Catholic Church

Synod participants emphasise role of women in Church mustn't eclipse need to involve all laity

those taking part in the synod of bishops have emphasised that despite women’s ordination being removed from this year’s discussion there ar...
Elise Allen

Kamala Harris’s contempt for Catholic voting bloc may cost her dear in such a close election

as the us election gets ever closer in time and looks set to be no less close in terms of what will decide who wins it, there are increasing...
The Catholic Herald

EDITORIAL: The telling outcome of the latest round of red-hat roulette

the holy father has done it again: 21 new prelates of his liking to be made cardinals on 8 december. by this stage of the francis papacy the...
The Catholic Herald

Lebanon caught by political and economic interests working against peace, warns Maronite bishop

a lebanese prelate has decried political and economic forces that prevent peace from being achieved in the middle east, as the one-year anni...
Elise Allen

Timothy Radcliffe OP named cardinal in latest round of Pope's red-hat handouts

rome – pope francis on sunday announced a consistory in december for the creation of 21 new cardinals from all over the world, representing ...
Elise Allen

Franken v Francis: protests planned in Rome after Pope rules out women deacons

rome – referring to the handling of questions about the role of women in the church at the current synod of bishops on synodality as “catast...
Elise Allen

Death at the hands of the state: MPs push for broader access ahead of assisted-dying Bill

london - scores of mps are pushing for broader access to assisted suicide ahead of the introduction of a bill to legalise the practice. they...
Simon Caldwell

Conservative or liberal, right or left? Speaking Catholic with Pope Francis

rome – a few days ago, pope francis said something which, ironically, his most ferocious critics on the far catholic right likely would be t...
John L Allen

Month of the Holy Rosary: praying the beads in the company of Our Lady herself

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

Highways and byways to fascinate Catholics, with Fr Nicholas Schofield as guide

for anyone thinking of having a holiday somewhere in england i have only one message to impart: take this book with you. inspired by the “hi...
Alicia Godfrey