Priesthood

The Diocese of St Gallen’s “Ich bin dabei” campaign includes a poster asking whether Catholics should help pave the way for the election of “the first female pope”

Thomas Colsy

A feminist group has called on Pope Leo XIV to address what it describes as discrimination against women in the Church

Thomas Colsy

Scott-Vincent Borba’s rejection of his former lifestyle offers a striking contrast to forms of Catholicism that seek to affirm rather than confront sin

Jacqueline O'Hara

St John Henry Newman insists that the preacher is moved not by ambition, power or worldly success, but by the hidden motive of religion

St John Henry Newman

A former parishioner recalls the Oxford Oratory priest whose patient teaching helped shape her Catholic faith

Hannah Chegwyn

Arguments for women’s ordination often assume a power the Church says she does not possess and has never claimed to exercise

Luke Collins

Falling, a new drama for Channel 4, presents the violation of priestly and religious vows as the core tension of a forbidden love story

The Catholic Herald

New campaigns and pastoral appeals for vocations are emerging across England and Wales as some dioceses face another year without ordinations

The Catholic Herald

As the Ordinariate marks its anniversary, celebration gives way to clarification of its liturgical identity following unfounded rumours

Fr Mark Elliott Smith

Parish life is taking on a renewed sense of reverence, as recent data points to a more conservative generation of younger priests

Jacqueline O'Hara