3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (328+ words) The Catholic Herald We value your privacy - Description Cloudflare sets this cookie to track users across sessions to optimize user experience by maintaining session consistency and providing personalized services - Description CookieYes sets this cookie for consent solution management. - Description This…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (434+ words) The bishops of Scotland have urged politicians to reject an “extreme abortion law” following the leaking of a Scottish National Party conference draft agenda. The leaked agenda included a motion calling for Scottish law to be changed to decriminalise women…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (396+ words) Whatever one makes of the AfD, 43.8 per cent can no longer plausibly be described as a protest confined to the political fringes. It is here to stay. More than half a million people in the state voted for it. Among…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (358+ words) The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) called for prayer and for Catholics to continue to be instruments of peace in a broken world in a statement marking the 25th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks. “As we prayerfully remember…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (492+ words) “What,” I asked myself, “would a thoughtful person who was totally ignorant of the Christian religion make of the language and imagery of ritual blood sacrifice that pervades Christian theology and worship?” Our contemporary critic might (with understandable indignation) ask,…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (792+ words) A prominent cardinal expert on Church history has warned that the current style of synod being promoted in the Church is partly inspired by Protestantism and is part of the “growing secularization of the understanding of the Church.” Cardinal Walter…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (524+ words) Forced from their church by an earthquake two months earlier, 62 youths from a small mountain community in Venezuela gathered outdoors to receive the sacrament of Confirmation. The celebratory Mass was presided over by Bishop Pablo Modesto González Pérez of La…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (522+ words) The president of the Pontifical Academy for Life has argued that Catholics can support an assisted suicide law if it is an alternative to more permissive laws. Speaking to the news outlet of the Italian bishops’ conference, Archbishop Renzo Pegoraro…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (292+ words) The Catholic Herald We value your privacy - Description Cloudflare sets this cookie to track users across sessions to optimize user experience by maintaining session consistency and providing personalized services - Description CookieYes sets this cookie for consent solution management. - Description This…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (823+ words) In line with the Vatican’s secret deal with China, a new bishop of Chongqing was consecrated for the see today, after having been elected by the state-church in April. As announced by the Holy See Press Office on September 8, Andrea…...