Comment & Features

Why does God allow disasters? The astonishing reason is love – Peter Kreeft

How does good come out of evil? And other questions about providence – William Newton

‘My faith brought it upon me’: The pandemic and the love of neighbour – The Catholic Herald

My post-crisis resolutions: Worry less – and don’t underestimate vegans – Madeleine Teahan

The Triduum gains a new meaning in this year of deprivation – Fr Raymond de Souza

Receiving the Last Rites is a fundamental right – Bishop Philip Egan

Wise statesmanship or economic folly? Two writers debate the lockdown – Helen Andrews and Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

‘Nightingale’ is a fitting name for London’s pandemic hospital – Mary Kenny

The last lockdown: 13th-century England’s six years without Mass – Francis Young

Letters: Let’s organise collections for our priests

News Analysis

Italy and the UK: two approaches to closing churches – Christopher Altieri

The Last Rites continue. Other sacraments? It’s complicated – Simon Caldwell

Doctors’ new ‘Frailty Scale’ is alarming disability campaigners – Simon Caldwell

A Catholic Democrat in Texas: Meet Senator Eddie Lucio – James Jeffrey

What will happen to the persecuted – and those who have fled from danger? – David Alton

Arts & Books

Piety and savagery: Boccaccio’s stories of an epidemic – Anthony Esolen

ZeroZeroZero: A film greater than the sum of its name – Carl Curtis

Wodehouse, Herriot and travel literature: The best books for lockdown – Niall Gooch

How the philosophy of ‘I’ took over – Simon Caldwell

Self-belief is not enough to make the most of old age – Thelma Lovell

Life & Soul

How the Easter liturgy brings us comfort in these times – Bishop David McGough

This Easter can be full of graces for us all – Fr John Zuhlsdorf

What’s changed in my 20 years writing for the Catholic Herald – Fr Dominic Allain

Heretic of the week: John Wilson – Charles Coulombe

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