Announcements

Sickness forces Pope to cancel Saturday schedule

rome – on saturday morning the vatican announced that pope francis, who suffers from various health maladies and had two hospital stays last...

Despite postponement, Canadian government 'fully committed' to expanding assisted suicide, warn country's bishops

new york – the canadian government remains just as committed to its drive to expand assisted suicide despite a decision to postpone expandin...

Virginia bishops urge laity demand lawmakers 'reject' assisted suicide

new york – virginia’s catholic bishops have raised concerns that assisted suicide could soon become legal in the state after legislation pro...

Why French farmers have the support of the Church in their protest movement

the tractors have lifted their blockades of paris and other major french cities, and the farmers have made their way home.  their two-w...

The spirituality of Pax Aeterna

james davy finds respect and equality in the interplay between piano and plainsong in a new disc from pluscarden abbey. plainchant has an as...

EXCLUSIVE: Calls for 'urgent' inquiry into amendments to legalise late-term abortion in UK

the uk government is being called to launch an urgent inquiry after the medical director of one of the uk’s largest abortion providers repor...

The Catholic Herald

Ecuadorian Catholics negotiate and pray during prison riot crisis

são paulo, brazil – one week after a drug lord escaped from prison and detonated an unprecedented crisis of violence in ecuador, local catho...

EduardoCamposLima

French Bishops’ Conference backs Fiducia Supplicans and its 'generosity'

rome – days after nine french prelates announced they would not authorise to blessings to same-sex couples as requested by the recent vatica...

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

‘Deteriorating situation’: Persecution of Catholic Church in Nicaragua

new york – archbishop thomas wenski of miami has said nicaragua's dictatorship has gone “off the rails” with the latest round of arrests of ...