The Catholic Herald

Councillor Robert Rigby was elected the new Right Worshipful Lord Mayor of Westminster following a vote at Full Council on May 15th.

Madagascar's influential Catholic bishops' conference – usually loyal to the government – has denounced a new law for the castration for paedophiles.

No-one ever slides up a slippery slope. They only ever go down. Euthanasia invariably involves a descent that is not so much like skidding to the foot of a steep hill as falling from a cliff. In no country in the world has this been quite as dramatic as in Canada.

The essential aspect of this exhibition is in the title: Michelangelo, the last decades. How does genius age? Michelangelo lived to a great age for his time, dying just shy of his 89th birthday. This show deals with his last three decades, give or take a few years. He was summoned just before his 60th birthday to

ROME – The Vatican today rolled out a new expedited procedure for vetting alleged Marian apparitions or other spiritual phenomenon, ruling that they will no longer deemed supernatural, but simply that nothing stands in the way of encouraging devotion. In an introductory presentation of the new norms, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery

As the Philippines moved closer to legalising divorce , a leading Catholic bishop has warned politicians that “divorce weakens the fabric of society.”

Extremists have captured another Catholic priest in Nigeria, bringing the number of clerics kidnapped in the country this year to four.The gunmen who took Fr Basil Gbuzuo have not contacted the Church, according to a statement by Onitsha Archdiocese sent to Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN).Fr Prudentius Aroh, chancellor of the

Harrison Butker is a winner. Literally, in the sense that on 11 February 2024, the young American football player won his NFL team, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Super Bowl. In doing so he also broke the 30-year-old record for the longest field goal in the competition's history.

ROME – Argentine Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, the Vatican’s doctrine czar, has said that despite the broad use of alleged spiritual or mystical experiences to commit and justify abuse in the church, disputes over terminology can muddle prosecution. His perspective may have implications for efforts to prosecute some of the most high-profile and contentious abuse

ROME – Just as Israel continues to deploy its military “hard power” on the Gaza strip, defying international pressure to back down, so too it shows no signs of halting its “soft power” campaign either. On the contrary, Israel is pursuing a relentless war of words against any party it believes guilty of false moral equivalence between terrorism and self-defense, or of trafficking in anti-Semitic tropes.