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Dads must step up and not rely on Catholic schools to nurture a child's faith

Our responsibility to give our children a Christian upbringing is not fulfilled even with the enrolment of our children in the finest of all Catholic educational institutions

Nathaniel Binversie

Charlie Kirk’s murder and reactions to it indicate a society in moral freefall

We have witnessed a vicious manifestation of the fractured society that we have all contributed in creating. A society on the verge of collapse

Godliness and grumpiness: there’s virtue in putting up with frustrating things

Harold Shipman would have loved this assisted dying Bill

With the Lords set to debate Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide Bill, Simon Caldwell lays out the historic shift it would cause — turning British doctors into lawful killers and opening the door to abuses already seen in Canada.

The shooting of Charlie Kirk is a spiritual crisis, not just a political one

Canterbury tales: St Thomas Becket’s martyrdom echoes down the centuries

Georgia L. Gilholy

The Cambridge counter-revolt against assisted suicide

Newman’s new men: how the Church’s newest Doctor led many into Rome

Who has the best tunes? The Church must reclaim sacred music to lift the soul

From womb to waste: how modernity made life disposable

'Scottish Joan of Arc' at centre of media storm represents more than the weapons she wielded

Those who evoke the French saint ought to be telling the story as one which raises the expectation of a prophetic encounter with God, rather than settling for just another meme

Canada’s Mennonites demonstrate how faith should instruct the political

As 'Gaudium et Spes' insists: 'the split between the faith which many profess and their daily lives deserves to be counted among the more serious errors of our age'

The battle for optics and the power of publicity.

Is Michel Houellebecq the greatest living non-Catholic Catholic writer?

Any fan of the controversial French novelist, especially any Catholic fan, will find it hard not to notice just how 'Catholic' this non-Catholic writer can be in his novels

The Catholic Herald

Gun control is easier for the Left than confronting metaphysical evil

It is also the continuation of a political struggle to exercise administrative and governmental control over its citizenry

God, Gen Z and the Great British Divine Comeback

Faith returns as young people seek meaning in modern confusion.

Pope Leo’s desire for ‘flatmates’ offers a valuable lesson to all Catholics

It is encouraging to discover the Pope’s determination to live in community and bring Augustinian spirituality to the heart and apex of the Catholic Church, beginning with the papal apartments

Motherhood should trump career ambitions

The idea that women can have it all is one of the biggest myths told to my generation. So I am always edified when people of prominence shatter this illusion with common sense

Portia Berry-Kilby

The Camino de Santiago reminds us to walk in the footsteps of the Pilgrim Church

'The Pilgrim Church' is one of those mysterious, allusively beautiful phrases that moves in and out of a Catholic layperson’s consciousness – but it wasn't one that I dwelt on until my own experience of pilgrimage this summer

Return of the Word: why the young are turning back to God at remarkable speed

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