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What the Church must do in Venezuela
With United States military intervention leaving Venezuela in a precarious position, the Catholic Church may once again be called upon to fill a moral and institutional vacuum
Niwa Limbu
The Coptic Church: A model for Catholic–Orthodox dialogue
As Catholics look toward renewed engagement with the Orthodox Churches, the long and often fruitful dialogue with the Coptic Church shows how ancient divisions can be approached without denying history or doctrine
Jan Bentz
The Catholic Henry Manning at 175: greatness, grief, and a misunderstood conversion
One hundred and seventy-five years after his reception into the Catholic Church, Henry Manning remains one of the most formidable and most maligned figures of Victorian religious life
Mark McGinness
Can animals have Catholic funerals? One of the Herald’s chaplains answers your questions
Our chaplain answers your question: why does the Church not offer funeral rites for pets?
Chaplain
Crowds at Papal audiences are back, but the deeper question remains
Attendance at Vatican events rose sharply in 2025 after years of decline, but numerical recovery alone cannot answer deeper questions about doctrinal clarity and ecclesial confidence
Niwa Limbu
Archbishop Laterza was right about feminism
Archbishop Laterza caused a media storm with his comments about freedom, but for Catholics they should come as no shock
Niwa Limbu
What to watch at Pope Leo’s first extraordinary consistory
Joseph Shaw assesses what Pope Leo’s first Extraordinary Consistory will reveal about the balance between tradition and progress in the new pontificate
Joseph Shaw
What Pope Leo’s Lebanon remarks failed to capture
The Pope praised Lebanon’s coexistence. Yet behind the pastoral language lies the fragile reality of a Christian presence struggling to survive
Thomas Colsy
Review: Pornocracy by Jo Bartosch and Robert Jessel
A new book by Jo Bartosch and Robert Jessel exposes the scale, cruelty, and moral consequences of pornography, and raises uncomfortable questions about freedom, consent, and human dignity
Georgia L. Gilholy
The cardinals’ consistory: Will the Church heal her liturgical wounds?
Dom Alcuin Reid considers the pastoral damage done by recent restrictions on the traditional liturgy and the possibility of a more generous settlement under Pope Leo
Dom Alcuin Reid
Deepfake pornography and my experience of digital violation
When AI systems generate pornographic deepfakes without consent, the damage is not artificial. For Samantha Smith, the Grok scandal exposes how pornography has reshaped our understanding of human dignity
Samantha Smith
Stranger Things: a villain worthy of better heroes
The final season of Stranger Things delivers a villain of rare moral and symbolic depth, but ultimately denies its heroes the sacrificial weight needed to match him
Daniel Turner
With or without Vatican approval, the SSPX may consecrate bishops
The Superior General of the SSPX has said the Church is now in a deeper state of emergency than in 1988
Niwa Limbu
First person charged under UK abortion buffer zone law after silent prayer
A Catholic pro-life campaigner has been charged for allegedly breaching new national buffer zone restrictions by praying silently outside an abortion clinic
The Catholic Herald
When Europe’s churches burn
The destruction of the Vondelkerk stands as a sign of Europe’s diminishing confidence in the inheritance it once laboured to preserve
Niwa Limbu
Reclaiming Christmas through Twelfth Night
A secular Christmas starts in Advent and finishes early. David Hahn writes that Catholics should reclaim the feast by celebrating it in its entirety
David Hahn
Loving yourself, the Catholic way
Self-love is part of Catholic teaching, but its motivation is diametrically opposed to secular selfishness
Delphine Chui
Placing God at the centre of Catholic business leadership
Fides Entrepreneurship brings together young Catholic business leaders to explore how faith can guide success, ownership and responsibility in modern economic life
Thomas Edwards
Kidnapped Nigerian schoolchildren released, but abductions remain a national crisis
A mass kidnapping at a Catholic school has ended with the release of all captives
The Catholic Herald
What to expect from the extraordinary consistory
What can be expected from Pope Leo XIV’s first extraordinary consistory, and what it may reveal about the direction and tone of the new pontificate
The Catholic Herald
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