Catholic Church

Fijian archbishop echoes Pope's warnings about dehumanising impact of Artificial Intelligence

the catholic church in fiji has called on fijians to be mindful of the potentially negative effects of artificial intelligence. archbishop p...

Catholicism and the corrida: a response

the catholic church must sever its ties with bullfighting, argues fr terry martin. pope francis famously wrote in laudato si’ that “every ac...

Fr Terry Martin

One of the Herald’s chaplains answers your questions: Tackling religious ‘myths’

our daughter, felicity, is starting year 9. she is really good at science and wants to be an engineer. getting her to mass hasn’t been easy ...

The Catholic Herald

Christians in the Holy Land

this christmastide issue of the catholic herald is a reminder that, for christians, the festive season is still festive. secular society may...

The Catholic Herald

'Catholicism in Numbers': New data highlights the changing Catholic Church in Britain and Ireland

a new set of pastoral statistics regarding the catholic church in england and wales, scotland and ireland has been released by the catholic ...

'On the eighth day of Christmas my true love sent to me'...Fireworks followed by the dawn of New Year's Day

it is new year’s day. midnight has been marked with the usual eruption of noise. if there was silence in heaven for half an hour, there was ...

New UK director of Word on Fire hopes to set Britain on fire

katherine bennett talks to brenden thompson, the new uk director of word on fire, about establishing the ministry here. in the nowhere place...

Katherine Bennett

Irish-born Los Angeles bishop among 20 'missionaries' who died violently in 2023

a total of 20 missionaries – including an irish-born american bishop – died violently in the service of the faith during 2023, according to ...

Ortega arrests two senior priests in continued crackdown on Nicaraguan clergy

police in nicaragua have arrested two more catholic priests after they prayed in public for a bishop jailed for life when he refused to go i...

Rift widens over gay blessings as Hungarian bishops reject them but Indian cardinal says yes

india’s most senior cardinal has defended fiducia supplicans - the controversial new vatican text approving non-liturgical blessings for sam...