Archbishop Georg Ganswein has spent most of the last two decades standing next to the person with the microphone, in his service as an aide to both Pope emeritus Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. But a ...

From April 2021 to date, two bishops, one seminarian and more than 90 priests have succumbed to Covid-19. The youngest being 30 years old, who was ordained on 19 April 2020 for the Archdiocese of ...

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito issued a ruling Wednesday extending the court’s temporary pause on all restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone. The extended pause will last for two more days ...

Bethlehem’s main square is bereft its usual festive splendour and twinkling red, green and white lights. Usually bustling this time of year with thousands of global visitors and with Christians ...

A fitting celebration It will be some time before the coronavirus in Britain is under effective control. But eventually it will come, and with it the ability at last to hear Mass and receive the ...

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 Herald. Please join ...

“It is hugely disappointing that so many mothers felt that they could not continue with their pregnancies, and we look forward to a time when women are given the genuine support they need to have ...

Dan Lipinski, one of the few Democrats in Congress to support anti-abortion legislation, has said that the pro-life movement has not given him as much support as he would have hoped. Lipinski told the ...

US President Joe Biden has said that if the "Lord Almighty" tells him to end his run for re-election this November then he will do so – otherwise he is continuing in the presidential contest. His ...

As the abuse crisis deepens and Church officials struggle to reassure laity that they are taking their grievances seriously, some social media users have proposed a radical solution of their own. They ...

Nearly 50 years after Dorothy Day spoke at Pax Christi USA’s first conference in 1973, the organisation has been awarded the inaugural Dorothy Day Peacemaker Award for its work promoting nonviolence ...

In early 1945, a contributor to the Catholic Herald suggested that the city of Coventry could be named for a medieval Catholic religious house. Professor J. R. R. Tolkien, reading this, and having ...