Staff Reporter, Author at Catholic Herald

Staff Reporter

‘It’s not a mortal sin to vote Democrat,’ says diocese

November 04, 2016

San Diego statement came after a parish bulletin warned that Catholics who voted Democrat risked damnation

Cardinal Zen’s plea to Vatican: accepting China’s ‘fake bishops’ would ‘destroy the Church’

November 04, 2016

Cardinal Zen said the Vatican's plan would be a 'surrender'

Cardinal apologises for Church role in ‘forced’ adoptions

November 03, 2016

Cardinal Nichols apologised for the hurt caused to young mothers pressured into giving up their babies

Blessed of the week: Marthe Le Bouteiller (November 4)

November 03, 2016

‘Sister Cider’ Marthe Le Bouteiller was born Aimée-Adèle Le Bouteiller in 1816. She grew up in the village of Percy in Normandy. Her father died when she was young, so she helped to run the family farm and took an extra job as a housemaid in order to support her mother. In 1841 she paid

Psychiatrists can’t explain demonic possession, says director of The Exorcist

November 02, 2016

William Friedkin says that 45 years on from the release of his film, there is more acceptance of 'the possibility of possession'

Full text: Pope’s homily at Mass in Malmö

November 01, 2016

'The Beatitudes are the image of Christ and consequently of each Christian,' the Pope said

Full text: Joint Declaration for the 500th anniversary of Reformation

October 31, 2016

Pope Francis and Bishop Munib Yunan, president of the Lutheran World Federation, signed the Joint Declaration at the Lutheran Cathedral of Lund, Sweden