Catholic News

Why New Atheism stopped fighting Christianity

Two decades ago, New Atheism was raging against Christianity. Today, it is more often a sympathiser

Clericalism, hierarchy and the myth of co-governance

The Church’s struggle to define synodality is increasingly entangled with a poorly defined critique of authority

Why I am not a Catholic priest: Deus vult

Gavin Ashenden, former continuing Anglican bishop and convert, explains why he chose not to be ordained in the Catholic Church

Ten women championing the pro-life message

As abortion laws expand and protections for the unborn are stripped away, women across the world are leading the fight to defend human life from conception to natural death

What the Church must do in Venezuela

With United States military intervention leaving Venezuela in a precarious position, the Catholic Church may once again be called upon to fill a moral and institutional vacuum

The Catholic Henry Manning at 175: greatness, grief, and a misunderstood conversion

One hundred and seventy-five years after his reception into the Catholic Church, Henry Manning remains one of the most formidable and most maligned figures of Victorian religious life

Can animals have Catholic funerals? One of the Herald’s chaplains answers your questions

Our chaplain answers your question: why does the Church not offer funeral rites for pets?

Archbishop Laterza was right about feminism

Archbishop Laterza caused a media storm with his comments about freedom, but for Catholics they should come as no shock

Deepfake pornography and my experience of digital violation

When AI systems generate pornographic deepfakes without consent, the damage is not artificial. For Samantha Smith, the Grok scandal exposes how pornography has reshaped our understanding of human dignity

When Europe’s churches burn

The destruction of the Vondelkerk stands as a sign of Europe’s diminishing confidence in the inheritance it once laboured to preserve