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Radio Maria faces closure in Nicaragua after punitive decree from Ortega regime
nicaragua’s radio maria broadcasting station faces closure after its legal status was revoked by the country's dictatorial regime. ...
EduardoCamposLima
Catholics are hardest hit by aggressive absurdities of US presidential politics
it’s going to be a long, hot summer in the united states. heated rhetoric from the two major presidential candidates, their surrogates and p...
Ken Craycraft
'Crushingly poignant': Iraqi crosses damaged by ISIS added to Westminster Cathedral exhibition
three crosses that were damaged when isis islamists seized iraq’s nineveh plains are to be added to an exhibition currently on show in westm...
The Catholic Herald
Boys need dragons to slay – and Catholic life can offer them aplenty
teaching religious studies, and the occasional pshe class, i get the opportunity for insight into pupils’ views about society and morality. ...
Thomas Casemore
Stained glass window dedicated to Blessed Carlo Acutis creating a stir in English parish
st aldhelm’s in malmesbury is proud to be the first parish in england – to the best of its knowledge – to feature a stained glass window ded...
Father Thomas Kulandaisamy
Tending young men’s souls during war: Kharkiv bishop on the need for military chaplains
bishop pavlo honcharuk of the roman catholic diocese of kharkiv-zaporizhzhia has spoken about what it is like for those fighting and living ...
James Jeffrey
New PM appoints culture war ideologues as government Ministers
the uk's new prime minister has appointed as home office minister a woman who has repeatedly used her political office to campaign for abort...
Simon Caldwell
Synod draft surprises by omitting women's ordination, married priests and LGBT
a working document for the final gathering later this year of pope francis’s controversial synod of bishops on synodality makes no clear men...
Elise Allen
Ukraine's patriarch denounces Russian rocket strike on children's hospital
a russian missile attack which hit a kyiv children’s hospital is “a sin that cries to heaven for vengeance”, ukraine's top catholic leader h...
Simon Caldwell
Catholic flavour to traditional Westminster Abbey service with sermon praising Europe's Benedictine tradition
the traditional annual service to celebrate public service at the city of westminster had a distinctly catholic twist this year. cllr robert...
The Catholic Herald
Can new UK Prisons Minister cobble together a plan that actually reflects Christian values?
the announcement that james timpson is the new minister for prisons, probation and parole was one of the few surprises – and one of the...
Andy Keendowns
Evangelical drug lord blamed for four Brazilian parishes inexplicably closing up
four catholic parishes in the northern part of rio de janeiro suddenly announced the suspension of all their activities between 5-7 july ami...
EduardoCamposLima
The movement for the Latin Mass is about far more than nostalgia
the problem with nostalgia, the man said, is that it just isn’t what it used to be. but one man’s nostalgia may be very different from anoth...
James Bogle
Holy Family parish school hit by Israeli military in Gaza
there are reports that the school next to the catholic parish of the holy family in northern gaza has been hit by the israeli military. the ...
James Jeffrey
The ‘scandal' of Jesus is what the wounds of the world need, Pope says
the pope highlighted the “scandal” of jesus during a mass he celebrated to formally close catholic social week that ended on 7 july in the c...
The Catholic Herald
Pope laments ‘health’ of democracy across the world
pope francis has lamented the current state of democratic affairs throughout the world. calling for the fostering of greater inclusion and a...
Elise Allen
'What I saw in America' redux: the Catholic vote across the pond, seen through a British lens
comparing and contrasting the united states with the united kingdom has long been a popular pastime. in 1922 gk chesterton published his hug...
James Somerville-Meikle
Letters to the Editor: Church's gravitational shift reflects its 'old footholds' getting too 'comfortable'
growth and hop e sir – it is true that the church’s traditional centre of gravity is shifting, as john allen noted in the june edition, but ...
Catholic Herald Readers
On Pilgrimage With: Dame Rachel de Souza, Children’s Commissioner for England
where would you go? i would like to walk from loyola to montserrat. loyola is in the basque country – it’s the birthplace of st ignatius. it...
The Catholic Herald
Jesus’s broken hands nailed to Cross show how true strength comes from weakness
"what is this wisdom that has been granted him, and these miracles that are worked through him?" (mark 6:2) our lectionary’s translation of ...
Fr David Howell
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