Catholic Church

Turning into (im)mortality: An Ash Wednesday sermon

a woman participates in the celebration of ash wednesday at the cathedral in managua, on march 1, 2017. (photo credit: inti ocon/afp/getty i...
Richard Cipolla

Two more priests kidnapped in Nigeria

fr john ubaechu parish priest of holy family church, izombe, imo state was kidnapped on sunday 24 th  march following the abduction of ...
John Newton

People like us: Kim Samuel and Bishop Erik Varden on community, belonging and togetherness in a post-Covid world

i cannot now remember the number of times that i have sat in the sheldonian theatre in oxford, wearing an academic gown of either red or bla...
Serenhedd James

The Church must deal with abuse head-on if it wants to recover its moral authority

it sometimes feels as though the endless flow of clerical abuse scandals will never stop, writes niall gooch. the most recently uncovered pe...
Niall Gooch

"We are here to stay and struggle”– Cardinal Pell on the Church's power of endurance

flanked by two enormous eighteenth-century portraits of long-dead judges, on saturday 13th november cardinal george pell delivered the oxfor...
Serenhedd James

Godfather ban: Sicilian Catholic diocese suspends naming of godparents at baptism for 3 years

rome newsroom, oct 20, 2021 / 06:10 am there will be no godfathers named in the sicilian archdiocese of catania for the next three years due...
Courtney Mares

Exile of Nicaraguan bishop was act of persecution, not a triumph for life

the liberation of bishop rolando álvarez of matagalpa from jail in nicaragua was met with a collective sigh of relief throughout the catholi...
Simon Caldwell

Fiducia Supplicans: Taking stock

we’ve been here before, says john l allen jr, as the arguments continue. after years of ferment in catholicism over a highly sensitive matte...
John Allen

Did the Pope’s message to Europe miss the elephant in the room?

pope francis has encouraged young people gathered at the european union youth conference in the czech republic to present to the world “a ne...
The Catholic Herald

Mending a fractured American Church

the us bishops’ conference is to issue a teaching document “on the beauty and power of the eucharist”.   it is overdue. in 2019, a pew ...
The Catholic Herald