr Andrew Wadsworth says this year’s Advent marks a double beginning
The divine illuminated through Leonardo
Monday, November 21st, 2011The National Gallery’s unique assembly of masterpieces may never be seen again
Catholic women need thick skins online
Friday, November 18th, 2011When Caroline Farrow began a blog promoting Church teaching she was staggered by the vitrolic attacks on her by men and women alike
Cameron has left the Church floundering
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011Robin Harris says that the Conservative Party and the Catholic Church in Britain have never enjoyed anything more than fleeting alliances
When Christ lay dying on the battlefield
Friday, November 11th, 2011Nick Dunne visits a humble roadside shrine near the trenches of Passchendaele built to house an extraordinary image of Christ crucified
The German pope who took on the secular world
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011An extract from Eamon Duffy’s new book, Ten Popes Who Shook the World
Comment & Blogs
Morning Catholic must-reads: 03/02/12
By Luke Coppen
Morning Catholic must-reads: 02/02/12
By Luke Coppen
Today's Catholic must-reads: 01/02/12
By Luke Coppen
Dawkins predicts religion’s early death: the Pope warns that ‘in vast areas of the world the faith is in danger of being snuffed out’. But they are saying very different things
By William Oddie
Regrets? Some of those onboard Costa Concordia may have a few. Then again, so should we all
By Francis Phillips
Today's Catholic must-reads: 31/01/12
By Luke Coppen
Seventy years of Desert Island Discs has shown one thing very clearly: it’s never just about the music
By William Oddie
At last I can start to understand the American Civil War
By Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith