Catholic Church

Something for everyone in 2025: looking ahead to next year's Jubilee

rome is getting ready for an invasion in 2025 – a peaceful invasion of 32 million pilgrims, according to the italian statistics office. shop...
Father Michael Collins

Hyper-sexualisation, 'trans'-formation and evangelisation: just your average summer of ideological sport

this summer has thrown up a festival of sport to watch and enjoy. part of the enjoyment flows from someone who represents you winning glory....
Gavin Ashenden

Young Catholic 'Rocky' TikToker who took on renowned Protestant theologian – and won

in the movie classic rocky a humble, poor, local boxer is picked to fight world heavyweight champion apollo creed – and wins against all the...
Heather Tomlinson

Statue of Virgin Mary destroyed by vandals at Westminster diocese church

a statue of the blessed virgin mary has been attacked by unidentified assailants at saint joseph’s catholic church in wembley and reduced to...
The Catholic Herald

Vatican approves devotion to 16th-century Vailankanni Marian shrine in India

the vatican continues to make progress in wading through its backlog of requests for rulings on alleged marian apparitions and other spiritu...
Elise Allen

Planned Parenthood cuts back on NYC abortion services despite governor's massive subsidy

new york – following reports that planned parenthood will no longer provide abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy at its new york city locat...
johnlavenburg

Don’t despair at Last Supper parody: Paris still has a beating heart of faith

it’s hard to stand up in front of a sunday mass congregation and announce that in the coming week you’re going on pilgrimage to paris (and t...
Albert Robertson OP

Thirteen clerics detained in Nicaragua as local Church haemorrhages priests through persecution

at least 13 priests, deacons and members of religious congregations have been illegally detained by the nicaraguan government since the begi...
EduardoCamposLima

EDITORIAL: It's a reckoning when there is only one seminarian for the whole of Dublin

the maxim that the sins of the fathers are visited on the sons is true in a particularly grim sense in ireland where, in the archdiocese of ...
The Catholic Herald

Tributes pour in for Cardinal O’Malley along with warm words for new Archbishop of Boston

when asked by a reporter to consider his legacy in the archdiocese of boston following the news of his retirement, cardinal seán o’malley ga...
johnlavenburg