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What is the Catholic take on cryptocurrency?

earlier this month, a conference held in valley forge, pennsylvania, brought together ideas from two seemingly distant worlds. the first-eve...

Karl Gustel Warnberg

Is Catholicism in danger of becoming trendy?

as another social media 'influencer' seeks to join the church, karl gustel warnberg looks into the fascination with catholicism in our cultu...

Karl Gustel Warnberg

Own goal: the Church of England and the World Cup Final

with the world’s eyes on qatar, there’s a huge rumpus brewing in the clergy circles i move in – both face-to-face and on social media – abou...

Jeremy Haselock

The Synod can never achieve its aim of making the Church 'Catholic in a different way'

bishop georg bätzing, the head of the german bishops’ conference (dbk), has explained what he wants the german synodal path to ach...

Liberals are wrong to push for the ordination of women

i was once in conversation with a man so desperately concerned with women’s rights that he soon put me in my place for defending the male pr...

Katherine Bennett

How 'victimhood' is destroying the Church

a misguided quest for equality in the church is driving us further and further away from god , writes gavin ashenden as with chess, so with ...

In football, we find 'a simple version of the great quest for salvation'

the world cup began on sunday.  i love football as much as the next woman, but i do have some interest in this tournament: my brot...

Katherine Bennett

The feast of Christ the King and the end of political life

the difficulty of reconciling christian faith with political life is as old as christianity itself. perhaps the most  explicit  qu...

Synodality – an exercise in misreading St John Henry Newman and 'Lumen gentium'

one consequence of writing for the catholic herald on the synodal process is that it seems to make some people excitably angry. when socrate...

Welsh government's aggressive attack on childhood innocence

the battle against compulsory sex education for minors ought to be of major concern to all of us who care deeply about protecting the innoce...