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The cardinals’ consistory: Will the Church heal her liturgical wounds?
Dom Alcuin Reid considers the pastoral damage done by recent restrictions on the traditional liturgy and the possibility of a more generous settlement under Pope Leo
Dom Alcuin Reid
Review: Pornocracy by Jo Bartosch and Robert Jessel
A new book by Jo Bartosch and Robert Jessel exposes the scale, cruelty, and moral consequences of pornography, and raises uncomfortable questions about freedom, consent, and human dignity
Georgia L. Gilholy
Deepfake pornography and my experience of digital violation
When AI systems generate pornographic deepfakes without consent, the damage is not artificial. For Samantha Smith, the Grok scandal exposes how pornography has reshaped our understanding of human dignity
Samantha Smith
Stranger Things: a villain worthy of better heroes
The final season of Stranger Things delivers a villain of rare moral and symbolic depth, but ultimately denies its heroes the sacrificial weight needed to match him
Daniel Turner
With or without Vatican approval, the SSPX may consecrate bishops
The Superior General of the SSPX has said the Church is now in a deeper state of emergency than in 1988
Niwa Limbu
When Europe’s churches burn
The destruction of the Vondelkerk stands as a sign of Europe’s diminishing confidence in the inheritance it once laboured to preserve
Niwa Limbu
Reclaiming Christmas through Twelfth Night
A secular Christmas starts in Advent and finishes early. David Hahn writes that Catholics should reclaim the feast by celebrating it in its entirety
David Hahn
Placing God at the centre of Catholic business leadership
Fides Entrepreneurship brings together young Catholic business leaders to explore how faith can guide success, ownership and responsibility in modern economic life
Thomas Edwards
What to expect from the extraordinary consistory
What can be expected from Pope Leo XIV’s first extraordinary consistory, and what it may reveal about the direction and tone of the new pontificate
The Catholic Herald
Ireland’s Church and the return of some old questions
Archbishop Martin’s warnings over asset expropriation revive long-standing tensions between the State and the religious orders that once underpinned public life
Melanie McDonagh
Kidnapped Nigerian schoolchildren released, but abductions remain a national crisis
A mass kidnapping at a Catholic school has ended with the release of all captives
The Catholic Herald
Fidelity unto death: 600 Catholic missionaries killed in 25 years
These are not statistics from a distant or romanticised past. They belong squarely to the present
James Bradbury
Posture matters: the case for altar rails
The controversy over altar rails is not about nostalgia or church furniture, but about how Catholics learn reverence
Thomas Colsy
Labour’s crusade against rural Britain
Labour’s animal welfare reforms promise compassion but risk devastating farmers, undermining food security, and accelerating the slow strangulation of rural Britain
Samantha Smith
What young converts are really looking for
Why are young men coming back to the Church? Reflecting on masculinity, authority, and conversion, Noelle Mering explores why a faith that asks something of men is proving more compelling than one that merely affirms them
Noelle Mering
The incoherence of the Charlotte diocese’s ban on altar rails
While presented as pastoral continuity, Charlotte diocese’s ban on altar rails risks doctrinal confusion
Niwa Limbu
Mary, the dignity of waiting and NaPro Technology
Daisy-Mae Inglese reflects on Mary’s motherhood, the quiet revival of family life among young Catholics, and why the Church must take seriously approaches to fertility that honour both women’s bodies and their vocation to life
Daisy-Mae Inglese
Making resolutions the Church’s way: continual conversion, not self-improvement
As New Year’s resolutions return with their promises of self-reinvention, the Church offers a quieter but more demanding alternative
Delphine Chui
Angels in Cookham
In Stanley Spencer’s Sarah Tubb and the Heavenly Visitors, the visionary painter brings the divine to everyday village life, writes Melanie McDonagh
Melanie McDonagh
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
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