Tombs encourage meditation on eternity. Nursing homes feel like groaning waystations to the grave. Which may be why so many will let the old people die.

The scandal of elected officials – such as President Biden – who take Communion yet promote views at odds with the Catholic Church must be countered, says Fr Gerald E Murray ...

The congregation stay in their cars during Mass and hear Mass through their radios via closed-circuit transmission. (A PA system, they decided, would not help community relations.) Communion is ...

Islamic militants in Nigeria have killed almost 55,000 Christians in the last 14 years, a new report has said. Since the Boko Haram insurgency began in 2009, a total of 52,250 Christians have been ...

According to newly published data from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the number of hate crimes against Christians in Europe rose sharply in 2020. The OSCE data ...

Areas of Catholic Herald business are still recovering post-pandemic. However, we are reaching out to the Catholic community and readership, that has been so loyal to the Catholic ...

Godda’s rolling hills were covered in forest until the late 1980s, when coal was discovered there. Still rural and remote, the district has coal mines, rice paddies and wheat fields, darted with ...

Solsona, Spain, Sep 8, 2021 / 17:01 pm It has been widely reported that Bishop Xavier Novell Gomà, who resigned as Bishop of Solsona last month, did so to cohabit with a divorcee who writes ...

The feeding of the 5,000 notwithstanding, the founder of Christianity never seemed all that enamoured with large-scale public worship. “ ...

Police have labelled sectarian graffiti found on a Catholic church in Northern Ireland as a hate crime. They are investigating accordingly.

Fr. Adolf Kajpr was a Jesuit priest and journalist who was imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp after publishing Catholic magazines critical of the Nazis. Five years after his liberation from ...

Recovering our sanity. The Decomposition of Man: Identity, Technocracy, and the Church James Kalb Angelico Press, £17, 228 pages I am sitting outside a coffee shop on the main street of Lander ...