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US cardinal says ‘Dignitas Infinita’ clarifies that LGBTQ Catholics are loved but the Church’s moral teachings still apply
rome – cardinal wilton gregory of washington, dc, has praised the new vatican document on human dignity as a “welcome summation” of church t...
Elise Allen
Catholic Relief Services in Holy Land 'extremely concerned' after deaths of aid workers in Israeli air strike
mourners gather around the body of palestinian issam abu taha, a worker from the world central kitchen (wck), who was killed in an israeli a...
johnlavenburg
Ugly scenes at Manchester University embody how abortion in UK holds up a mirror to society
students attending the university of manchester pro-life society’s inaugural gathering earlier this month were spat at, threatened with rape...
Georgia L. Gilholy
Only Jesus offers us a glorified body, not transhumanism and visions of a technological human future
the season of lent in which we find ourselves once more is a time to prepare for easter, the high point of the liturgical year in which we c...
Fr Robert Verrill OP
Inglorious Revolution: subcurrents around James II’s attempts at religious toleration
“the glorious revolution” is one of those phrases catholics like to put quotation marks around. the dominant narrative of james ii’s deposit...
Lucy Underwood
NHS end-of-life 'pathway' practises continue despite being banned
the liverpool care pathway (lcp) was abolished in every hospital and hospice in the country just under a decade ago. this end-of-life-care p...
Simon Caldwell
How the Magi found truth in the Messiah, not astrology
looking to the skies. today, astrology is big business. yet despite its popularity, i don’t expect governments to start depicting astrologic...
Fr Robert Verrill OP
'On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to me'…The Star of Bethlehem and the Infant Christ
today, astrology is big business. in 2021, the global astrology market size was valued at $12.8 billion, and it is projected to grow to $22....
Fr Robert Verrill OP
One of the Herald’s chaplains answers your questions: Tackling religious ‘myths’
our daughter, felicity, is starting year 9. she is really good at science and wants to be an engineer. getting her to mass hasn’t been easy ...
The Catholic Herald
Don’t give up on the Church – and certainly not because of Fiducia Supplicans
christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat and a lot of catholics are arguing after the release of fiducia supplicans . welcome to ...
Katherine Bennett
US priesthood riven by ‘generational mistrust’ as conservative shift leaves younger priests ‘suspicious' of Church hierarchy
new york, crux – when asked to sum up the state of the american priesthood, catholic university of america sociologist brandon vaidyanathan ...
John Lavenburg
Vatican trial raises the question: Is Pope Francis ‘Great Reformer’ or ‘Great Restorer’?
rome – anyone who’s ever read or seen inherit the wind knows that almost 100 years ago, a celebrated trial took place in the ame...
John Allen
Mixed reactions to Vatican 'Trial of the Century': will anyone actually go to jail?
rome – after a staggering total of 30 months, 85 hearings stretching over some 600 courtroom hours, 69 witnesses and almost 150,000 pages of...
John L Allen
Freedom wins as Finnish politician found 'not guilty' of hate speech for Bible tweet
it is a worrying fact that the right of catholics, and indeed all christians, to manifest their beliefs can’t be taken for granted these day...
Prof Andrew Tettenborn
How war in the Holy Land imperils our Judaeo-Christian civilisation
i had wanted to write only theology and spirituality. raw politics always presents added complexities. it is too often the practice of power...
Gavin Ashenden
Islam's problem with Jews goes back millennia
the events in israel and gaza have presented the world with a clash of political ambitions of the most intense kind, bathed in the deeply em...
Gavin Ashenden
October's Synod in Rome will have an impact far beyond the Church
there has been a good deal of hype over this month’s synod on synodality in rome, which will draw together nearly 400 participants. touching...
Elise Ann Allen
An app to reveal how the BBC has long given up on neutrality
john reith, the first director-general of the bbc, was intensely high-minded. a scottish presbyterian, he imbued the organisation with a sen...
Niall Gooch
The Lancet's misguided invocation of Gramsci
earlier this year, the lancet , a 200-year-old medical journal, carried an editorial entitled, “we must engage in a war of posi...
Anthony McCarthy
Is Pope Francis stacking the deck for the next conclave?
are we reading too much into pope francis’s upcoming consistory, which could influence the choice of his successor, asks john h allen jr . r...
John Allen
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