Catholic News

Violent attacks on Christians in Pakistan "co-ordinated and meticulously planned"

pakistan - evidence emerging from pakistan’s jaranwala district is pointing towards a comprehensive attempt to force the ejection of each an...
John Pontifex

Renewed crackdown on Christians in Iran underway

britain is an increasingly impoverished society: spiritually and financially. still, anyone born here has won the historic lottery relativel...
Georgia L. Gilholy

Mass exodus as mobs burn churches and homes in Pakistan

up to 15 church buildings have been attacked and hundreds of christian homes destroyed after extremists went on the rampage in pakistan. chr...
John Pontifex

Unemployed Gänswein returns to spotlight and jokes he is looking for work

german archbishop georg gänswein, the former private secretary to the late pope benedict xvi, has made his first public appearance since bei...
Elise Allen

US Catholic couple sues after being blocked from adopting children due to religious beliefs

new york – a massachusetts catholic couple has sued the state, alleging that they were blocked from adopting children through the state’s fo...
John Lavenburg

Pope says maintaining Church teaching on ordination and marriage not a sign of closed-mindedness

papal plane – returning from lisbon on sunday, pope francis insisted that maintaining the church's traditional teachings on ordination and m...
Elise Ann Allen

Pope offers comfort to Portuguese church facing secularisation in aftermath of abuse scandal

lisbon – in the wake of a devastating clerical sexual abuse scandal in a country already buffeted by secularisation and increasing pluralism...
Elise Ann Allen

Summer reading at the Catholic Herald

the herald’s guide to which books to pack when heading off for the summer. whether they’re packing their passports or just looking forward t...
The Catholic Herald

The Church did not fail Sinéad O'Connor, modern Ireland did

in its 2022 report on human rights in afghanistan, amnesty international summarises the situation which would not be unfamiliar to most peop...
Dualta Roughneen

The closure of the Franciscan Friary in Athlone is symptomatic of the wider loss of religion in Ireland

by ronan doheny in recent years, ireland has seen religious orders close community houses across the country due to lack of vocations. these...
The Catholic Herald