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Chicago’s low seminary numbers contrast with Tyler’s vocations record

Scotland abortion numbers highest ever on record

The Pope urges Europe's leaders to address demographic crisis

Archbishop Moth welcomes Magnifica Humanitas

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Reactions to Magnifica Humanitas reveal anxieties of the AI age

The debate surrounding Magnifica Humanitas suggests Pope Leo XIV’s intervention touched something deeper than technology: a crisis concerning authority, freedom and what it means to be human

Punk at 50: freedom, rebellion and the void

SSPX releases names of four priests to be consecrated bishops in July

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Analysis: The Pope urges us to choose a human future

The real message of Magnifica Humanitas

St Philip Neri: Rome’s apostle of joy

Visions of Heaven

Revolutions and revelations

Secrecy and fear in a fallen fellowship

The sober inebriation of Pentecost

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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.

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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

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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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Punk at 50: freedom, rebellion and the void

Truth in an age of confusion

Jacqueline O'Hara

Pope Leo XIV unveils first encyclical with call to ‘disarm’ AI

America’s Declaration and the paradox of unalienable rights

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The real message of Magnifica Humanitas

Pope Leo turns to AI while synodality returns to centre stage

Cardinal Eijk condemns Synod study group report on homosexuality

SSPX tensions, synod fallout and Leo XIV’s delicate balancing act

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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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Can faith still shape America?

Mary Margaret Olohan is joined by former US Senator Rick Santorum to discuss the rise of Catholicism in conservative politics, the culture wars he saw coming decades ago, and the personal faith that shaped it all.

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St Philip Neri: Rome’s apostle of joy

Visions of Heaven

Why Catholics cannot share Communion with Anglicans

The Herald Chaplain

The delightful wisdom of Winnie-the-Pooh

Clement Harrold

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Revolutions and revelations

Returning to one of its most poignant storylines, the final season of Outlander offers an unusually sincere reflection on love, grief, family and faith

Secrecy and fear in a fallen fellowship

The sober inebriation of Pentecost

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

Death in Algiers

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Explore the current issue.

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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