Catholic Church

All I want for Christmas is you, not an algorithm

As Christmas songs celebrate love and togetherness, a growing number of people are turning instead to AI “companions” for intimacy and advice
Naoise Grenham

Westminster receives its new archbishop

Pope Leo XIV has appointed a new Archbishop of Westminster, five years after Cardinal Vincent Nichols offered his resignation
The Catholic Herald

Chile’s very Catholic president-elect

José Antonio Kast wins Chile’s presidency on a ticket of order, security, and public faith
The Catholic Herald

Mussolini’s complicated relationship with Catholicism

From militant atheism to the Lateran Pacts, Mussolini’s fraught engagement with Catholicism shaped Fascist Italy and beyond
Thomas Edwards

The most overstimulated time of the year

December’s overload is no longer just festive stress but a symptom of digital culture’s grip on our attention
Delphine Chui

Why the push for women deacons persists despite clear teaching

Why did the Vatican feel compelled to restate a teaching that was never in doubt?
Michael Haynes

A changing of the guard in New York

The resignation of Cardinal Dolan as Archbishop of New York and the appointment of Bishop Hicks of Joliet is more than a routine episcopal transition
The Catholic Herald

Has the German synodal way abandoned Catholicism?

Preaching on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, Bishop Peter Kohlgraf of Mainz rejected claims that German bishops have abandoned Catholicism
The Catholic Herald

The Church responds to the Bondi Beach shooting

The most fatal terrorist attack in Australia’s history has sparked condemnation from Catholic leaders around the world
Thomas Edwards

The pope’s executioner

For centuries, popes ruled territories where capital punishment was publicly carried out, prayerfully prepared for, and theologically defended
Thomas Colsy