Catholic News

The Pope's in-flight press conference didn't get the attention it deserved

when it comes to news from the pope’s in-flight press conference en route to rome from panama last week, his discussion of the “inflated exp...
Christopher R. Altieri

The Church is leading the battle against human trafficking

three years ago police in lancashire noticed that among an influx of romanians was a man called gabriel razvan ursu, a career criminal with ...
Simon Caldwell

Excommunication breakdown: Why Catholics can't agree about Cuomo

without a doubt, the most evocative moment in catholic cinema is the excommunication scene from becket. richard burton, playing thomas becke...
Michael Warren Davis

Asia Bibi's exoneration is good news for other victims of the blasphemy law

asia bibi has, at long last, triumphed in her search for justice. when the supreme court of pakistan last week threw out a challenge against...
John Pontifex

Germany's Christian Democrats are about to liberalise the abortion laws

the german government has reached a compromise on liberalising the country’s abortion law. health minister jens spahn of the christian democ...
Jon Anderson

Why Anglo-Catholicism appeals to millennials

"twentysomethings are flocking to anglo-catholic services" shouted a headline in the times above an article featuring my church, st bartholo...
Marcus Walker

The Pope's Abu Dhabi trip has vindicated Benedict XVI's Regensburg lecture

pope francis made history this week when he became the first catholic pontiff to visit the united arab emirates – which is to say, the arabi...
Sohrab Ahmari

Duterte is exploiting the bishops' relative weakness

last weekend the philippines was engulfed by rumours that the country’s mercurial president, rodrigo duterte, had died. the 73-year-old had ...
The Catholic Herald

Latin is the true language of love

since next week we mark the feast of st valentine – a priest and physician in rome whose cult came to be associated with love because of the...
Mary Kenny

Letters & emails

obesity, genes and st thomas aquinas sir – mary kenny (comment, february 1) says that a new report sheds light on the long-running deba...
The Catholic Herald