Catholic Church

USCCB report: Are American Catholics as divided as they seem?

has synodal report accurately captured the state of us catholicism? at face value, a new report on the state of american catholics makes for...
The Catholic Herald

Cardinal Filoni stands up for Zen amid Vatican inaction

cardinal zen’s trial began on monday, with yet more pressure on the vatican as the trial of cardinal joseph zen got underway this week in ho...
The Catholic Herald

Cuba backs same-sex marriage and adoption

in a referendum last sunday in cuba, voters approved same-sex marriage and adoption in overwhelming numbers. although the catholic church ha...
The Catholic Herald

Cardinal Roche and the future of the Latin Mass

as simon caldwell recently argued in the catholic herald , british prelate – cardinal arthur roche – is now a potential candidate to succeed...
The Catholic Herald

A lesson from history: recusant architecture and the Latin Mass

the priest hole in england was the secret place built into a home, behind a staircase or fire place, where catholic priests who were invited...
Gavin Ashenden

Q&A with the heads of St Anthony's school, Hampstead

richard berlie, head of st anthony’s boys’, and donal brennan, head of st anthony’s girls’, in london, on what makes their schools stand out...
The Catholic Herald

Time to act in Nicaragua

human rights defender bianca jagger has called upon catholic leaders around the world to speak out forcefully against the persecution of the...
Simon Caldwell

Gadfly and Scourge: On Alice Thomas Ellis

almost two decades after her death in 2005, alice thomas ellis’s novels and non-fiction works are available in paperback from bloomsbury aca...
Benjamin Ivry

Catholics overtake Protestants in Northern Ireland for the first time

statistics released by nisra show that, for the first time, catholics outnumber protestants in northern ireland—the part of the island of ir...
The Catholic Herald

Belgian bishops defy Rome to introduce church blessings for same-sex couples

bishops in belgium have introduced a liturgy for the blessings of same sex couples in defiance of teaching from the vatican. a document issu...
Simon Caldwell