Life

The Christmas story most of us know is a harmonised retelling. A closer reading of Matthew and Luke reveals two distinct, carefully constructed infancy narratives

The Christmas classics worth returning to are those that still take faith seriously

Samantha Smith reflects on grief and loss at the time of Christ’s arrival

Gatherings of family and friends at Christmas can be complicated, as these two well-known stories relate

As Christmas songs celebrate love and togetherness, a growing number of people are turning instead to AI “companions” for intimacy and advice

December’s overload is no longer just festive stress but a symptom of digital culture’s grip on our attention

Discernment isn’t just about choosing a vocation. It’s about learning to make every decision with God

A Herald chaplain explains Church teaching on female altar servers

How Our Lady of Guadalupe confronts the idols that endure across every age

In a culture allergic to silence, Advent invites us back into the lost art of waiting

Suffering has drawn Dominic Perrem into the same quiet place where his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather once stood: before the Eucharist.

Delphine Chui explores how convenience culture, frictionless living, and declining community life are reshaping our humanity.

Del Toro’s Frankenstein is more than horror. It’s theology in Gothic form. Jan Bentz traces the film’s portrait of innocence, pride, and mercy.

The idea that Advent should resemble even a shadow of Lent horrifies the modern world, but it didn’t terrify our Medieval Christians forebears

The recent decision upholding North Dakota’s pro-life statute shows the law recognising the moral claim that life begins at conception and merits legal protection

It takes a peculiar cast of mind to find cause for concern when a child says grace before meals. But it is this which resulted in the UK Supreme Court challenging the entire system of religious education in Northern Ireland

At the heart of this ruling is the question of who ultimately shapes the moral architecture of a nation: its own people, formed by a distinctive Christian culture? Or a Brussels-based bureaucracy increasingly confident in imposing a uniform social vision across the continent?

Bishop Bulus Dauwa Yohanna of Kontagora Diocese, under which the school falls, has confirmed the deaths in a statement

A new UK clinical trial offering puberty blockers to children as young as ten takes little account of the facts or of what it means to be a child, writes Samantha Smith.

When Prince Albert II of Monaco declined to sign a bill that would have legalised abortion in the Principality, Catholics rightly applauded. But his brave interjection is by no means an isolated incident among European royalty