Catholic News

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...

Young teens ‘more conservative’

british 14- and 15-year-olds are more socially conservative than any generation except the over-70s, researchers have claimed. the study, wh...

Archbishop’s verdict: a liar versus a demagogue

philadelphia archbishop charles chaput has said in his 50 years of voting in us elections, he has never seen the two major parties offer “tw...

Priest who survived gulag is beatified

a polish-born priest who was deported to soviet-ruled central asia and volunteered to stay on and minister to catholics has been beatified. ...

Madeleine Teahan: Help! I'm failing as a godmother

six times a year i turn the page in my diary and feel a stab of remorse. there it is, etched in block capitals: “sam’s birthday next week”, ...

Madeleine Teahan

China’s evil secret

this article contains details which some readers may find disturbing ‘the scalpel cut into the chest and blood gushed out,” recalled an unna...

Benedict Rogers