May 14, 2015 - Catholic Herald

Seattle archdiocese ‘refused to comply’ with sexual abuse investigation, Washington attorney general claims

May 11, 2024

Amid a campaign for the governorship, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced on 9 May that he has taken legal action against the Archdiocese of Seattle, alleging that it has “refused to comply” with his investigation into whether the three Washington dioceses used charitable funds to cover up allegations of child sex abuse by clergy.

Catholic Herald Institute hosts inaugural symposium to examine recent Synod in Rome

May 11, 2024

The Catholic Herald Institute hosted its inaugural symposium “The Synod: The Room Where it Happened and What Happens Next?” in New York’s Sheen Center for Thought and Culture in Greenwich Village on 18 March. The conversation, the first in the Institute’s “Conversations in the Spirit” series, was moderated by Michael La Civita, director of communications

An exorcist is needed to sort out Eurovision 2024 and Ireland’s troubled contestant

May 11, 2024

Myopia has plagued my family as far back as can be traced. The family vault holds images from the end of the 1800s of women in their forties all wearing glasses. My grandparents’ 10 children and 39 grandchildren all wear glasses. My own children wear glasses. My brother went out with a girl who dumped him once

EXCLUSIVE FROM THE ARCHIVES: Tolkien’s 1945 letter to the Catholic Herald on ‘the Name of Coventry’

May 11, 2024

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 done his research, wrote in to correct the record and share his thoughts on Catholicism’s place in the study of Anglo-Saxon etymology

On Pilgrimage With: Anita Boniface, writer and chaplaincy volunteer

May 11, 2024

Where would you go? A place I’d like to revisit on pilgrimage is Aylesford Priory in Kent. I often went there as a child and young adult with my family and our beloved neighbours Cis and Arthur. Visiting Aylesford planted in me a fondness for church and the Catholic faith at a young age. It’s

Lisbon: Why you should visit this critical trading and spiritual link between Old Catholic Europe, Asia and the New World

May 11, 2024

With five Portuguese cardinals, and at least one future papabile – Cardinal Américo Aguiar, who was responsible for World Youth Day 2023, is still only 50 – Lisbon has become a new spiritual axis of the world, an outward-facing port city that has become something of a focus for Pope Francis’s progressive spiritual mission. In

Abortion vote on 15 May: ‘A time to raise our voices and not lose heart’

May 11, 2024

Bishops rarely comment on Bills in Parliament. Lay Christians, informed by their faith, freely and sincerely adopt different political views and propose different solutions to the practical problems and great challenges of our time. Yet, when the bishops voice “deep alarm” about a legislative measure in Parliament it is a moment when the faithful, and

Priest plunges school into darkness to save children from marauding gunmen

May 10, 2024

The quick thinking of a headteacher helped save the lives of sleeping students after armed extremists stormed a secondary school in Nigeria’s Middle Belt. Fr Emmanuel Ogwuche, principal at Fr Angus Frazer Memorial High School in Makurdi, promptly switched off all the lights in the building after hearing gunshots outside, preventing the terrorists from finding

Pope decries ‘cowardly’ attack on Congo refugee camp

May 10, 2024

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – Pope Francis has condemned a “cowardly attack” on a refugee camp in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The Mugunga camp is home to around 27,000 internally displaced people. The Congolese military accused the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels of carrying out the attack. At least 18 people were killed,

Diocese was justified in firing gay teacher, rules federal appeals court

May 09, 2024

NEW YORK – In a reversal of a 2021 decision, a federal appeals court has ruled that a Catholic school in the Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina, was justified in firing a substitute teacher over his same-sex relationship. Lonnie Billard, the teacher, sued Charlotte Catholic High School and the Diocese of Charlotte in 2017 for

Archbishop Wilson leads over 10,000 school children in a rosary

May 09, 2024

Over 90 Catholic schools across South London and Kent took part in a rosary led by Archbishop John Wilson, as part of the Archdiocese of Southwark’s campaign to encourage young people to pray. Archbishop John led the rosary from Notre Dame Secondary School in Southwark, where he was joined by children from St George’s Cathedral Catholic

Bishop Sherrington ‘deeply alarmed’ by proposed amendments on abortion

May 09, 2024

LEICESTER, United Kingdom – Bishop John Sherrington, who heads the bishops’ conference on life issues, is concerned that proposed amendments in the British Parliament will liberalise the country’s abortion laws. Four amendments have been submitted to the Criminal Justice Bill which relate to the protection of unborn babies and will be debated on May 15.

1 2 3 … 2,895 →