Catholic News

It's too soon to celebrate Maryland's assisted suicide vote

an assisted suicide bill was narrowly defeated in the maryland senate (pictured) last week, ensuring that the measure – which was passed by ...
Jordan Bloom

My 'Scotland's Shame' speech provoked debate, but what changed?

twenty years ago, in august 1999, i made a speech at the edinburgh international festival called “scotland’s shame” arguing that anti-cathol...
Sir James MacMillan

Healing ministry for abuse survivors is suddenly in demand

not without a certain trepidation, i have come to speak at a clergy convention in one of the dioceses of pennsylvania which was the subject ...
Fr Dominic Allain

Letters & emails

pope francis’s unexpected overture sir – michael warren davis (us news analysis, march 22) notes that dozens of us bishops have quietly perm...
The Catholic Herald

The persecution trap: vulnerable Christians are running out of allies

christianity is the largest faith in a world of thriving religions. it’s hard sometimes to feel that since the mental picture that grips mos...
John O'Sullivan

The Spanish Church remains a force to be reckoned with

when spain’s bishops’ conference revealed a recent 24 per cent rise in priestly ordinations, the unexpected news offered a reminder that the...
Jonathan Luxmoore

Is Britain making Christianity a hate crime?

a catholic official in scotland last week publicly raised the prospect that the faithful might soon be breaking the law if they profess chur...
Simon Caldwell

How Lucetta Scaraffia lost the battle over the Vatican women's magazine

a kerfuffle erupted last week when the editor of the vatican newspaper’s monthly women’s magazine supplement abruptly quit, claiming she wou...
Christopher R. Altieri

World News: From Santiago to Shijiazhuang

vancouver $35,000 fine for criticising transgender politician christian activist bill whatcott has been ordered to pay $35,000 (£20,000) in ...
The Catholic Herald

The best of the web: Our Lady's requests, papal errors and Syrian refugees

how to return our lady's care for us at the hermeneutic of continuity, fr timothy finigan urged catholics to “care for” our lady. “we cannot...
The Catholic Herald