Catholic News

Using ‘baby loss certificates’ to paper over cracks of a 'post-truth' world

last week, the british public were presented with two pieces of news that, in another age, might have jarred more noticeably than they have ...
Katherine Bennett

MPs to vote on lowering upper time limit for abortions

mps will be given the opportunity to vote on lowering the abortion time limit in an historic vote that is expected to take place next month....
The Catholic Herald

The perverse ideology that silences good and celebrates evil

this week, the affiliation of a pro-life student society at the university of manchester has been reported across the mainstream press. whil...
Georgia L. Gilholy

Pakistani bishop hails court rejection of anti-Christian pogrom whitewash

the president of pakistan’s catholic bishops’ conference has welcomed a supreme court decision to reject a government report into the author...
John Pontifex

Belgian bishops could back women deacons and ending priestly celibacy in a Church more 'present in the digital world'

rome – in the lead up to this year’s closing session of the synod of bishops on synodality, belgian bishops have reportedly opened a nationa...
Elise Allen

Report: 8,000 Nigerian Christians murdered in worst year for Islamist attacks

yaoundé, cameroon – nigeria last year witnessed the bloodiest year of islamist attacks against christians according to a new report. more th...
Ngala Chimtom

Finding hope in the desert: getting lost and discovering the way

the desert experience of the people of israel was a difficult time of testing and penance, of getting lost and discovering the way, as the l...
vivboland

The Glaswegian nuns who called the feminists' bluff on abortion

one hundred and sixty. it's a number etched on sister roseann reddy’s heart. that is the number of babies saved from abortion since the sist...
JamesHastings

A good (Catholic) politician is hard to find in Ireland: John Bruton dies at 76

with politicians in ireland generally feted for their perceived adherence to progressive values and grandiose speeches that garner the affec...
Dualta Roughneen

There is more to Catholic education than environmental issues and social justice

there is certainly an irony in the fact that one issue on which both secular humanists and a certain cohort of catholics can find common cau...
Michael Merrick