Catholic Church

three priests have been kidnapped and killed in mexico in just a few days, raising the death toll of clergy murdered in the country to 15 in...

Staff Reporter

bishop thomas olmsted of phoenix, arizona, has said that pope francis’s exhortation amoris laetitia preserves papal teaching that bars commu...

Staff writers

the bishops of alberta and the northwest territories have issued pastoral guidelines for clergy dealing with catholics who are considering e...

Staff writers

for some catholics it must have felt like a flashback to 1968. last week, 149 academics issued a statement publicly challenging church teach...

Madeleine Teahan

on july 26, i announced my decision to join the catholic church. hours earlier, a pair of jihadists had attacked a church in france and murd...

Sohrab Ahmari

a general congregation meeting of the jesuits is always a major event. but this year’s, the 36th in history, is unique in a number of respec...

David Inczauskis SJ

for the past week, i have been sequestered at the ateneo pontificio regina apostolorum in rome, an institution about five miles west of st p...

Bishop Robert Barron

everyone now has heard of momentum, the successful grassroots organisation which many believe (and some fear) is taking over the labour part...

Mary Kenny

communion for the remarried isn’t new sir – in the hope of helping to heal the rift between those who follow the thinking of pope francis on...

The Catholic Herald

six hundred years ago three men rode into what is now the german lakeside town of konstanz, each claiming to be the pope. the endless wrangl...

Michael White