US News

Census 2021: the hidden threat to church and state

the shift in religious and christian allegiance within the population was always predicted to arrive around about now, and here it is. sudde...
Gavin Ashenden

Church and state's uneasy relationship

the coercive power of the state is found from the start of the story of our salvation; it’s in the nativity story itself and the feasts that...
Piers Paul Read

Scion of distinguished recusant family

sir simon towneley died on 11 november, aged 100. he was the first catholic to be lord lieutenant of lancashire, in which office he served f...
The Catholic Herald

Russia hits out at Pope for calling ethnic minority soldiers 'cruel'

the russian government has condemned comments made by the pope that some minority groups of soldiers have behaved worse than others in the i...
Olenka Hamilton

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

Suicide rates soar wherever euthanasia or assisted suicide are legalised, reveals study by Anscombe Centre

the numbers of people who commit suicide surge in countries which legalise euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, new research has revea...
Simon Caldwell

Ron DeSantis: a different kind of Catholic President?

two big takeaways emerged from the us midterms. the first was that the democrats were not obliterated by a republican “red wave”. the second...
Ignatius Dean

The US midterms illustrate the deep ambivalence of voters about what issues matter most

the just-completed midterm elections in the united states are a proxy for the deep ambivalence of american voters about what issues matter m...
Ken Craycraft

The enduring confusion of America’s 'Wall of Separation Between Church and State'

new research by pew shows that the us public is as conflicted about the relationship of religion to public life as it always has been, write...
Ken Craycraft

All is not well at the Pontifical Academy for Life

the academy set up to promote catholic doctrine on human life and personal dignity has lost its way entirely, writes  hugh somerville k...
Fr Hugh Somerville-Knapman