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Pilgrimage emphasised by Vatican as opportunity for indulgences during Jubilee 2025
rome – the vatican has issued guidance on how to obtain the traditional plenary indulgence during the upcoming jubilee of hope, placing a sp...
Elise Allen
Feast of Our Lady of Pompeii and anniversary of foundational stone laid at famous shrine
today is the feast of our lady of pompeii, one of the most recent titles bestowed on the virgin mary. may 8 also commemorates the anniversar...
James Jeffrey
Letters to the Editor: Ideologies increasing exponentially and risk replacing God with individualism
false idols sir – when i was young, my widowed mother would gather her children together for prayers at bedtime. she always included this: “...
Catholic Herald Readers
Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati closer to canonisation, reports cardinal
blessed pier giorgio frassati could be declared a saint during the catholic church’s 2025 jubilee year, according to the head of the vatican...
The Catholic Herald
Cradle Catholics forget how easy they have it compared to us Anglican converts
the appointment of fr david waller as the first bishop ordinary of the personal ordinariate of our lady of walsingham represents not only a ...
Matthew Showering
How every phrase in the explosive Nicene Creed is packed with the power to change lives
easter and creeds go together, for many reasons. not just because the creeds incorporate easter, but also because they only exist because of...
Gavin Ashenden
In Peter’s faltering journey to sainthood there is surely hope for us all
among the many wonderful paradoxes of catholic faith, practice and history is that now-canonised saints did not always act so saintly. from ...
Ken Craycraft
A tale of two cities: Wandering through London, from a pagan temple to the Brompton Oratory
i took myself off on a jaunt through london last month, following a favourite route through two cities (the other being westminster) which t...
Serenhedd James
Holy Land Cardinal criticises anti-Israel protests on US university campuses
rome – cardinal pierbattista pizzaballa of jerusalem has criticised the anti-israel protests taking place on college and university campuses...
Elise Allen
Sir Edward Leigh MP at the Catholic Union: A 'loveable rascal' retires
it’s always nice to be asked to a party – especially when it’s in the grand surroundings of the mother of parliaments, when i get to rub sho...
The Catholic Herald
‘Momentous’ day for Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham as it gets first Bishop Ordinary
pope francis has accepted the resignation of the right revd mgr keith newton from his pastoral responsibility for the ordinariate of our lad...
The Catholic Herald
Bishop Joseph Strickland: A steadfast bishop unafraid to challenge consensus
in 2018 bishop joseph strickland, who led the diocese of tyler, in texas, stuck his head above the parapet at a gathering of the united stat...
Katherine Bennett
How to move beyond shame and act boldly like St Paul
st paul "preached boldly at damascus in the name of jesus" according to st barnabas in today's first reading (acts 9:27). but how could st p...
Fr David Howell
A rallying cry to the Church by one of 20th century's great intellectual converts: Elizabeth Anscombe's 1938 letter to the Catholic Herald
in 1938, the catholic herald invited young catholics to give an account of their faith. this is an abridged version of what the young philos...
Elizabeth Anscombe
Visiting the domain of an antipope: the Palmarian pontiff
the centuries that followed the reformation, whether consequentially or coincidentally, saw an end to serious contenders to the papacy. the ...
Thomas Edwards
Archdiocese of Birmingham gets two new Auxiliary Bishops
pope francis has appointed two new auxiliary bishops to serve the archdiocese of birmingham. monsignor timothy menezes, dean of st chad's ca...
The Catholic Herald
Despite Tate Modern's best efforts the Christian impulses of 'The Blue Rider' Expressionists shine through
the blue rider – der blaue reiter – was the name of a group, an almanac and an artistic movement, all of them centred round the remarkable f...
Melanie McDonagh
AI priest avatar gets the chop in first week of digital ministry
an ai-generated avatar priest that was launched at the start of the week by a catholic organisation appears to have been digitally defrocked...
James Jeffrey
Reflections on a pilgrimage to a Jordan Peterson rally: the good, the bad and the evil
last week i made my first visit, or pilgrimage even, to a jordan peterson rally in oklahoma in the united states. i and my youtube colleague...
Gavin Ashenden
New Catholic Lectionary for British churches arriving this Advent following approval by Vatican
a new lectionary will come into use in parishes in england, wales and scotland from advent 2024. the vatican’s dicastery for divine worship ...
The Catholic Herald
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