Publication: Catholic Herald
Cardinal Brandmüller: Synodality Partly Inspired By Protestantism
A prominent cardinal expert on Church history has warned that the current style of synod being promoted in the Church is partly inspired by Protestantism and is part of the ...
SSPX And The State Of Necessity: Clarity At Last?
One of the key factors in the entire debate surrounding the episcopal consecrations performed by the Society of Saint Pius X is the state of necessity which the Society invokes ...
Cologne Cardinal: Defining Synodality A ‘Major Challenge’ For Church
Defining synodality is a “major challenge” for the Church, Cologne’s Cardinal Rainer Woelki has said, while also urging parity between the Novus Ordo and the traditional Mass. Cardinal Woelki has ...
Cardinal Roche Says Pope Leo IS NOT Changing Latin Mass Restrictions
Cardinal Arthur Roche has stated that Pope Leo has no intention of changing Pope Francis’ restrictions on the traditional liturgy. In a newly published interview with The Tablet, Cdl. Roche ...
Woman Gives Joint Homily With German Bishop Despite Vatican Ban
In an apparent direct violation of the Holy See’s prohibition, a lay-woman gave a joint sermon during Mass in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising this week. Marking the feast ...
Church Leaders Meet in Rome to Prepare Next Phase of Synod on Synodality
Senior representatives of the Church’s continental ecclesial bodies have gathered in Rome from June 23-25, 2026 for three days of meetings to assess progress in implementing the Synod on Synodality ...
Polish Catholics Denounce Synod Final Document As ‘Deeply Anti-Catholic’
Polish Catholics, led by Dr Artur Dąbrowski, president of Catholic Action of the Archdiocese of Częstochowa, have issued a detailed open letter to priests and synodal participants condemning the Final ...
New Report Suggests the Synod Still Cannot Speak Clearly on Homosexuality
Platforming active dissent from Church teaching on homosexuality while also giving a hat-tip to that same teaching, the latest advisory document from the synod is a textbook case in the ...
Cardinal Ouellet Claims Placing $50 Bill in Woman’s Sweater a “Clumsy Mistake”
Cardinal Marc Ouellet has said it was a “clumsy mistake” to place a $50 banknote inside a woman’s sweater during a hug. Cardinal Ouellet, 81, the former prefect of the ...
America’s Bishops and the Birthright Blind Spot
American Catholics deserve moral clarity regarding the ongoing immigration crisis. Unfortunately, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ amicus brief in Trump v Barbara this week failed to give them ...
“The Pope is Not a Führer”: Cardinal Müller on Ultramontanism
A leading cardinal and former secretary of the Roman Curia has spoken to the Catholic Herald about the state of the Church, the role of the papacy, and how Catholics ...
Lay Catholics React To First Sunday After Bishop’s Altar Rail Ban
In the Diocese of Charlotte, Bishop Michael Martin’s pastoral letter of December 17, 2025 ordered that altar rails, kneelers and prie-dieux be removed from public Masses by Friday, January 16 ...
Posture Matters: The Case for Altar Rails
Unfamiliar outsiders are probably bemused to see a subject as ostensibly mundane as a piece of church furniture become a flashpoint. Of course, it is not just about a thigh ...
The Catholic Church Needs Its Own COVID Inquiry
The latest conclusions of the national Covid Inquiry have hit the headlines, and those who supported lockdown feel vindicated. An expert-led process costing £200 million has broadly endorsed the government’s ...
Leaked Recording of Vatican Official Discussing FBI Probe Suggests Money Laundering
The Vatican is facing mounting questions after the publication of a leaked audio recording in which Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu, an official of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith ...
New USCCB President Identifies Immigration as a “Burning Issue”
How can anyone take these bishops seriously after they accepted billions in taxpayer funds helping illegal aliens invade our nation? Archbishop Paul Coakley has stressed that the plight of migrants ...
Cardinal Fernández’s Vatican Post has Caused Unnecessary Scandal and Disunity
The theological eruption caused by Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández in early November was entirely predictable and serves to highlight the current sorry state of the office he leads. It has ...
USCCB Under Scrutiny After Report Links Church Funds to Pro-Abortion, LGBT Groups
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has been accused of indirectly funding organisations that actively promote abortion, contraception and gender ideology. A report based on new findings published ...
Italian Bishop Defends Homosexual Love and Practice
An Italian bishop has argued in an interview, which many Catholics are likely to find controversial, that he finds nothing wrong with the practise of homosexuality. Bishop Francesco Savino of ...
Cardinal Müller Warns That Bishops Are Pushing Traditional Catholics Towards The SSPX
Cardinal Gerhard Müller has warned that some bishops are effectively forcing conservative Catholics to stay at home or seek refuge with the Society of Saint Pius X. In a wide-ranging ...
Anathema: Cardinal Cupich Calls Traditional Latin Mass “A Spectacle”
Chicago’s Blase Cupich has asserted that the Traditional Latin Mass was “more of a spectacle rather than the active participation of all the baptised”. In a reflection on the liturgical ...
