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Letter from the Editor: The Pope of Rome
"do you want an audience with the pope?” asked vatican “fixer” extraordinaire dr peter bahou, owner of new york-based peter’s tours, while w...
William Cash
Bishops in US election battleground state of Iowa call out state and federal lawmakers over immigration crisis
in response to the us immigration crisis the catholic bishops of iowa have taken aim at both state and federal lawmakers. the bishops have c...
johnlavenburg
How Evelyn Waugh’s 'cantankerous' Catholicism clashed with America's literary scene at a dinner party in Florence
the conservative catholic novelist evelyn waugh (1903-1966) paid three visits to harold acton in italy in the 1950s and 1960s. i should...
‘I have called you by name’: the importance of Christian names in a world of gender ideology
names matter. family names matter because they tell a rich history and point to the deep bonds between parents and children. but first names...
BeatriceScudeler
Letters to the Editor: Ideologies increasing exponentially and risk replacing God with individualism
false idols sir – when i was young, my widowed mother would gather her children together for prayers at bedtime. she always included this: “...
Catholic Herald Readers
US bishops criticise new federal regulations for advancing ‘ideological view of sex’
new york – while the biden administration’s recent healthcare-based discrimination regulations don’t include an abortion mandate as the us b...
johnlavenburg
Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati closer to canonisation, reports cardinal
blessed pier giorgio frassati could be declared a saint during the catholic church’s 2025 jubilee year, according to the head of the vatican...
The Catholic Herald
Cradle Catholics forget how easy they have it compared to us Anglican converts
the appointment of fr david waller as the first bishop ordinary of the personal ordinariate of our lady of walsingham represents not only a ...
Matthew Showering
Security checks again find batch of weapons before papal event
rome – less than a month after a man on new york’s most wanted list was arrested in st. peter’s square with three knives ahead of a papal au...
Crux Staff
We should not waste our time on the fleeting love of the world
god has blessed humanity with an unparalleled gift: his saving power, his love. he expressed love first by creating the world and then by cr...
Deacon Hector Ortiz
Catholic education in Ireland: Is it a choice between divestment or falling off a cliff?
catholic education in ireland risks falling off a demographic cliff with the numbers of teachers in catholic schools professing adherence to...
Dualta Roughneen
How every phrase in the explosive Nicene Creed is packed with the power to change lives
easter and creeds go together, for many reasons. not just because the creeds incorporate easter, but also because they only exist because of...
Gavin Ashenden
In Peter’s faltering journey to sainthood there is surely hope for us all
among the many wonderful paradoxes of catholic faith, practice and history is that now-canonised saints did not always act so saintly. from ...
Ken Craycraft
What was Peter saying as the Holy Spirit descended?
"as peter reached the house cornelius went out to meet him, knelt at his feet and prostrated himself. but peter helped him up. ‘stand up,’ h...
Fr David Howell
The beautiful scent of a newborn: Learning to live with the chaos of three small children
“why does he smell so good?” my eldest daughter, ophelia, asked. she and her sister had just arrived at the hospital to meet their new baby ...
Olenka Hamilton
Happily ever after? Secular modernity's irrational discomfort with boy meets girl
last month, the british museum briefly found itself in hot water on twitter/x. some feminists took exception to a jokey post they’d made sug...
Niall Gooch
Congolese Catholics rally round as Cardinal Ambongo accused of 'sedition' in DRC
yaoundé, cameroon – after a prosecutor in the democratic republic of congo announced an investigation of cardinal fridolin ambongo of kinsha...
Ngala Chimton / Crux
A tale of two cities: Wandering through London, from a pagan temple to the Brompton Oratory
i took myself off on a jaunt through london last month, following a favourite route through two cities (the other being westminster) which t...
Serenhedd James
Whoever defends God is defending Man
last july i took my kids on the train to the royal society summer science exhibition which coincided with that year’s pride march. on the wa...
Katherine Bennett
MPs to vote on abortion amendments on May 15, Parliament told
mps will have the opportunity to change the uk’s abortion law on may 15, it was announced in parliament yesterday. amendments to the crimina...
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