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'Precipitous decline’ in US Catholics levelling off, reports PEW study

a recent study by the pew research center on religion in the us shows that the precipitous decline in the catholic share of the population t...

EU bishops rally behind Ukraine after explosive Trump meeting

the bishops of the european union have rallied in support of the ukrainian people and have urged european institutions to do the same. their...

Fall of the idols: at last the US is reclaiming a culture of sanity

in my february column for the magazine – written prior to the inauguration of president trump and vice president vance – i wondered if the p...

JD Vance acknowledges Pope’s criticism and prays for his recovery

us vice-president jd vance has responded to pope francis’s criticisms of the trump administration's immigration policies in a speech at the ...

Cardinal McElroy snubs Trump, but chats with Biden

moments after stating that he has no current plans to meet with president donald trump, emphasising what he stressed is the intrinsically pa...

Veteran Austrian cardinal criticises President Trump's policies as 'dangerous'

rome – austrian cardinal christoph schönborn has criticised recent policy decisions by united states president donald trump as “dangerous”. ...

The Catholic Herald

The brothers and sisters of Jesus

many catholics feel very anxious about certain passages in the gospels which seem to suggest that, far from preserving her perpetual virgini...

Fr Richard Ounsworth OP

Pope writes to U.S. bishops to deplore President Trump's deportation policy

rome – faced with united states president donald trump’s insistence on a plan of mass deportations, pope francis has published a letter chas...

Pope appoints new Archbishop of Cincinnati and two other new U.S. bishops

new york – in one of three episcopal appointments in the united states announced today, pope francis has appointed a successor to archbishop...

Police officer orders Catholic woman to leave public area because her views are 'offensive'

new video footage shows a police officer demanding a catholic woman walk away from an abortion clinic simply because of what she is known to...