Catholic News

Mark Wahlberg planning biopic of ex-boxer who became a beloved priest

The actor is teaming up with director David O Russell on a screenplay about Fr Stuart Long's life

In Germany, no one cares about hate crime directed at Christians

A play depicts a family campaigner as a zombie whose eyes are poked out. This is about more than one person's good name

Francis Phillips

Morning Catholic must-reads: 23/09/16

A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church

Cardinal pleads for the life of kidnapped priest in Mexico

The kidnapping came just a day after two other clergymen were found murdered

Associated Press

Pope tells journalists: do not let your words be used as a weapon

If a person is unjustly slandered, said Francis, they can be 'destroyed forever'

Assisi has run its course. Something more daring is called for

Peaceful people gather to pray for peace – it won't sway those in favour of violence

Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith

How America’s progressives unleashed ‘moral chaos’

Book review: A shocking cultural collapse has occurred among America's poor. RR Reno points the way to renewal

China’s evil secret

A Miss World contestant is exposing a practice that the communist regime doesn’t want you to hear about

Benedict Rogers

The cost of unity

next month will mark a new era in relations between the catholic church and the anglican communion. at least, that is what the pope and the ...

The Catholic Herald

The big story of the past seven days

✣   leaked letter restarts ‘amoris wars’ what happened? a former assassin has accused the president of the philippines, president rodri...