Catholic News

Eleventh Sunday of the Year

A meditation on this Sunday's readings: 2 Samuel 12:7-10; Galatians 2:16 & 19-21; Lk 7:36-8:3

Bishop David McGough

Football is not the new religion

... it just extends the old one, says Patrick West, who looks at Christianity's influence on the game ahead of the World Cup

'Behold the Heart that has so loved men'

Sister Janet Fearns surveys the history of the Sacred Heart

The Catholic Herald

A Londoner with the gift of the gab

The new Archbishop of Southwark talks to Anna Arco about secularism, assisted suicide and returning to his home diocese

Cold War martyr beatified in Warsaw

A martyred Polish priest was praised for standing against the oppressive forces of Communism when he defended human rights in his sermons during a beatification Mass

Jonathan Luxmoore

PM puts Lord Patten in charge of papal visit

David Cameron appoints former governor of Hong Kong to key role ahead of Pope's visit

David V Barrett

Time to stop the Christian exodus from the Middle East, says Vatican

The plight of Christians in the Middle East is threatened by an "extremist current" of "political Islam" and is being ignored by the world, the Pope has said ahead of a new Vatican report

French nun said her life 'changed totally' since she was healed

Sister Marie Simon-Pierre was cured of aggressive Parkinson's disease after her order prayed to John Paul II

In photos: twenty-five years in the life of the Catholic Church

A photographic timeline tracing twenty-five years of the Catholic Church, from the final Jubilee of John Paul II to the election of Pope Leo XIV

Catholics and 'eucharistic' Dorito chips collide as US election gets even whackier

there are no signs that this us presidential election campaign is going to get any less zany, fraught and often just downright baffling. amo...