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The week's reporting from across the Catholic world — what happened, who said what, and what it means.
Bishop Schneider: Pope Francis’s synodal reform is undermining the Church
bishop athanasius schneider is appealing to pope francis to rescind new norms that grant equal voting rights to bishops and laity at the oct...
Diana Montagna
Pope Francis admitted to hospital for surgery to fix hernia
pope francis was admitted to hospital for surgery to correct a hernia, and is now recovering. the argentine pontiff was put under a general ...
Simon Caldwell
Pakistan to hang Christian for 'blasphemous' WhatsApp images sent by Muslim
a court in pakistan has sentenced a christian to death after he received cartoons of mohammad, the founder of islam, in a whatsapp chat mess...
Simon Caldwell
Sunak's new 'free speech' plans do not protect Christians
it is often said that the test of first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain...
Georgia L. Gilholy
The migrant issue and the Church
there are few more fraught political issues than migration, given that civil conflict, political unrest and climate change translate into in...
The Catholic Herald
AI and bread: Transubstantiation can cast a new light on artificial intelligence
there’s been a lot about ai in the news lately, though so far as i know, not much has been written about the relationship between ai and the...
Fr Robert Verrill OP
Diary: By Eduard Habsburg
in my tiny room in a guest house on budapest’s castle hill, i was building a tower of towels and rolls of loo paper. the voice of the bbc te...
Eduard Habsburg
Things can fall apart without ritual
a strange thing happened last week: we missed mass on sunday morning and suddenly the whole day just completely fell apart. lunch time came ...
Olenka Hamilton
Thousands travel to see 'incorrupt' remains of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster
thousands of pilgrims have travelled to see the “incorrupt” remains of the body of sister wilhelmina lancaster, which were yesterday pl...
Hugh Kerr
Conor McGregor: the flawed and troubled athlete with a strong Christian faith
in the 1990s it would’ve been nearly impossible to explain to someone what mixed martial arts was. big, burly men fighting in a cage hardly ...
Karl Gustel Warnberg
Los Angeles Dodgers relaunch 'Christian Faith and Family Day' following row over pride event
the los angeles dodgers have announced a relaunch of their "christian faith and family day" following a recent controversy over the guest li...
Hugh Kerr
Why the Book of Samuel is my favourite in the Bible, by Andrew Roberts
‘there was a certain man from ramathaim, a zuphite from the hill country of ephraim, whose name was elkanah son of jeroham, the son of ...
Andrew Roberts
Obituary: The Dowager Countess of Swinton, 1935-2023
parliamentarian, paralympian and campaigner. better known through her parliamentary work as baroness masham of ilton, the dowager coun...
The Catholic Herald
New observatory formed in Rome to study Marian apparitions
an institution has been formed in rome to study alleged marian apparitions and other supernatural phenomena in the catholic church. the inte...
Hannah Brockhaus
Bolivian bishop calls for 'optional' priestly celibacy following clerical pederasty scandal
a south american bishop has called for “optional celibacy” for priests in the wake of revelations that a gay jesuit missionary sexually abus...
Simon Caldwell
Sciaf chief appointed to lead Caritas six months after mass sackings
the executive director of sciaf, the overseas aid agency of the scottish bishops, has been elected as head of caritas internationalis six mo...
Simon Caldwell
Clergy ID cards are nothing more than a gimmick
france has traditionally been regarded as “la fille aînée de l'église”, the oldest daughter of the church, reflecting the fact that there ha...
Niall Gooch
French priests to carry ID cards to show if they are sex offenders
priests in france will be required to carry qr codes that the public can scan in order to check if they have been struck off as part of a se...
The Catholic Herald
Dogs at the foot of the Cross
lucien de guise on the tale of two paintings, by craigie aitchison and salvador dalí. scotland is not the first place that comes to min...
Lucien de Guise
Pope cracked down on Latin Mass to halt ideological 'restorationism'
pope francis has said he launched the latest crackdown against access to the traditional latin mass because the old rite was being misused “...
Simon Caldwell
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