Catholic News

Suddenly Amish: why the Amish have got it right

TLC’s Suddenly Amish offers a rare glimpse into the Amish way of life which offers some lessons for a burned-out modern world.
Thomas Edwards

How Georges Lemaître’s year in Cambridge led to the Big Bang


Georges Lemaître came to Cambridge for a single year which would shape the emergence of Big Bang cosmology and change physics forever
Samuel McKee

Cardinal Brenes and Christian persecution in Nicaragua

Decades of authoritarian rule have strained relations between Church and State in the Central American country
The Catholic Herald

The poetry and priesthood of Fr Joseph Evans

Gerard Manley Hopkins spoke of “the dearest freshness deep down things.” In the poetry of Fr Joseph Evans new collection of poetry offers a window into the quiet struggle to find God in apparent absence
Jan C. Bentz

Calls for national conversation as UK abortion numbers hit record high

Right To Life is now urging the government and public to confront the growing crisis
The Catholic Herald

Abortions of babies with Down Syndrome on the rise

Pro Life Campaign expresses alarm over newly released statistics
The Catholic Herald

Myanmar’s sham elections

As Myanmar marks five years since its military coup, the junta’s staged elections, mass repression and escalating humanitarian catastrophe expose a crisis
Benedict Rogers

My Journey to Full Communion with the See of Peter

Fr Michael Nazir-Ali shares his journey from Anglican bishop to Catholic priest of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham
Msgr Michael Nazir-Ali

Why New Atheism stopped fighting Christianity

Two decades ago, New Atheism was raging against Christianity. Today, it is more often a sympathiser
Thomas Edwards

Clericalism, hierarchy and the myth of co-governance

The Church’s struggle to define synodality is increasingly entangled with a poorly defined critique of authority
Niwa Limbu