Europe

Terrorist murders sacristan and wounds priest in rampage through Spanish churches

an islamist terrorist rampaged through two catholic churches in southern spain, murdering a sacristan and wounding a priest with a machete. ...
Tom Colsy

Podcast 34: Steve Ray's Personal Pilgrimage

this week dr gavin ashenden talks to steve ray, the acclaimed american author of crossing the tiber and upon this rock , among other titles,...
The Catholic Herald

Pope Francis condemns ‘ideological’ and ‘elitist’ German Synodal Way

in an interview published yesterday, pope francis condemned the german synodal way as elitist, unhelpful and running the risk of bringing id...
Olenka Hamilton

How the gender ideology war is destroying the lives of young girls

julie is 14. she sees gender ideology as a kind of social contagion:  "controversial gender ideology has taken over my school. there's ...
Gavin Ashenden

Irish teacher sacked by school over use of pronouns for transgender pupil

it was announced on friday that irish schoolteacher, enoch burke, was sacked from his job at wilson hospital school, a private church of ire...
Dubhaltach O Reachtnin

The Christian presence in the Holy Land is under threat

the christians of jerusalem – the city at the centre of the world on medieval maps – are now a tiny fraction of the population, just 10,000 ...
Melanie McDonagh

Lebanon church leader calls for repatriation of 1.5 million Syrian refugees

the leader of the maronite church has appealed to the international community to begin the repatriation of 1.5 million syrian refugees from ...
Simon Caldwell

A splash of Spanish sun at the Royal Academy

there’s something almost secretive about the entrance to the royal academy’s spain and the hispanic world: treasures from the hispanic socie...
Ben Stephens

The Lord Camoys: First Catholic Lord Chamberlain since the Reformation

for those with an eye for english religious history there could scarcely have been a more symbolic gesture than tom stonor’s appointment as ...
The Catholic Herald

The enduring power of the Christian funeral

i have heard it said that every funeral, whatever the scale and whatever the setting, ought to be in some sense a confrontation with death. ...
Niall Gooch