Catholic Church

'The Bible is my rehab book': Faith and recovery at the Nehemiah Project

the nehemiah project is a christian rehabilitation programme that works with men to overcome drug and alcohol addictions in the london ...

Aaron Benavides

The Amazon synod has a distinctly German flavour

we're still three months away, and already the chatter around the special assembly of the synod of bishops for the pan-amazon region has rea...

Christopher R. Altieri

World News: from Kinshasa to Katuwapitiya

washington, dc archdiocese tight-lipped on mccarrick payouts the archdiocese of washington has declined to comment on ex-cardinal theodore m...

The week in quotations

"to do everything possible to stop this humanitarian catastrophe" what pope francis asked of syrian leader bashar al-assad st...

Meanwhile: Facebook removes St Augustine's hate speech

st augustine of hippo has been targeted by facebook for ‘‘hate speech’’. two priests quoted the 5th-century saint’s warning a...

The best of the web: Notre Dame, Duterte, and the decline of a godless church

notre-dame’s close call: the inside story the new york times “conducted scores of interviews and reviewed hundreds of documents” for a long ...

The week ahead: Summer fair, prayer for priests, acts of reparation

saturday august 3 is the westminster cathedral summer fair, from 11am to 3pm in the cathedral hall. pimms will be served at this fundraising...

The big story: Cardinal deplores synod document's 'false teaching'

what happened the vatican’s former doctrinal chief has criticised the preparatory document for the amazon synod, claiming that it conta...

It won't be easy to shore up religious freedom

in the decade from 2007 to 2017, religious freedom declined around the world. that is the conclusion of a major new study by the pew re...

The Catholic Herald

God speaks to us in every event of our lives

the problem in the world and in the churches, the american theologian jim wallis suggests, is that perennially conservatives get it wro...

Fr Ronald Rolheiser