Catholic News

The case for St John's assumption

From Ephesus to Augustine to Aquinas, Christian memory preserves an extraordinary claim: that the body of St John the Apostle was never found

What happens when we stop and look at the Crucifix

From Dalí’s Crucifixion to Jung on Ignatius, Dame Rachel de Souza meditates on stillness and meaning

Dame Rachel de Souza

The Guardian’s coverage of Opus Dei treats facts as optional

The report shows how narrative framing and anonymous claims can be allowed to outrun verifiable facts, with papal insinuation used to inflate a limited local dispute into a global Church story

Bishop David Waller on the feast of Stephen

Bishop David Waller, the Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, reflects on what St Stephen’s example teaches us about Christmas

Bishop David Waller

Interview: Cardinal Burke on the liturgy, Christmas, and the conclave

In a Christmas Day interview, Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke speaks about the conclave, the liturgy, and why young Catholics are turning towards tradition

The mince pie as an act of resistance

Mince pies are not just seasonal indulgences. They are relics of medieval Catholic England, survivors of Reformation iconoclasm, and quiet witnesses to a long struggle over faith

Christmas in Gaza

Despite a ceasefire and talk of progress, Christian clergy in Gaza describe a territory still trapped between war and peace

The Catholic Herald

The Nativity stories forshadowed

The apocryphal gospels tell strange tales of the boy Jesus. The canonical Gospels do something far more demanding — and far more true

Henry Wansborough

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