Catholic Church

The Church’s recent gains among young adults will endure only if they are met with formation, obedience, and the long discipline of faith

James Bradbury

Young men are returning to the Church not because it has become easier, but because it has begun once again to ask something of them

R. Jared Staudt

Despite the deliberate, depressing depersonalisation of appearances that so many teenagers are embracing today, it doesn’t appear to be an indication of an inner condition

Chris Yates

A fair number of Catholic churches have been dedicated to St Thomas of Canterbury since the Second Catholic Relief Act which allowed Catholic churches to be detached buildings

Michael Hodges

Two Oxford women saw the ghost of Marie Antoinette... or did they?

Lucy Lethbridge

Following an investigation by the Catholic Herald, the diocese will remove support from CCS adoption

Niwa Limbu

This reflection considers Saint Joseph as a man who “became prayer,” whose listening obedience unites contemplation and action in the face of hatred and darkness

Br. Damiano Pio CFR

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

Delphine Chui

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

Gavin Ashenden

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

Regina Einig