Catholic Church

Queen receives new apostolic nuncio to Britain

the queen received the new apostolic nuncio last week as he began his tenure in britain. the vatican appointed archbishop edward joseph adam...

Tributes to Catholics killed in terror attack

the spanish government has paid tribute to a catholic man who died trying to defend a woman from a knife-wielding terrorist. ignacio echever...

Bishops give Pope a list of slain protesters

venezuela’s bishops have delivered a letter to pope francis calling their government a dictatorship and including a list of those killed in ...

Cardinal: attacks on Benedict are diabolical

cardinal robert sarah has hit out at critics of benedict xvi, accusing them of “vulgarity and baseness” in their responses to the former pop...

‘Signs of torture’ found on body of dead bishop

medical investigators have found “signs of torture” on the body of a cameroonian bishop who died in mysterious circumstances. catholic leade...

Soviet-era martyr to be beatified

a lithuanian archbishop who was murdered with a lethal injection after 16 years in prisons and labour camps will become the first catholic m...

In brief

vietnamese bishops criticise religion law vietnam’s bishops have criticised a new law regulating religion in the country, saying that religi...

Can Catholics trust the DUP?

as the catholic herald went to press, it was unclear whether theresa may would formalise a deal with the democratic unionist party (dup). su...

Matthew Walther: Why I’ll never doubt the Devil’s existence

partly because i revere the history of that noble order of priests deliciously described by an unsympathetic observer as “inflexible in noth...

Matthew Walther

Why we’re struggling to defeat extremism

isis recruits are often portrayed in the west as having been ordinary people prior to some sudden moment of radicalisation, shortly before t...