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Number of adult baptisms in France rises again this year as crucifixes are erected across countryside

April 14, 2023

There was significant rise in the number of baptisms at this year’s Easter vigil in France, according to figures published before the Easter Triduum by the French National Service for Catechesis and Catechumenate. This year at the Easter vigil, 5,463 adults received the sacrament of baptism across France, a 21 per cent rise on the

“You keep using that word…” – the dangers of sloganeering

March 01, 2021

The failure of the Church to adapt her policies to the new spirit of liberalism, culminating with Pope Pius IX’s condemnation of “progress, liberalism and modern civilisation” in his 1864 Syllabus of Errors, came to be seen by Catholics in in later centuries as paranoid, mistaken, even embarrassing; but the eradication of Christian values among Europeans was to lead in the next century to atrocities far exceeding those of Jacobin France.

French bishops approve opening of Cause for King Louis XVI’s sister

November 10, 2017

The devoutly religious Madame Elisabeth was killed in the French Revolution

Cardinal Sarah: The new revolutionaries are trying to destroy the Christian family

August 16, 2017

People once again need to rise up like the Vendée Catholics and Royalists, the cardinal added

‘A haunting glimpse of what we lost’: Virgin and Child returns to England after 600 years

December 12, 2016

Masterpiece that survived the Reformation is now on display at the British Museum

What’s inside this week’s magazine?

September 29, 2016

Take a look inside this week's Catholic Herald

My mother was advised to abort me, says Cardinal Burke in new book

July 25, 2016

The cardinal said the devil tries to sow doubt in Catholics' minds about defending human life publicly

Books blog: The author who walked from France to Italy in honour of Hilaire Belloc

March 22, 2016

Jim Malia was inspired by Belloc's outspoken Catholicism

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