Catholic Church

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

The sound of the season: choirs, carols, and moral memory

As Advent gives way to Christmas, Britain’s choral tradition reaches its annual peak — from Handel’s Messiah and festive carols to music shaped by war, witness, and faith

The mince pie as an act of resistance

Mince pies are not just seasonal indulgences. They are relics of medieval Catholic England, survivors of Reformation iconoclasm, and quiet witnesses to a long struggle over faith

Summoning the Christmas spirit

The Christmas classics worth returning to are those that still take faith seriously