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Vatican selects Isaiah prophecy for 2026 creation day

Pope Leo XIV establishes foundation for Vatican solar project

Hawaii will send abortion pills “just in case”

Bishop describes atheist anthem as the “most beautiful song in the world”

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Two cheers for Stoicism

Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations contain profound moral insights that often resonate with Christian teaching, yet Stoicism ultimately cannot answer the deepest questions about suffering, grace and eternal hope

Clement Harrold

Lola Salem on… the erosion of taste

Can Ireland be Catholic again?

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EWTN’s president Alvarado appointed to head Vatican communications

Monastery of Saint-Benoît call for prayer and fasting over SSPX consecrations

Saturday Read: The Chinese prime minister who became a Benedictine monk

In pictures: Archbishop of Westminster celebrates Vespers at the London Oratory

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Can faith still shape America?

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Pope Leo calls for liturgical reform faithful to tradition

Toronto Catholics urge cardinal to intervene over SSPX consecrations

Reactions to Magnifica Humanitas reveal anxieties of the AI age

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Pentecost 2026

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How I discovered the Latin Mass

Eduard Habsburg

Eduard Habsburg on a Traditional Latin Mass that turned reluctant prejudice into a profound encounter with silence, order and prayer.

Features

Speaking in tongues: it’s not what you think

Philip Blosser

Why Paul's 'tongues' meant something far simpler

Leo’s first year: through the eyes of the cardinals

Michael Haynes

The cardinals weigh Leo XIV's first twelve months

Can Syria’s Christians survive under al-Sharaa?

John Pontifex

Syria's Christians, a fragile hope under al-Sharaa

Columns

The fire that remakes

In Yeats's bee-loud glade

Declan J Ganley

The Christian duty to be less informed

America’s Declaration and the paradox of unalienable rights

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Two cheers for Stoicism

Clement Harrold

Lola Salem on… the erosion of taste

The human cost of Colorado’s abortion regime

Jacqueline O'Hara

How the monasteries made Britain

Vatican DISPATCH

EWTN’s president Alvarado appointed to head Vatican communications

The Copts, the SSPX, and what everyone missed about Leo this week

The real message of Magnifica Humanitas

Pope Leo turns to AI while synodality returns to centre stage

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Lola Salem on the domestic Upper Room

The dangers of performative faith

Courage in the age of cancel culture

Why you should go on retreat

Have we made wellness a new religion?

Why Catholics need to build a more attractive culture

Why imperfect family prayer may be the most honest kind

Beyond eros: recovering the fuller meaning of love

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EWTN’s president Alvarado appointed to head Vatican communications

Pope Leo XIV has appointed EWTN president Maria Montserrat Alvarado as prefect of the Dicastery for Communication, marking a significant shift in the Vatican’s public-facing leadership

SOUL

St Boniface: the Englishman who became the Apostle of Germany

Dear Father: Should eulogies be permitted at funeral Masses?

The Herald Chaplain

Martyrs, suffering and the bread of life

St Philip Neri: Rome’s apostle of joy

Culture

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Lola Salem on… the erosion of taste

The collapse of criticism as a rigorous practice has left contemporary culture increasingly unable to recognise or cultivate excellence

Revolutions and revelations

Secrecy and fear in a fallen fellowship

The sober inebriation of Pentecost

Why sacred music belongs in the liturgy, not the concert hall

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current issue

Pentecost 2026

The Catholic Herald — Pentecost 2026 cover (Issue 6665)

How I discovered the Latin Mass

Eduard Habsburg on a Traditional Latin Mass that turned reluctant prejudice into a profound encounter with silence, order and prayer.

Features

Speaking in tongues: it’s not what you think

Why Paul's 'tongues' meant something far simpler

Leo’s first year: through the eyes of the cardinals

The cardinals weigh Leo XIV's first twelve months

Can Syria’s Christians survive under al-Sharaa?

Syria's Christians, a fragile hope under al-Sharaa

Columns

The fire that remakes

In Yeats's bee-loud glade

Declan J Ganley

The Christian duty to be less informed

America’s Declaration and the paradox of unalienable rights

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