Life

Why Catholics need to build a more attractive culture

Catholics are often effective at critiquing modern culture, but less confident in creating an attractive alternative rooted in beauty, truth and goodness
Delphine Chui

Beyond eros: recovering the fuller meaning of love

Christianity offers a richer vision of love than modern culture’s fixation on romance, one rooted in friendship, sacrifice and willing the good of the other
Delphine Chui

Forming hearts of charity in an age of confusion

The challenge of forming hearts of charity in children amid a culture increasingly marked by isolation and loss of meaning
Dominic Perrem

California’s First Lady and the Rightward drift of young men

Clips of Jennifer Siebel Newsom have sparked renewed debate about masculinity, parenting and politics
Jacqueline O'Hara

Death in the Catholic imagination

David Hahn reflects on the Catholic understanding of death, contrasting it with a sanitised secular view that pays little attention to its eternal consequences
David Hahn

The interior life in an age of outrage

In a culture animated by suspicion and online indignation, Christians are called to recover the quiet, integrating power of the interior life
Noelle Mering

The toxic war on human fertility

The Church is curiously silent about industrial microplastics and endocrine disruptors that poison our food and drink
Thomas Colsy

A land of no cathedrals: how the Cambodian Church came back from 'Year Zero' of Khmer Rouge

despite being a former french colony, cambodia has no cathedrals. the khmer rouge destroyed most church buildings soon after seizing control...
Ray Cavanaugh

Family attributes toddler's recovery after near-drowning to Cardinal Pell's intercession

the parents of a toddler who miraculously survived near-drowning in the family swimming pool have attributed his recovery to the intercessio...
Thomas Edwards

US State Department 'monitoring’ prosecution of woman in abortion facility ‘buffer zone’ case, 'concerned' about free speech in Britain

a bureau within the us state department said on sunday it is “monitoring” the abortion facility “buffer zone” case of a dorset woman, ahead ...
The Catholic Herald