Pope Francis

Letters: Pope Francis has 'made an art form of ambiguity' and 'contortions of the mind'

a risky business sir – speaking at world youth day in rio de janeiro in july 2013, pope francis told those gathered there “hagan lio!” in tr...
Catholic Herald Readers

Trump pitches for Catholic vote as Harris snubs Al Smith dinner

new york – amid executives, journalists and current and former political allies and adversaries, former president donald trump used the podi...
John Lavenburg

Cardinal Gregory offers tough advice on the Catholic Dilemma this US election

with less than twenty days to go before the united states presidential election, the cardinal archbishop of washington, dc, has acknowledged...
Elise Allen

University of Notre Dame wants to help steer AI use toward faith-based ethics

the university of notre dame has announced that it intends to develop faith-based frameworks to encourage ethical uses of artificial intelli...
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New York's largest Catholic university cancels Columbus Day

new york’s largest catholic university has decided not to recognise today’s us holiday as “christopher columbus day’’, despite the day tradi...
The Catholic Herald

Starmer replaces historical British paintings at No 10 with 'anti-clerical' Portuguese artist

queen elizabeth i and sir walter raleigh have gone the same way as william ewart gladstone and margaret thatcher at no 10 downing street, th...
James Jeffrey

Pope calls for UN forces in Lebanon to be ‘respected’ as Netanyahu demands their withdrawal

as israel faces mounting international pressure over its assaults on a un peacekeeping unit in lebanon, pope francis has joined the chorus o...
Crux Staff

New Japanese cardinal says Church must press for abolition of nuclear weapons as atomic bomb survivors win Nobel prize

japan’s top catholic prelate, recently named a cardinal by pope francis, has said that the catholic church in the country will not forget wh...
Nirmala Carvalho

A look into the apparently unstoppable Leonardo da Vinci-industrial complex

no name in art sells like leonardo da vinci. even banksy’s pranks and damien hirst’s provocations can’t seem to shake leonardo’s exalted sta...
Elizabeth Lev

Letter from the disaster zone: a bishop on his storm-wrecked diocese in North Carolina

natural disasters are nothing new on the planet. the fact that they are referred to as “natural” begs the question why we are so often caugh...
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