Catholic News

Rebellion or submission: Why are millennials flocking to convents?

the supercomputer that generates trend pieces about millennials has gone haywire. having been fed a steady diet of breezy reportage about th...

Is Viganò overstating his case?

last summer’s celebrity ecclesiastical whistleblower, archbishop carlo maria viganò, is back in the news. on july 3, lifesite published...

Christopher R. Altieri

World news: from Londrina to London

louisville, kentucky archbishop diagnosed with cancer archbishop joseph kurtz of louisville, the former president of the us bishops’ confere...

Meanwhile: Why Ann Widdecombe wasn't posted to Rome

in 2010, the former tory minister (and now catholic herald columnist) ann widdecombe was offered a new job: david cameron asked he...

The best of the web: America's African priests, a new religion, and leaving Orthodoxy

how african vocations are helping america at quartz africa , lekan oguntoyinbo reported on “a growing trend in the catholic church in americ...

Overlooked: Indian priests defy cardinal

what happened? the divisions among india’s syro-malabar priests have been laid bare, after cardinal george alencherry, the leader of the syr...

First impressions can be misleading. Just ask St Alexius

on the heights of rome’s aventine hill, between the basilica churches of sant’anselmo and santa sabina and near to the gated grounds of the ...

Fr John Zuhlsdorf

An old-fashioned whodunit – without the class and wit

mystery fans will recall their favourite husband and wife teams: tommy and tuppence, lord peter and harriet, and, especially from film, nick...

Letters & emails

the newman cause’s forgotten heroes sir – the debt of gratitude owed to fr gregory winterton cong orat and mgr dr francis davis in thei...

The Catholic Herald

How the Israel Folau case is dividing Australia – and the Church

not a day passes in australia without hearing the latest in the saga of israel folau, the sporting superstar sacked by rugby australia (ra) ...