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Mount Sinai: why the West must wake up to the erasure of Christianity in the Middle East
the last few decades have been terrible for christians in the levant and wider middle east. the iraq war and the rise of islamic state and a...
Alexander Stafford MP
Art of Friendship: Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone in Dublin
mainie jellett and evie hone, two artists celebrated in an exhibition at the national gallery of ireland in dublin were christian modernists...
Melanie McDonagh
Assisted suicide Communion row: why the state cannot dictate the sacraments
relations between the catholic church and the british state have always been slightly delicate. unfortunately, last week they suffered a wor...
Prof Andrew Tettenborn
Pope Leo pledges in first general audience to maintain Francis's catechesis
in his first public general audience address, pope leo xiv has said he will maintain his predecessor’s focus on jesus christ as a source of ...
Elise Allen
True freedom means letting the Holy Spirit consume us like the 12 Apostles
“and divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them” (acts 2:3) pentecost was a feast when the jews offered burn...
Fr David Howell
US gives most to Peter’s Pence in 2024; Ireland gives most per head
the united states was the largest contributor to the vatican’s peter’s pence collection in 2024, while ireland gave the most per catholic am...
The Catholic Herald
FULL TEXT: Pope Leo XIV inauguration homily
pope leo xiv delivered the following homily at the mass for the initiation of the petrine ministry held in st. peter's square on sunday, 18 ...
Pope Leo XIV
Christian officer sacked by Indian army for refusing to 'worship idols'
mumbai, india – the delhi high court has upheld the dismissal of a christian officer from the indian army for his refusal to participate in ...
Nirmala Carvalho
Dublin's famous Capuchin friar who spent life serving the poor dies aged 90
brother kevin crowley, a capuchin friar who has died at the age of 90 years old, was seen by many in ireland as a living saint for his work ...
DeclanMcSweeney
'The Eucharist is our greatest treasure'
in his sermon at a pontifical mass on 11 june 2025 at northampton cathedral, bishop athanasius schneider described the holy mass as the eter...
The Catholic Herald
Media obsession with 'wicked nuns' upended by Irish report on Tuam mother and baby home
readers might remember the sensational claim that went around the world back in 2014 that almost 800 babies had been found in a septic tank ...
David Quinn
Pope Leo urges Catholic school teachers to be ‘models in life’
pope leo xiv has said that catholic school teachers should be “models in life" as well as "models of faith" during what he described as a te...
Charles Collins
Religious orders may be forced out of care homes by assisted suicide Bill
archbishop-elect john sherrington, the head of life issues for the catholic bishops’ conference of england and wales, has warned that the pr...
Charles Collins
Is this the Killing Parliament?
in the decades to come, when the history of our times is being written, one wonders how this government will come to be seen. it deserves to...
Simon Caldwell
Los Angeles archdiocese responds to riots
the archdiocese of los angeles is trying to help counter the widespread violence that has broken out in the city during protests against fed...
The Catholic Herald
The keys and the sword
“they came to the iron gate leading into the city. it opened for them of its own accord,” (acts 12:10). the angel freed peter from herod’s p...
Fr David Howell
Pope Leo offers world’s journalists a truly alternative form of media
on 12 may 2025, pope leo xiv addressed journalists who had come from all over the world to the vatican to hear from the new pontiff. in his ...
The Catholic Herald
Beatification in Rome for Congolese anti-corruption martyr
bishop willy ngumbi ngengele of goma, in the democratic republic of congo (drc) – a city currently under siege by the rwanda-backed m23 rebe...
Ngala Chimton / Crux
US Jews 'optimistic’ about Pope Leo after strains during Francis’s papacy
an american rabbi has voiced optimism for catholic-jewish relations after the election of pope leo xiv, saying his pontificate marks an oppo...
Elise Allen
A thousand medics call on MPs to oppose abortion up to birth
more than 1,000 medical professionals have called on mps to oppose two abortion up to birth amendments that have been tabled to the governme...
The Catholic Herald
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