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Wheels within wheels: the joy of Advent

Ken Craycraft reflects on how the different parts of Advent contribute to rejoicing in the resolution

AI's growing ubiquity needs the Church to articulate the ethics of this second industrial revolution

As AI reshapes language, work and what is considered truth, the Church's voice on these issues is important not only to the faithful but in shaping the narrative around this technology for all peoples

The case against Nick Fuentes

His recent appearances on major podcasts have propelled the far-right commentator into mainstream attention. Yet in a confused political and cultural landscape, Catholics should remember that his views remain abhorrent to the Faith

Church’s highest honour for Cardinal Newman, England’s diamond

When Pope Leo XIV named St John Henry Newman a Doctor of the Church, it crowned a legacy that stretches from Victorian Oxford to Nazi Germany, and from the White Rose martyrs to Benedict XVI, through one idea: conscience.

Vatican eyes Bishop Robert Lombardo as potential successor to Cardinal Dolan or Cupich

Vatican insiders believe Bishop Lombardo is being strongly considered as either the next Archbishop of New York or the next Archbishop of Chicago

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Tucker Carlson calls Christian Zionism a “heresy”

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has denounced Christian Zionism as a “Christian heresy” in a recent podcast with Nick Fuentes, accusing leading US conservatives of putting Israel’s interests before their own country.

Alice's wonderland: the Catholic world of Alice Meynell

Meynell's essays are as taut and observant as Virginia Woolf's, and in many ways more expressive of the period in which she lived. Did Meynell disappear from the literary canon because she was a Catholic woman?

Bonnie Lander Johnson

Announcement: the Catholic Herald secures new equity investment

patrick gruhn; media & technology entrepreneur joins board agreement also grants rights to syndicate the catholic herald’s 137-year arch...

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Peter Thiel's Antichrist lectures

One of the richest and most powerful men in the world has just completed a series of off-the-record lectures on the Antichrist. The talks set an eerie tone for political and technological developments in the 21st century

Has Pope Leo blotted his copybook over ‘Cupichgate’ and his equivalency on abortion?

Pope Leo was asked about Cardinal Cupich’s award to the pro-abortionist Senator Dick Durbin. He then used the 'seamless garment' approach to Catholic ethics to link together abortion, immigration and the death penalty

New biography of James VI and I unpicks his attitude to Catholicism

A handsome table clock made for the first King of Great Britain and of Ireland had on its sides images of the four Evangelists, but hidden on its base an engraving of James and his sons holding the Pope’s nose to a grindstone

Fr John Morrill

Eamon Duffy reflects on Newman’s impending elevation

pope leo is soon to declare st john henry newman a doctor of the church: one of the great theologians whose writings have been formally reco...

The battle for optics and the power of publicity.

the left is good at optics. the trads are not. the progressives—much more at home in the political than the spiritual—are excellent at spin ...

Catholic influencers react to Voice of Reason apology

The Catholic internet world has once again found itself divided after Alex Jurado, better known by his online moniker The Voice of Reason, admitted to serious moral failings, including inappropriate online relationships with women

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Bishops intervene over Toulouse convicted rapist chancellor appointment

france’s bishops have intervened in a growing scandal over the appointment of a convicted rapist to a senior diocesan post in toulouse. on 1...

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The Tridentine Mass as an antidote to informality

one of the highlights of the ecclesial summer is the pilgrimage from paris to chartres. this year, many of my friends and colleagues set out...

Douglas Murray, Jordan Peterson and the theology of death cults

what we believe about the existence of good and evil – but perhaps especially evil – shapes the map of the world we hold in our heads. conve...

Europe’s bishops hope US-born Pope can break through Trump's anti-EU bias

several leading european bishops that represent catholic interests in the european union have stated that a significant concern for them tha...

Alasdair MacIntyre, titan of philosophy and Catholic convert, dies at 96

alasdair macintyre, a towering figure in moral philosophy and a catholic convert, has died at the age of 96 years old. credited with revivin...

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Popes understand the weaknesses of democracy more than politicians

in 1995, st john paul ii wrote, in his encyclical evangelium vitæ , that “without an objective moral grounding, not even democracy is capabl...

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