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German bishops criticised for appointing priest linked to gay seminary scandal to abuse advisory board

Pope Leo ends Francis-era curia appointment

Abbey of La Trappe, mother house of the Trappist Order, considering closure in 2028

Premier League’s Ben Doak shares Catholic faith, crediting St Michael for keeping away “all evil”

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The Iran conflict and the Church’s criteria for a just war

The Church’s just war tradition offers a framework for judging the legitimacy of military action amid the turmoil following the strikes on Iran

Fr Gavan Jennings

Dissent and double standards at ‘Where Peter Is’

The triumph of sentimentality in the Church of England

Fr Dwight Longenecker

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The return of silence in an age of noise

As a gay man, can I date for emotional companionship? One of the Herald chaplains answers your questions

The theology of being a godparent

Clement Harrold

Why Catholics should claim Adam Smith

Conscience and catastrophe in the Thirty Years’ War

Francis Phillips

Staging faith and folly: three choral works

Choosing to be present

On the woman at the well

St John Chrysostom

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The return of silence in an age of noise

The theology of being a godparent

Clement Harrold

Women’s magazines are narrowing the space for dissent

Five lessons on Catholic fatherhood I learned from my Dad

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Diplomatic tensions and doctrinal tests in Leo’s first Lent

Signs of dialogue in a pivotal week for the Vatican

Is Cardinal Fernández the real source of tensions in the SSPX and Vatican standoff?

Schwarzenegger and Confession, and more returns to papal customs

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The return of silence in an age of noise

Choosing to be present

Women’s magazines are narrowing the space for dissent

Encouraging one another in dark times

Seven children is a small family

How Netflix is reshaping children’s moral imagination

Daisy-Mae Inglese

The return of Catholic clubland in London

The Catholic case for working from home

Portia Berry-Kilby

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As a gay man, can I date for emotional companionship? One of the Herald chaplains answers your questions

A reader asks whether there is a place for him in the Church as a single man experiencing same-sex attraction, and how he might live out intimacy and companionship in fidelity to Catholic teaching

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As a gay man, can I date for emotional companionship? One of the Herald chaplains answers your questions

On the woman at the well

St John Chrysostom

The boundary between Original Innocence and Redemption

Pope St John Paul II

Is giving up alcohol for Lent enough? One of the Herald chaplains answers your question

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Conscience and catastrophe in the Thirty Years’ War

A powerful German novel explores how the fraught relationship between faith and political power sowed the seeds of disaster

Francis Phillips

Staging faith and folly: three choral works

Perceiving God in creation: the angel-filled world of Francis Thompson

Contextualising the Great Seige

Reason, doubt and grace in Why I Am Not an Atheist

Nick Ripatrazone

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Pope Leo: A Bridge-Builder

In his first months, Leo XIV looks like a listener: he calls synodality an attitude of openness, maintains Church teaching on marriage and sexuality, and signals cautious openness to broader Latin Mass celebration. The aim is less polarisation, deeper dialogue, a bridge builder who consults widely and will lead decisively.

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Elites blocked Maria Steen’s candidacy, narrowing democracy and silencing Catholic conservatives’ voices.

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