Get 3 months of unlimited digital access for just $3
Subscribe today and get your first 3 months for just $3. Cancel at any time.
Subscribe
Newsletters
Newsletters
Chapter House
Latest
Sign In
Log Out
Subscribe
Search The
Catholic Herald
Sign In
Log Out
Subscribe
Sign Out
About
Our History
Contact
Sections
Latest
Chapter House
Columns
Life
Soul
Culture
Vatican Dispatch
Archives
Historic Archive
Exact Editions
More
Newsroom
Magazine
Magnificat
Latest Issue
latest feed
Letters from the Vatican #5
at the beginning of february, a month in which an intense, global media spotlight has been focused on the catholicism’s struggles with cleri...
Xavier Rynne II
A new ideology is attacking celibacy. We've been through all this before
the consensus has it out for priestly celibacy and chastity in catholicism. which means we the faithful, lay and clerical, are called to ral...
Sohrab Ahmari
Tagle: Confront the 'stench of filth' caused by abuse
an expert on abuse prevention offered “practical suggestions” to participants at a vatican summit on child sexual abuse on thursday, while t...
Catholic News Agency
Sodalit founder expelled from congregation
the founder of the sodalitium christianae vitae has been formally expelled from the group, and forbidden from contacting any member of the s...
Catholic News Agency
Covington Catholic student sues Washington Post over Nathan Phllips story
attorneys for covington catholic high school student nicholas sandmann announced they filed a $250 million dollar lawsuit against the washin...
Christine Rousselle/CNA
Morning Catholic must-reads: 22/02/19
leaked documents have raised new questions about when the vatican knew of allegations against argentine bishop gustavo zanchetta ( spanish r...
Luke Coppen
Letters from the Vatican #4
“ grant, we pray, almighty god, that no tempests may disturb us, for you have set us fast on the rock of the apostle peter’s confession of f...
Xavier Rynne II
In private meeting, survivors tell leaders of abuse summit: 'We want action'
about a dozen victims of clergy sexual abuse met wednesday with the organizing committee of the vatican sex abuse summit, expressing their d...
Hannah Brockhaus/CNA
Dubia cardinals ask bishops to confront 'plague of the homosexual agenda'
catholic bishops around the world need to combat the homosexual agenda in the church, two cardinals said in an open letter addressed to the ...
Catholic News Agency
Survivors from Africa, Asia at Vatican to call for 'zero tolerance' of abuse cover-up
while studying at an african minor seminary at the age of 14, benjamin kitobo says he was abused by a belgian priest, who had been sent to a...
Courtney Grogan/CNA
Dutch cathedral may be sold due to poor attendance
st catherine’s cathedral in utrecht is expected to be closed and sold due to an ongoing decrease in attendance, as the aging building has be...
Catholic News Agency
Morning Catholic must-reads: 21/02/19
pope francis has approved the jesuits’ four priorities for the next decade . the cause of fr augustus tolton, the first african-american pri...
Luke Coppen
Letters from the Vatican #3
grant, we pray, almighty god, that we may so follow the teaching and example of the bishop saint peter damian, that, putting nothing before ...
Xavier Rynne II
Chilean whistleblower to meet bishops ahead of abuse summit
juan carlos cruz, a clerical sex abuse whistleblower and a victim of fr fernando karadima, will meet with bishops and with fellow victims of...
Catholic News Agency
Notre Dame rescinds McCarrick's honorary degree
the university of notre dame has rescinded the honorary doctor of laws (ll.d.) degree it conferred on former cardinal theodore mccarrick in ...
Catholic News Agency
Supreme Court rejects abortion provider's attempt to get bishops' internal documents
the us supreme court has rejected hearing an appeal from whole woman’s health, a texas-based abortion facility chain, which aimed to get the...
Catholic News Service
Cologne's cardinal warns against inventing 'a new Church'
noting the challenges facing the church in germany, cardinal rainer maria woelki of cologne told ewtn last week that amid dispute over the c...
Catholic News Agency
Letters from the Vatican #2
the view from (and in) the u.s. thanks in part to the hyperventilating language of last year’s pennsylvania grand jury report (which followe...
Xavier Rynne II
McCarrick has gone. But McCarrickism lives on
the defrocking of the former cardinal, and now former priest, theodore mccarrick, might seem to draw a line under the whole sorry saga. but&...
Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Why priests need our prayers now more than ever
an article in catholic world report for monday, titled “a priest who offered his life in reparation for the sins of priests” by dr patrick k...
Francis Phillips
Previous
Next
subscribe to the catholic herald today
Our best content is exclusively available to our subscribers. Subscribe today and gain instant access to expert analysis, in-depth articles, and thought-provoking insights—anytime, anywhere. Don’t miss out on the conversations that matter most.
Subscribe