Catholic News

A survival guide for teenage girls

teenage girls are kind of a mess, according to the telegraph. in britain more than one in three girls aged 14 to 15 suffers from anxiety or ...
Simcha Fisher

The civil rights leader who admired Stalin

w.e.b. du bois by bill v mullen, pluto press, £14.99 when w.e.b. du bois died in august 1963 he was, writes bill mullen, a “hero to friends”...
Jonathan Wright

Searching for utopia, with limits

when i was a child there was a popular song whose chorus repeated this line: “everyone is searching for utopia.” and we all are. every one o...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser

Rita Ora to sing for Pope Francis on eve of Mother Teresa's canonisation

The singer will help celebrate the Blessed's Albanian heritage in a concert at St Peter's Basilica
Staff Reporter

Catholic missionaries choose to stay in South Sudan despite attack on foreign aid workers

South Sudanese troops launched the brutal attack in mid-July in a Juba hotel
Catholic News Service

Turkey gives early release to man convicted of murdering priest

Witnesses say 16 year-old Oguzhan Akdin shouted 'Allahu Akbar' while he shot the priest twice in the head
Catholic News Service

Morning Catholic must-reads: 31/08/16

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

Syrian patriarch fears Christianity is being wiped out in Middle East

Patriarch Aphrem II of the Syriac Orthodox Church has urged Western governments to tighten border controls to curb movement of terrorists
Susan Byron

Former Vatican official begins prison sentence for leaking confidential documents

Mgr Lucio Vallejo Balda was convicted of leaking documents to Italian journalists
Catholic News Service

French minister: 'We are at war with an enemy trying to pit Muslims against non-Muslims'

France's Interior Minister is mounting a bid to unite Muslims and non-Muslims in France as tensions rise following the 'Burkini ban'
Associated Press