Catholic Church

Opposing cardinal and archbishop make World Series wager to benefit Catholic schools

the stakes for the 2024 world series between the los angeles dodgers and the new york yankees now include an unexpected wager by the two sen...
The Catholic Herald

St Birinus Music Festival to celebrate Allhallowtide with the music of 'commemoration' – Gregorian chant

a musical performance is strikingly akin to an act of commemoration. it is the job of musicians to commune with composers who, more often th...
Ryan Wigglesworth

Synod displayed Catholicism's uncanny ability to frustrate just about everyone

from the beginning, one of the most persistent charges against pope francis’s synod of bishops on synodality, which got underway in 2021 and...
John L Allen

Assisted suicide ideology is Nazism, says Bishop Egan as he urges Catholics to fight Bill

the bishop of portsmouth has today urged the people of his diocese to ask their mps to vote against assisted suicide, warning them that the ...
Simon Caldwell

The First Theologian: Praying the Rosary in the company of Our Lady

october is the second of two months each year dedicated to the blessed virgin mary, with the feast of our lady of the rosary falling on 7 oc...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP

Archdiocese of Paris opposes government plan to charge admission to Notre Dame

the french government has proposed introducing an entry fee for notre-dame cathedral in paris to fund the conservation of religious heritage...
Thomas Edwards

US bishop: Pope's encyclical on Heart of Jesus is antidote to 'ills of modern society'

new york – the head of the united states' conference of catholic bishops says the new encyclical of pope francis has offered a “simple and p...
John Lavenburg

Cardinal Nichols gives his reaction to Pope's 'remarkable' Dilexit Nos

the head of the catholic church in england and wales had given his reaction to pope francis’s latest encyclical  dilexit nos . in welco...
The Catholic Herald

Six-time Olympian’s tragic diagnosis apparently boosts the case for assisted suicide – so claims the Guardian

it was weird, just reading the guardian's headline i had this strange sense of where it was going. "could we all be as positive as chris hoy...
James Jeffrey

St Philomena’s Way part of project for pilgrimage routes in all 21 dioceses of England and Wales

the diocese of shrewsbury is promoting a new pilgrimage route called st philomena's way as part of a national project to establish walking p...
The Catholic Herald