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The Diocese of Charlotte dubia explained

Bishop Martin’s directive to prohibit the use of altar rails is being met with strong opposition from both laity and priests alike

The Catholic Herald

Why New Atheism stopped fighting Christianity

Two decades ago, New Atheism was raging against Christianity. Today, it is more often a sympathiser

Clericalism, hierarchy and the myth of co-governance

The Church’s struggle to define synodality is increasingly entangled with a poorly defined critique of authority

Ten women championing the pro-life message

As abortion laws expand and protections for the unborn are stripped away, women across the world are leading the fight to defend human life from conception to natural death

What the Church must do in Venezuela

With United States military intervention leaving Venezuela in a precarious position, the Catholic Church may once again be called upon to fill a moral and institutional vacuum

The Coptic Church: A model for Catholic–Orthodox dialogue

As Catholics look toward renewed engagement with the Orthodox Churches, the long and often fruitful dialogue with the Coptic Church shows how ancient divisions can be approached without denying history or doctrine

The Catholic Henry Manning at 175: greatness, grief, and a misunderstood conversion

One hundred and seventy-five years after his reception into the Catholic Church, Henry Manning remains one of the most formidable and most maligned figures of Victorian religious life

Archbishop Laterza was right about feminism

Archbishop Laterza caused a media storm with his comments about freedom, but for Catholics they should come as no shock

What to watch at Pope Leo’s first extraordinary consistory

Joseph Shaw assesses what Pope Leo’s first Extraordinary Consistory will reveal about the balance between tradition and progress in the new pontificate

What Pope Leo’s Lebanon remarks failed to capture

The Pope praised Lebanon’s coexistence. Yet behind the pastoral language lies the fragile reality of a Christian presence struggling to survive

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is Catholic education? Reminders from a forgotten New Year’s encyclical

Ninety-six years after Divini illius magistri, Pius XI’s bracing account of Catholic education remains strikingly timely

Brian Martin Lapsa

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

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