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LeRoy Carhart and how to love your enemy
when the news broke that notorious late-term abortionist leroy carhart was on his death bed, some pro-life christians on social media asked ...
Laura Perrins
Christian women and girls in Burkina Faso wear burqas to avoid attacks from Islamic extremists
christian women and girls in burkina faso need to wear burqas to avoid attacks from islamic extremists, according to a priest in the country...
The Catholic Herald
Pope Francis upholds Catholic ban on contraception
pope francis has sent a message to a natural family planning (nfp) conference in which he upheld the central teachings of humanae vitae, the...
Simon Caldwell
Painful lessons from the Tavistock clinic
medicine deals, by necessity, in the reliable knowledge of a science-based discipline. so why did things go so drastically awry for the tavi...
James Le Fanu
Crowning Our Lady with flowers in May
flowers follow mathematical sequences that make them pleasing to the eye. if you were to ask mathematicians why they are so passionate about...
Fr Robert Verrill OP
The King's coronation oath: an explainer for Catholics
the order of service for the coronation of king charles on saturday is now available online , and a very interesting read it is. the central...
Melanie McDonagh
Karl Lagerfeld’s world was never far from referencing the Church
this year’s met gala, which took place yesterday, chose karl lagerfeld as its theme. although i served a brief apprenticeship in the sartori...
Karl Gustel Warnberg
The complex moral decision about where to send your child to school
one of the ladies in my group of local mother friends recently expressed horror that her five-year-old daughter had been taught a bible stor...
Olenka Hamilton
Why Pope Francis chose Hungary for his speech on 'ideological colonisation'
a year or two ago i speculated about whether pope francis had intended a snub to hungarian prime minister viktor orbán by only visiting...
Niall Gooch
Pope denounces 'colonisation' of gender ideology and abortion on trip to Hungary
pope francis has spoken out strongly against abortion and gender ideology during a visit to hungary, citing both as examples of “ideological...
Shannon Mullen
Irish nuns should be thanked - not demonised
a good news story related to irish catholicism featured across mainstream news outlets this week as 21 cameroonian women travelled to irelan...
Dualta Roughneen
Schism looms over the Anglican Communion - but it isn't going to happen
from last week, the anglican communion exists in two different realities, or perhaps two different dimensions. it may be not unlike the diff...
Gavin Ashenden
Lay people, including women, will participate in Synod on Synodality assembly, Vatican announces
the 2023 synod of bishops will include lay people, half of whom will be women, organisers revealed in a landmark development for the church’...
Hugh Kerr
As fertility rate plummets in Catholic Italy, what hope is left for the West?
over the years i have had four children, so i have been to a lot of playgrounds. i could write a book on the best and worst playgrounds in s...
Laura Perrins
'Careless words cost lives' - reflections on recent statements from the Pontifical Academy for Life
a number of news outlets have picked up the story that archbishop vincenzo paglia, president of the pontifical academy for life, has appeare...
David Albert Jones
DeSantis is right about the death penalty - in some cases it can be morally justified
catholic organisations have called a new florida law that ends the unanimous jury requirement in death penalty sentencing “stunning” and a “...
Laura Perrins
Pontifical Academy for Life president says assisted suicide 'feasible'
the italian archbishop in charge of the pontifical academy of life has said that assisted suicide is “feasible” under certain conditions. ar...
Simon Caldwell
What life is really like for Ukraine's children and youth
(in the cellar of a kyiv kindergarten, children take shelter during an air raid | genya savilov / afp via getty) in my twenty-five years as ...
Jeffrey Wills
Supreme Court extends temporary ruling lifting restrictions on abortion pill
supreme court justice samuel alito issued a ruling wednesday extending the court’s temporary pause on all restrictions on the abortion pill ...
CNA Staff
Pope Francis gives King Charles 'relic of the True cross' as coronation gift
pope francis has given king charles ‘a relic of the true cross’ as a coronation gift. fragments said to be from the cross on which jes...
Olenka Hamilton
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