Comment & Features

Making the most of isolation:

How to find spiritual purpose – and structure – Fr Matthew Pittam

How to find a hobby you love – Charlotte Runcie

Works of Mercy in an age of social distancing – Eve Tushnet

Family life is hard – so lower your expectations – Sofía Abasolo

How to help small businesses – Sophie Caldecott

How to strike a balance in homeschooling – Roy Peachey

Also in the issue:

Editorial: The Church and the plague – and the Catholic Herald – The Catholic Herald

Diary: After 16 years as Catholic Herald editor, I’m wondering how I survived – Luke Coppen

Lenten reflection: The fight of our lives – Fr James Jackson FSSP

If we cannot go to church, the Church can still come to us – Ann Widdecombe

Lent’s long Gospels prepare us to be transformed at Easter – Fr Raymond de Souza

The response to coronavirus proves our elderly are loved after all – Mary Kenny

How plague shaped a great historian – Francis Young

Letters: Now I understand why I had two Aunt Eanswythes

News Analysis

As the world looks to Pope Francis, he chooses to lead by example – Christopher Altieri

Amid the grief, Catholics are already at work supporting the needy – Simon Caldwell

The US Church’s new normal: Drive-through Confession is just the start – Jordan Bloom

What’s the best way to help America’s newly unemployed? – Jordan Bloom

Why my Chinese and Western acquaintances see this crisis differently – Stephen Morgan

Tribalism almost derails a major episcopal appointment – Francis Njuguna

Arts & Books

The trials of a convert novelist – Benjamin Ivry

Sigmund Freud meets Sherlock Holmes – Carl Curtis

English Catholicism and the European experience – Lucy Underwood

A medical memoir takes a turn into the macabre – Matt Thorne

Charles Péguy: a poet trapped between heaven and earth – Benjamin Ivry

Life & Soul

Can we begin again? By ourselves, no – Bishop David McGough

In this time of deprivation, we can recover some precious devotions – Fr John Zuhlsdorf

I’m all for faith and hope – but we need some grief and wailing too – Fr Dominic Allain

How to… Make an act of perfect contrition

Heretic of the week: Henry Drummond – Charles Coulombe

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