Catholic News

Jimmy Lai should be recognised as a martyr

At 78, sick and imprisoned for his beliefs, Jimmy Lai faces what may amount to a death sentence for exercising freedom of conscience

Benedict Rogers

Why does Europe hate its Christians?

Thousands of attacks on Christians were recorded across Europe last year, exposing a widening gap in how religious hatred is addressed

Diocese of Clifton continues to fund charity promoting same-sex adoption

The diocese is still funding and promoting a former Catholic adoption agency that openly supports same-sex adoption

The Pope is asking the right questions about AI

Pope Leo is clear: no technology, however advanced, can replace conscience or relieve us of the moral burden of being human

A year in reading: my ‘most’ books of 2025

In a series of “most…” categories, Fr Gavan Jennings walks readers through his most memorable reads of 2025

Fr Gavan Jennings

All I want for Christmas is you, not an algorithm

As Christmas songs celebrate love and togetherness, a growing number of people are turning instead to AI “companions” for intimacy and advice

Westminster receives its new archbishop

Pope Leo XIV has appointed a new Archbishop of Westminster, five years after Cardinal Vincent Nichols offered his resignation

The Catholic Herald

Mussolini’s complicated relationship with Catholicism

From militant atheism to the Lateran Pacts, Mussolini’s fraught engagement with Catholicism shaped Fascist Italy and beyond

The pope’s executioner

For centuries, popes ruled territories where capital punishment was publicly carried out, prayerfully prepared for, and theologically defended

Nigeria’s Christians are dying

Despite overwhelming evidence of anti-Christian violence in Nigeria, many continue to deny the religious nature of the crisis

The Catholic Herald