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Why are Anglican Clergy becoming Catholics?
A third of recent ordinations to the Catholic priesthood have been made up by former Anglican clergy. Fr Michael Nazir-Ali explains why
Fr Michael Nazir-Ali
Inventing the king’s fool
Peter K. Andersson’s Fool attempts the impossible: a biography of Henry VIII’s court fool, whose real life barely survives beneath centuries of anecdote
Richard Rex
The danger of a victorious church
The Church’s recent gains among young adults will endure only if they are met with formation, obedience, and the long discipline of faith
James Bradbury
Asceticism, fraternity, and the rediscovery of male faith
Young men are returning to the Church not because it has become easier, but because it has begun once again to ask something of them
R. Jared Staudt
Why migration debates keep missing the point
Modern debates about migration often treat nations as interchangeable spaces for accommodation. This misses a deeper truth: a country is not a house, but a home
Isaac Riley
Why the kids dress like the future is already over
Despite the deliberate, depressing depersonalisation of appearances that so many teenagers are embracing today, it doesn’t appear to be an indication of an inner condition
Chris Yates
Trump’s Christmas Day strikes may have consequences far beyond Nigeria
US strikes do well to highlight Christian persecution and signal potential international consequences beyond Nigeria
Thomas Edwards
A survey of English churches named after the great martyr
A fair number of Catholic churches have been dedicated to St Thomas of Canterbury since the Second Catholic Relief Act which allowed Catholic churches to be detached buildings
Michael Hodges
The ladies of Trianon
Two Oxford women saw the ghost of Marie Antoinette... or did they?
Lucy Lethbridge
Diocese of Clifton discontinues support of same-sex adoption-charity
Following an investigation by the Catholic Herald, the diocese will remove support from CCS adoption
Niwa Limbu
Saint Joseph: The father who became prayer
This reflection considers Saint Joseph as a man who “became prayer,” whose listening obedience unites contemplation and action in the face of hatred and darkness
Br. Damiano Pio CFR
Celebrating childlessness is a sign of civilisational decline
From DINK culture to climate anxiety, childlessness is increasingly framed as moral and aspirational. This Christmastide, the Holy Family exposes the poverty of that vision
Delphine Chui
The Holy Innocents and the violence of a fallen world
The Feast of the Holy Innocents forces us to confront the cost of the Incarnation, as divine love enters a fallen world and exposes the violence, fear and pride that resist it
Gavin Ashenden
Cardinal Pizzaballa: Germany’s Synodal Path is irrelevant
The Latin Patriarch reflects on war, pilgrimage, Christian unity and why Western church debates do not resonate in the Middle East
Regina Einig
The case for St John's assumption
From Ephesus to Augustine to Aquinas, Christian memory preserves an extraordinary claim: that the body of St John the Apostle was never found
Thomas Colsy
What happens when we stop and look at the Crucifix
From Dalí’s Crucifixion to Jung on Ignatius, Dame Rachel de Souza meditates on stillness and meaning
Dame Rachel de Souza
The Guardian’s coverage of Opus Dei treats facts as optional
The report shows how narrative framing and anonymous claims can be allowed to outrun verifiable facts, with papal insinuation used to inflate a limited local dispute into a global Church story
Niwa Limbu
How Dickens taught England to keep Christmas
More than any writer after the Gospels themselves, Charles Dickens shaped how the modern world understands Christmas
Stephen Poxon
Why the U.S. strike in Nigeria was justified
The Christmas Day airstrikes in Nigeria marked a rare instance of a Western power acknowledging religious persecution as a concrete evil
The Catholic Herald
Brother Giles’s Christmas
An abridged version of a Christmas story by the early-20th-century Catholic author whose writing blends fairy tales and miracles
Enid Dinnis
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