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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This week’s edition of The Catholic Herald features an extract from On Heaven and Earth in which the future Pope Francis and Rabbi Abraham Skorka discuss prayer; Paul McGregor meets Fr Ho Lung, the ‘ghetto priest’ who founded the Missionaries of the Poor in Jamaica; Sophie Caldecott hails a new Catholic magazine for women; and Ed West says it’s not un-Christian to be worried about immigration.

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This week Mary O’Regan talks to Cardinal Seán O’Malley of Boston about the huge pressure on Ireland to legislate for abortion; Peter Stanford meets Sarah Teather, the Lib Dem MP who rebelled over same-sex marriage; Lord Deben spends Easter at a monastery on top of a mountain; Joanna Bogle argues that a century after Fatima, the Christian faith is flourishing in Russia; and Tim Stanley says Ukip’s election shock reveals the return of a voter once thought extinct: the social conservative.

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This week’s issue of The Catholic Herald features psychiatrist Aaron Kheriaty explains how Catholics can conquer depression; Ed West meets the Welsh geneticist seeking to ‘retell the Bible as science’; John Hinton on Benedict XVI’s love of comic creation Don Camillo; Melanie McDonagh assesses Honest to God by then Bishop of Woolwich, John Robinson, 50 years after its publication; and Robert Tanitch reviews the Donmar Warehouse’s revival of The Weir.

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This week’s issue of The Catholic Herald features Domenico Bettinelli on a harrowing week in Boston; Francis Phillips meets Catholic broadcaster Michael Coren; Jon M Sweeney discusses his book on Celestine V, the Pope who abdicated 700 years ago; Benedetta Guarracino on the glory of London’s Italian parish; Mary Kenny reviews Conrad Black’s biography; and Freddy Gray on ‘The New New Atheism’.

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This week’s issue of The Catholic Herald features a tribute to Baroness Thatcher by Sir Rocco Forte; Jonathan Wright explores how Jesuits have reacted to the election of Pope Francis; Patrick West looks at why so many priests fall in love with football; Lord Alton says the best way to deal with North Korea is through engagement; Nancy Bileau on her historical novels The Chair and The Crown; and David Bereit speaks about his pro-life campaign, 40 Days for Life.

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This week’s issue of The Catholic Herald features an archive interview with Margaret Thatcher from 1978; Therese Coffey MP argues Margaret Thatcher’s life was inspired by her faith; Paolo Gambi reports on the pop star who is descending on the Vatican; Daniel Kalder lists the greatest Catholic films of all time; Stuart Reid explores the life and legacy of Fleet Street legend, Michael Wharton; Clare Ward interviews Fr Timothy Radcliffe ahead of the Word of the Lord conference; and Fr David Vincent Meconi says that having a Jesuit Pope is reason to celebrate.

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This week’s issue of The Catholic Herald includes a free 20-page Easter magazine featuring Archbishop George Stack of Cardiff on the power of Passion plays, Fr Michael Seed on the Resurrection and Fr Tim Gardner on the sacramental qualities of the hot cross bun. In the main paper Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster offers an Easter reflection; Mark Greaves discovers a theatre production inspired by the Stations of the Cross and performed by inmates at Feltham Young Offenders’ Institution; Jonathan Wright says Pope Francis and the new Archbishop of Canterbury must not be afraid to argue with one another; and John Hill meets Mulatu Tafeese, an Ethiopian Catholic helping victims of rape in Addis Ababa.

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This week’s 24-page issue of The Catholic Herald features in-depth coverage of the first week of Pope Francis’s pontificate. Chris Bain gives his eyewitness account of the moment Pope Francis was revealed to the world; Piers Paul Read considers why the Pope rejected Liberation Theology; Miguel Cullen explores Francis’s cultural tastes, which include a love of Edith Piaf; Fr Mark Drew calls on Catholics to follow the Pontiff’s example and leave behind partisanship; and Freddy Gray says the media just doesn’t understand the new Pope.

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