
On the first anniversary of the creation of the personal ordinariate 10 members describe their poignant journey to full communion

Mary O’Regan profiles 10 Catholics around the world who showed extraordinary courage, skill and determination during 2011

Ed West catches up with Philip Johnson, the US seminarian diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour

Marie Collins explains to Madeleine Teahan what she will say at an unprecedented gathering of bishops in Rome this week

Madeleine Teahan talks to Fr Michael Shea, a straight-talking American priest caring for the children of Aids sufferers in Thailand

Dennis Sewell says most US voters reject the theory because of claims that it makes God and Christian morality redundant

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith says that Catholic teaching offers support to the self-styled superheroes fighting crime from Yeovil to Seattle
Thursday, August 18th, 2011Paul Goodman asks if the Church’s social conservatism is at odds with David Cameron’s model of conservatism
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011Mother Bernardine Goulter survived the atomic bomb at Nagasaki. Here we publish her account
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011Fr Christopher Jamison OSB says it is better to plan a happy death rather than trying to feel good all the time
Thursday, July 28th, 2011Frank Duff’s biographer Finola Kennedy tells Jack Carrigan why the founder of the Legion of Mary was way ahead of his time
Friday, July 22nd, 2011Mark Greaves travels to Italy to witness the astonishing skills involved in the creation of the new Missal that will stand on Britain’s altars
Monday, July 18th, 2011Charles Moore tells Luke Coppen why he has agreed to become a patron of a new group supporting members of the ordinariate
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011Angelo Stagnaro visits the resting place of Blessed Bartolo Longo, the turbulent occultist who become a champion of the rosary
Monday, July 4th, 2011Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith says Catholics should think carefully before having cosmetic surgery
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011Mary Craig writes about her second son Paul, diagnosed with ‘gargoylism’, in an extract from The Death of a Child
Monday, June 20th, 2011Ed West talks to a Catholic who prayed the rosary 35,000 times while running across America, dodging wild animals on the way
Comment & Blogs
Today's Catholic must-reads: 08/02/12
By Luke Coppen
Dickens is disappointingly thin - give me AN Wilson anytime
By Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
If a woman is a priest, she can also be a bishop: if she’s not, she can’t. Either way, there is now only one way out for Catholic Anglicans: it’s over the Tiber
By William Oddie
More than any monarch, Queen Elizabeth II understands the spiritual element of her coronation oath
By Francis Phillips
Despite reports of violence, I feel totally safe walking around Mexico
By Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Morning Catholic must-reads: 07/02/12
By Luke Coppen
Is the ‘anthropogenic global warming’ consensus on the point of collapse? If so, this is just the right time for Chris Huhne to leave the Government
By William Oddie
Smacking laws are unworkable products of Left-wing middle class diktat
By Francis Phillips