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Pope Leo prays with the sick at Lourdes grotto in Vatican gardens

Bishop calls for prayer and penance after Canadian school shooting

Oxford Oratory receives more converts in two months than entire previous year

Backlash grows at New York mayor skipping Archbishop Hicks installation

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Vatican asks SSPX to suspend consecrations and enter theological dialogue

The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has proposed a structured theological dialogue with the Priestly Society of St Pius X, while warning against episcopal consecrations

The toxic war on human fertility

Bishop ordains priest using pre-Vatican II rite, despite Traditionis custodes

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Can my son date an AI chatbot? One of the Herald’s chaplains answers your questions

Catholic Oxford’s quiet revival

Jimmy Lai: a life sentence in all but name

Benedict Rogers

Fasting will save the world

Clement Harrold

Germany’s synodal way set to become a permanent structure

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Iam hora est: on the SSPX announcement of episcopal consecrations

Dom Alcuin Reid

Rapper uses platform to speak out against abortion law

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Gwen John: Strange Beauties

Melanie McDonagh

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Fasting will save the world

Clement Harrold

We live by men’s rhythms, but God gave women their own

God, country and family: the virtues liberalism forgets

Why I would lie to the Nazis at the door

Clement Harrold

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Rapper uses platform to speak out against abortion law

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Ascension and Fr Columba collaborate to create Crux: a Lenten journey of surrender

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Evidence of 400 sex-selective abortions as Britain’s largest abortion provider claims practice not illegal

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We live by men’s rhythms, but God gave women their own

Rediscovering risk: Lessons from the parable of the talents

Declan J. Ganley

Hospitality as a way of life

God, country and family: the virtues liberalism forgets

On the Sermon on the Mount

St Augustine of Hippo

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Can my son date an AI chatbot? One of the Herald’s chaplains answers your questions

As artificial intelligence companions become more sophisticated and emotionally convincing, the Church offers clear teaching on why authentic human relationships cannot be replaced by technology

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Can my son date an AI chatbot? One of the Herald’s chaplains answers your questions

Jimmy Lai: a life sentence in all but name

Benedict Rogers

Fasting will save the world

Clement Harrold

Iam hora est: on the SSPX announcement of episcopal consecrations

Dom Alcuin Reid

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The bishop of television: Fulton Sheen and the road to beatification

Archbishop Fulton Sheen, the pioneering broadcaster known as “The Bishop of Television”, is set to be beatified after decades of growing devotion and recognition of his heroic virtue

The rule of life Christ gave the world

St Thomas Aquinas and TikTok

Fr Gavan Jennings

What Siegfried Sassoon still teaches us about war and conscience

Anthony McCarthy

St Thomas Aquinas is the antidote to a very modern problem

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October/November 2025

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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A Lost Chance for Ireland

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

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All Saints’ Eve

Halloween’s vigil confronts death with Christian hope, not fear or superstition today.

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AI: helping angel or diabolic machine?

Pope Leo’s warnings and hopes for AI, probing dignity, labour, justice, and Church responsibilities for governing algorithms.

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On the limits of liberalism

Sr Camilla and her merry band of nuns

Christianity is a civilising force in a polarised world

Do Catholics make good historians?

Nick Ripatrazone

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