Mary’s Advocates, a lay organisation that seeks to uphold marriage against unilateral no-fault divorce, argues the bishop’s stance involves an error historically condemned as an 'anathema'

For all the five-star reviews and sold-out houses, critics are missing the deeper story: what makes this work so powerful isn't just the performances or gospel-infused score, but how it reveals the fundamental disconnect – and potential reconciliation – between Catholic witness and contemporary secular culture

A directive circulated to priests in the Diocese of Austin has told parishes to withdraw kneelers used during the distribution of Holy Communion

Cardinal Konrad Krajewski has responded to secular media claims that transgender activists were intentionally excluded from Pope Leo XIV’s top table at the Vatican’s Jubilee Lunch for the Poor

While several groups and institutes celebrate the Old Rite within the structures of Rome, Bishop Fernando Arêas Rifan remains the only bishop in the world whose entire pastoral ministry is centred on the Traditional Latin Mass

Cosima Clara Gillhammer is a Career Development Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford. She teaches English Literature and writes about literature, culture, and liturgy in medieval England

The Catholic Emancipation Act was passed in 1829, giving Catholics proper freedom in building churches even to the extent of having towers and spires, hitherto disallowed. In 1850, Catholic Dorset was made part of the Diocese of Plymouth. It was well endowed with religious houses up to the Reformation

The decree, issued on the bicentenary of the church’s dedication, brings St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral formally into line with its role at the heart of Catholic life in the Irish capital

Celebrating Mass to mark the Jubilee of the Poor, in his homily the Pope described how in addition to material forms of poverty, there are also many moral and spiritual situations of poverty – while the tragedy that cuts across them all is loneliness

The Dominican answer to Delia Smith, offers culinary advice for when dealing with an expanding novitiate of mouths to feed

Pope Leo XIV has applauded the witness of cloistered nuns, explaining that their 'silent and hidden love' enables them to remain free from what he describes as the 'slavery' of society’s focus on outward appearances.

Tom Homan, a self-described 'lifelong Catholic', has launched a sharp attack on the US Conference of Catholic Bishops after they issued a collective statement raising concerns over the Trump administration’s immigration policies

What might be strikingly different about 'Vanishing Landscapes: The Story of Plants and How We Lost Them' to any reader of the writings of other nature writers, is the ready celebration of the tie between the history of agriculture in this particular land and Christian metaphysics

The lunch will take place in the Paul VI Hall following Mass for the World Day of the Poor, when hundreds of homeless and marginalised people will dine with the Holy Father

Representatives of the German Bishops’ Conference met with senior officials from the Roman Curia in Rome this week as part of a continued round of talks over the creation of a national synodal body for the Church in Germany

She remains the only known queen of England to have made the journey to Rome on her own, which she completed in 1191

A spokesperson for the Dicastery for Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments has responded to claims that there would be a policy change under Pope Leo on the Traditional Latin Mass

Hell exists because God respects our freedom to choose His love, the way of the Cross or the alternative; while Jesus in the Gospels constantly reminds us of the gravity of our choices. But even Catholics forget this, a new book pointedly notes

The Vatican also took the rare step of giving control of the Archdiocese of Santo Domingo to a coadjutor in a strong act of oversight. Canonically, a coadjutor is appointed to assist an incumbent; his being granted outright control of a diocese, with the metropolitan largely sidelined, is unusual

Reports from the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales indicate a potential new policy whereby if any bishop requests dispensation for the TLM – it will be granted