Catholic News

Cafod defends appointment of Christine Allen as director

Allen has criticised Church teaching on contraception, saying it was part of a 'battle' about 'the very nature of church'

Dinners, deliveries and drives: how some Catholics serve up Thanksgiving for the poor

while many will gather for thanksgiving this year around tables filled with food and family, the national council of the u.s. society of st....

Maggie Maslak/CNA

We need an answer to idolatrous nationalism. But don't look to Emmanuel Macron

The way to head off the worst strains of nationalism is to pre-empt them with more humane appeals to legitimate concerns for national identity

Is a man entitled to kill to defend his property from burglars?

is a man entitled to use a gun to defend his property from burglars – and then shoot dead one of these intruders? i found that a difficult m...

A new journal will challenge academic groupthink - and devotees of free speech

The Journal of Controversial Ideas will offend progressives. But let's remember that controversy is not valuable in and of itself

The monsignor who lived at a gentlemen's club

i have dinner at the travellers club in london’s pall mall with an author who has written widely on both the church of england and the royal...

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

The legalisation of abortion may force a bishop to abdicate as prince

one of europe’s strangest church-state relationships may soon come to an end if a catholic bishop is forced to abdicate as co-prince of ando...

Jonathan Luxmoore

The broadcaster ruffling feathers at home and abroad

love him or hate him – and opinion is strikingly divided on that point – raymond arroyo (pictured) is the king of the catholic airwaves. lay...

Michael Warren Davis

Archbishop Scicluna’s return to the Vatican is heartening news

the news that pope francis has appointed the 59-year-old archbishop charles scicluna of malta to the position of adjunct secretary at the co...

Christopher R. Altieri

World news

paradise, united states pope francis prays for victims of wildfires addressing pilgrims in st peter’s square on sunday, pope francis prayed ...