The Catholic Herald, Author at Catholic Herald

The Catholic Herald

Abortion can never be a fundamental right, bishops warn EU politicians

April 10, 2024

The Bishops of the European Union have reiterated their firm opposition ahead of the upcoming vote on 11 April in Brussels on whether to include the right to abortion in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. Decrying the proposition, and the imposing ideologies surrounding it, the European Bishops have reaffirmed that a human being, in any

INTERVIEW: Bishop-elect of Clifton talks about marriage, parenting in a secular world, the pressures faced by priests and much more, including the Church’s greatest asset

April 09, 2024

Pope Francis appointed Rev. Canon Bosco MacDonald as the tenth Bishop of Clifton on 14 March 2024. It followed the Pope on the same day accepting the resignation of the Right Reverend Declan Lang as Bishop of the Diocese of Clifton, one of 22 dioceses in England and Wales. The Catholic Herald subsequently spoke to Clifton’s new bishop-elect on

Catholic participation in UK General Election set to be extremely high due to issues at stake

April 09, 2024

Participation by Catholics in the UK’s next General Election is likely to be particularly high, according to the Catholic Union of Great Britain. A survey of the Catholic Union’s members and supporters found that just over 90 per cent of responders were planning to vote in the upcoming General Election. The figure is significantly higher than

A Father’s Heart: Sometimes Catholic schools need reminding about being Catholic…

April 07, 2024

One of the Herald’s chaplains answers your questions We were delighted when our son Tom was offered a place at our local Catholic academy school. It is over-subscribed, with an excellent academic reputation. However, we are surprised that it seems far less Catholic than his primary school. Mass and prayers don’t seem to feature. Tom

St John Paul II and the Divine Mercy of God

April 07, 2024

THE CHURCH PROCLAIMS the truth of God’s mercy revealed in the crucified and risen Christ, and she professes it in various ways. Furthermore, she seeks to practice mercy towards people through people, and she sees in this an indispensable condition for solicitude for a better and “more human” world, today and tomorrow. However, at no

Feast of Divine Mercy Sunday to be offered up for a ‘hurting world’

April 04, 2024

The Feast of Divine Mercy Sunday is occurring this weekend on 7 April. Celebrated on the first Sunday after Easter, Divine Mercy Sunday focuses on the gift of mercy and love given through Christ’s death, burial and resurrection. “Our goal [is] to show to the contemporary lost man the richness of God’s Mercy, from the

‘The Silencing of Democracy in Nicaragua’: UK Parliament releases findings on scale of oppression by Ortega regime

April 04, 2024

The UK Parliament has released the findings of a report into the oppression of religious leaders, media and political opposition in Nicaragua. “The Silencing of Democracy in Nicaragua” was launched under the auspices of three All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs), to consider the situation in Nicaragua and the ever-growing targeting of anyone critical of the Nicaraguan government.

Ecuador renews its standing as world’s first country consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

April 02, 2024

Ecuador has renewed its historic consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, first carried out 150 years ago. Archbishop Alfredo José Espinoza Mateus of Quito offered a solemn Mass at the start of Holy Week in the Basilica of the National Vow in the Ecuadorian capital, where the original painting showing the consecration of Ecuador

‘A tidal wave of truths’: Thomas Merton on the power of the Mass reliving the crucifixion

March 31, 2024

The Mass wields enormous power through its connection to Christ’s death on the cross, wrote Thomas Merton, the American Trappist monk, writer, theologian and mystic. “O my God, with what might You sometimes choose to teach a man’s soul Your immense lessons!” Merton wrote in his memoir the Seven Storey Mountain about his spiritual journey

BBC to feature St Winefride’s Well in Good Friday broadcast of ‘Pilgrimage’

March 29, 2024

The BBC will tonight screen the first of three hour-long episodes of its series Pilgrimage following seven celebrity pilgrims, of differing faiths and beliefs, on a spiritual journey across North Wales. The sixth series of the BBC2 programme takes the well-known personalities along the North Wales Pilgrim’s Way. The route celebrates Celtic early Christian saints,

£950,000 secured for ‘urgent repairs’ at first Catholic church built in Welsh Valleys

March 28, 2024

This year’s Easter celebrations at St Illtyd’s Catholic Church in Wales have received an additional boost with the church being granted funding for urgent repairs costing nearly a million pounds. The roof at St Illtyd’s Church and Community Centre in Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, has deteriorated at an alarming rate, leading to more and more leaks

One of the Last Supper ‘greats’ arrives at National Gallery in time for Easter

March 28, 2024

Nicolas Poussin’s Eucharist, considered one of the greatest paintings of the Last Supper, has been acquired by the National Gallery in time for Easter. Eucharist (painted around 1637‒40) is one of a cycle of seven scenes Poussin did in the second half of the 1630s showing the Catholic Sacraments (those rites through which divine grace is

← 1 2 3 4 … 143 →

Sorry, no search matching search results found. Please try again.