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Confessional Catholics and US public life: Francis X Maier has a journalist’s head and a churchman’s heart

in the united states, opinion polls consistently suggest that to identify as catholic is not a reliable predictor of one’s favoured politica...

No Jews or Catholics, please, we’re Democrats and have a cynical election campaign to run

while you are going to hear a lot about “weird” during the democratic national convention – as discussed by mark jenkins in an article earli...

Neo-liberal chaos: from the Olympics’ opening ceremony to the UK riots

various media outlets have reported that the iranian government summoned the french ambassador in order to demand an explanation for the dis...

Donald Trump's attempted murder warns us that vile rhetoric costs lives

after the terrible attempt to assassinate donald trump, cardinal sean o’malley of boston put the problem besetting america thus: “as a natio...

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Italy’s Prime Minister tells bishops to back off over constitutional reform

rome – after the leader of the italian bishops recently appeared to throw cold water on a key constitutional reform backed by italy’s conser...

Problems with the Vatican's new norms for vetting supernatural phenomena

one of the most compelling attractions of catholicism is the immersion in the supernatural. the church birthed with the miracle of the resur...

Israel objects to Catholic 'moral blindness' to Hamas terror

rome – just as israel continues to deploy its military “hard power” on the gaza strip, defying international pressure to back down, so too i...

Biden in worse trouble than Trump with Catholic voters – especially if they go to Mass

recent survey data from the pew research center indicates that incumbent us president joe biden is up against a high unfavorability rating a...

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Cardinal Müller takes to stage despite police trying to close National Conservatism conference as political crackdown escalates in Brussels

dramatic scenes in brussels today at the national conservatism conference offered a harrowing harbinger of what a police state in the heart ...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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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 ...

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