Catholic News

Ex-Man Utd player takes step towards priesthood

a former manchester united player has made his solemn profession as a dominican friar. philip mulryne made five appearances for manchester u...

Cathedral draws protests with first Catholic canon

belfast’s church of ireland cathedral has appointed its first catholic canon in amid protests. while fr edward o’donnell was being installed...

Progressio to close after 75 years

the charity progressio has been forced to close after its funding dried up. martin mcenery, chairman of the charity’s trustees, announced th...

Medics no longer given cash to judge miracles

doctors who judge whether healings should be declared miracles are no longer to be paid in cash under new norms approved by pope francis. th...

Three more priests are murdered in Mexico

three priests have been kidnapped and killed in mexico in just a few days, raising the death toll of clergy murdered in the country to 15 in...

No change on Communion, says US bishop

bishop thomas olmsted of phoenix, arizona, has said that pope francis’s exhortation amoris laetitia preserves papal teaching that bars commu...

Why it’s not 1968 all over again

for some catholics it must have felt like a flashback to 1968. last week, 149 academics issued a statement publicly challenging church teach...

Madeleine Teahan

Colin Brazier: A moment of glory in hard-boiled Manhattan

new york my 48 hours in new york coincide with a security lock-down. on the day before i arrive police shoot and detain a man suspected of p...

My journey from Tehran to Rome

on july 26, i announced my decision to join the catholic church. hours earlier, a pair of jihadists had attacked a church in france and murd...

Pastor Iuventus

chesterton said that journalism is mostly “saying ‘lord jones is dead,’ to people who never knew that lord jones was alive”. i was reminded ...

Pastor Iuventus