Catholic Church

How 'victimhood' is destroying the Church

a misguided quest for equality in the church is driving us further and further away from god , writes gavin ashenden as with chess, so with ...

A solution to problems faced by the Order of Malta?

i humbly entreat thee through the intercession of the most holy virgin of philermo, of st john the baptist, blessed gerard and all the saint...

Father Anonymous

Gugerotti to play vital role in Vatican's efforts to end Ukraine war

the vatican's new prefect for the dicastery for eastern churches is expected to play a pivotal role in the holy see's efforts to end the war...

Olenka Hamilton

Church needs encyclical to counter gender ideology, says Dutch cardinal

a dutch cardinal has asked pope francis for a papal encyclical to combat the false anthropology at the heart of the ideology of gender. card...

Synodality – an exercise in misreading St John Henry Newman and 'Lumen gentium'

one consequence of writing for the catholic herald on the synodal process is that it seems to make some people excitably angry. when socrate...

The clear Catholic overtones in Bob Dylan's most recent work suggest he may have joined the Church

karl gustel warnberg travels to bournemouth to watch bob dylan live in concert ever since his debut as a young musician, bob dylan has been ...

Karl Gustel Warnberg

Cardinal Sarah gives our youth hope 'not by being nice, but by being faithful'

when i was 11 i started at a large co-ed secondary school in what lewis hamilton would later call the “slums” and spent the first few days t...

Katherine Bennett

Curtailing free speech is a civil rights issue

a serious and important measure was passed by the commons amid the psychodrama of liz truss’s unravelling premiership. it was an amendment t...

The Catholic Herald

'Synod', 'synod' and 'synodality': why we should be wary of poorly defined words

what do we mean by "synodal" or "synodality"? this is an important question as the church moves towards the conclusion of the synod on synod...

Dubhaltach O Reachtnin

Fighting for the papacy

victorian crusaders: british and irish volunteers in the papal army, 1860-1870 by nicholas schofield helion & co, 223 pages, £29.95 if o...

Serenhedd James