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Vatican breaks silence on Trump: will 'seek dialogue', says key papal aide

the vatican will “seek dialogue” with president-elect donald trump, attempting to put aside previous conflicts between pope francis and trum...

Everything up in the air as bitterest of US elections begins

austin, texas - both yesterday and today there been nothing about the us election on the united states conference of catholic bishops (usccb...

The 'horrifying', 'brutal' and unspoken truth of what assisted suicide is really like

rather predictably, lord carey of clifton, the former archbishop of canterbury, has popped up in the debate on assisted suicide to repeat a ...

Opening the Bible for spiritual growth

there are many and various ways for us to approach and encounter god. there is no one means of prayer has a monopoly over our journey to god...

Fr Jeffrey Kirby C

Letter from the Editor: Assisted suicide and broader change

much has happened since the catholic herald last landed on doormats, as my predecessor william cash writes in this month’s diary. i tra...

Serenhedd James

St Birinus Music Festival to celebrate Allhallowtide with the music of 'commemoration' – Gregorian chant

a musical performance is strikingly akin to an act of commemoration. it is the job of musicians to commune with composers who, more often th...

Ryan Wigglesworth

Synod displayed Catholicism's uncanny ability to frustrate just about everyone

from the beginning, one of the most persistent charges against pope francis’s synod of bishops on synodality, which got underway in 2021 and...

The Genius of St Mark: A brilliant – but often misunderstood – Gospel gem

this september we return, after our excursion into the gospel of st john, to a sequential reading of st mark’s gospel, picking up at the beg...

Fr Richard Ounsworth OP

Canada's Gen X cardinal-elect says younger red-hat cohort brings 'perspective of engagement'

while cardinal-elect francis leo’s upcoming promotion from archbishop of toronto isn’t necessarily a surprise – a cardinal has led the archd...

Father of liberation theology and former nemesis of Vatican dies at 96

in february 2014, a scene unfolded in rome that struck many observers as akin to the end of history. a conservative german prefect of the co...