Catholic Church

Four-year study released showing impact of abuse crisis on Catholic community in England and Wales

durham university’s centre for catholic studies has released what is being described as the first study into how the clerical child sexual a...
The Catholic Herald

EU's abortion vote is a ‘radical attack’ on life, says Pope’s top deputy

rome – in a wide-ranging interview, pope francis’s top diplomat said a recent vote and attempt by the european parliament to style abortion ...
Crux Staff

‘Momentous’ day for Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham as it gets first Bishop Ordinary

pope francis has accepted the resignation of the right revd mgr keith newton from his pastoral responsibility for the ordinariate of our lad...
The Catholic Herald

REVIEW – Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond, by Alice Roberts

crypt: life, death and disease in the middle ages and beyond alice roberts simon & schuster, £22, 352 pages alice roberts’s new book is ...
Hannah Glickstein

Suspended Italian army general now populist politician criticised by bishops for comments on children with disabilities

rome – italian populist politician and suspended army general roberto vannacci has been criticised by activists and the country’s catholic b...
Elise Allen

Living in Christ is a call to love by word, deed and truth

what does it mean to live in christ? that is a question the answer to which i found fulfilled in the readings of sunday yesterday. in the bo...
Deacon Hector Ortiz

Pope makes first papal visit to Venice’s  'Biennale' festival to offer stirring message to artists and young people

pope francis made a day trip to venice on sunday to attend a famed annual cultural event, during which he spoke out about the important role...
The Catholic Herald

Bishop Joseph Strickland: A steadfast bishop unafraid to challenge consensus

in 2018 bishop joseph strickland, who led the diocese of tyler, in texas, stuck his head above the parapet at a gathering of the united stat...
Katherine Bennett

Papabili(ty): The cardinals who have seen their prospects in the next conclave harmed and improved by recent news events

stock markets are notoriously fickle, forever expanding or contracting on the basis of whatever new wind happens to blow. let a coup occur i...
John Allen

How to move beyond shame and act boldly like St Paul

st paul "preached boldly at damascus in the name of jesus" according to st barnabas in today's first reading (acts 9:27). but how could st p...
Fr David Howell