Catholic Church

Celebrating childlessness is a sign of civilisational decline

From DINK culture to climate anxiety, childlessness is increasingly framed as moral and aspirational. This Christmastide, the Holy Family exposes the poverty of that vision

The Holy Innocents and the violence of a fallen world

The Feast of the Holy Innocents forces us to confront the cost of the Incarnation, as divine love enters a fallen world and exposes the violence, fear and pride that resist it

Cardinal Pizzaballa: Germany’s Synodal Path is irrelevant

The Latin Patriarch reflects on war, pilgrimage, Christian unity and why Western church debates do not resonate in the Middle East

The case for St John's assumption

From Ephesus to Augustine to Aquinas, Christian memory preserves an extraordinary claim: that the body of St John the Apostle was never found

What happens when we stop and look at the Crucifix

From Dalí’s Crucifixion to Jung on Ignatius, Dame Rachel de Souza meditates on stillness and meaning

Dame Rachel de Souza

The Guardian’s coverage of Opus Dei treats facts as optional

The report shows how narrative framing and anonymous claims can be allowed to outrun verifiable facts, with papal insinuation used to inflate a limited local dispute into a global Church story

Why the U.S. strike in Nigeria was justified

The Christmas Day airstrikes in Nigeria marked a rare instance of a Western power acknowledging religious persecution as a concrete evil

The Catholic Herald

Brother Giles’s Christmas

An abridged version of a Christmas story by the early-20th-century Catholic author whose writing blends fairy tales and miracles

Bishop David Waller on the feast of Stephen

Bishop David Waller, the Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, reflects on what St Stephen’s example teaches us about Christmas

Bishop David Waller

Interview: Cardinal Burke on the liturgy, Christmas, and the conclave

In a Christmas Day interview, Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke speaks about the conclave, the liturgy, and why young Catholics are turning towards tradition