Catholic News

Rarely has a Vatican official spoken so bluntly on abuse

as spring 2019 turned into summer, journalists, media relations professionals and communications experts gathered for four days in st peters...

Christopher R. Altieri

World news: from Minneapolis to Mumbai

minneapolis knights of columbus volunteered for 76m hours the knights of columbus volunteered for 76 million hours and gave $185 million in ...

Meanwhile: Incense shortage?

bad news for sacristans this week: we could be facing an incense crisis, as the number of boswellia trees plummets. as a report in the churc...

The best of the web: Cathedrals, the Elgin Marbles, and junk news

what cathedral installations reveal at father ed’s blog, fr ed tomlinson asked why anglican cathedrals are putting tourist attractions in th...

Overlooked: Renewed pressure on Chinese priests

what happened? chinese clergy are coming under renewed pressure, despite the vatican’s attempts to find a middle ground, according to report...

The big story: US deportee dies in Iraq

what happened? jimmy aldaoud, a catholic who was deported to iraq despite never having lived there and speaking no arabic, has been found de...

Divine understanding

we often hear biblical scholars speak of god’s self-emptying in the incarnation, of christ’s burying himself into anonymity, and of god’s pa...

Fr Ronald Rolheiser

The Catholic naval hero descended from St Thomas More

today he is little remembered. but admiral sir henry harwood made a crucial early contribution during the second world war: he injected a vi...

David Twiston Davies

Letters: Being 'born again' cannot just be an emotional experience

to be born again, we need sacraments sir – with the greatest respect, i have to differ quite sharply from fr rolheiser’s article on the mean...

The Catholic Herald

Brexit ire has replaced Catholic-bashing in Ireland

it has been well documented that brexit has worsened relations between britain and ireland. there’s a tendency, among the more brexity membe...