Publication: Catholic Herald
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 ...
Non-Catholic Prime Minister Receives Communion at St Peter’s
The Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, received Catholic Communion in St Peter’s Square yesterday, despite not being a Catholic. The 50-year-old former journalist was attending the canonisations of seven new ...
Italian Priest Suspended After Criticizing Vatican II
An Italian parish priest has been suspended from ministry after hosting an online meeting in which he declared that the reforms of the Second Vatican Council were contrary to the ...
Pope Leo Quietly Receives Heretical Nun In Private Audience
On 28 August, Pope Leo XIV received Sister Lucía Caram, an Argentine-born Dominican nun who has lived in Spain for nearly three decades. The encounter was not included in the ...
Mexican Bishop Con-Celebrates Eucharist With Anglican Female Cleric
A retired Mexican bishop has provoked widespread controversy after he celebrated the Eucharist with an Anglican female minister at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. On ...
The Catholic Herald’s Exclusive Interview With Bishop Joseph Strickland
Cardinal DiNardo and the nuncios spoke to me more than once and said, “Stop emphasising the Deposit of Faith so much, and stop speaking in opposition to what is coming ...
Abuse Victim Describes Elite Catholic School As ‘A Paedophiles’ Cafeteria’
One of the victims of Father Michael James Callaghan, a former housemaster at Ampleforth College who was recently found guilty of sexually abusing boys under his care, has spoken out ...
The Church is NOT a Corporation, but the Never-Ending Synod Acts Like One
The Vatican released its latest synod implementation document on Monday, bringing to mind a remark Pope Francis made a few years ago about how the Church is not a large ...
The Synodal Path that Cancelled God has Gone the Wrong Way
The Catholic Church in Germany is undergoing a profound and fiercely contested transformation, and at the centre of this process stands the highly controversial ‘Synodaler Weg’ (Synodal Path). Launched in ...
Cardinal Goh and Archbishop Cordileone Agree: Lifting Restrictions on the TLM Would Help Heal and Unify the Church
From the Catholic Herald: The Cardinal Archbishop of Singapore has defended Catholics who are attached to the traditional Latin Mass. In an interview given to Italian media, Cardinal William Goh ...
Once Again Our Pope Wrestles with ‘Americanism’ and the ‘Subversion of Primary Truths’
“There is not, and there never was on this earth, a work of human policy so well deserving of examination as the Roman Catholic Church.” So wrote Lord Macaulay in the ...
Judgement and Identity: How We Lost Our Grip on Nature, Liberty and the Human Person
Judgement Early in Dostoyevsky’s masterpiece The Devils, a meeting of “incredibly vain” and well-lubricated “new men” is recalled: “They talked about the abolition of the censorship and spelling reform…of the ...
BRAVO! Pope Leo Removes Paglia As Head Of John Paul II Institute
Pope Leo XIV has appointed Cardinal Baldassare Reina as grand chancellor of the Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences, the Holy See has announced. Born ...
A Lion in the Chair of Peter: Will Pope Leo XIV Heal, Resist, or Appease?
The election of a new father in God reconfigures the Catholic Church. The Church is part institution and, with a father in God, part family; a symbiosis of two different ...
Becciu Alleges New Evidence Proves Misconduct in Vatican ‘Trial of the Century’
The Vatican’s “trial of the century”, which ended in December 2023 with guilty verdicts against Italian Cardinal Angelo Becciu and eight other defendants for financial crimes, is back in the ...
Head Of Jesuits Claims They Have Learned From Their Mistakes With The Rupnik Sexual Abuse Case
In a conversation with the press earlier this week, the Venezuelan Jesuit superior general, Fr Arturo Sosa, acknowledged that his order had been “blind” to abuses committed by Rupnik, the ...
BRAVO! Lourdes Bishop Covers-Up Rupnik Art
The Bishop of Tarbes et Lourdes has ordered that the mosaics created by Marko Rupnik on the two side doors of the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in France ...
New Boss of Catholic Charities in Washington State War-Games Transitioning From Government Dependency to Charitable Contributions
As Jilma Meneses settles into her role at the helm of Catholic Charities of Western Washington, she says her top priority is to establish the organisation’s sustainability plan for the ...
Virtue Over Individualism Leads To True Flourishing
In a recent ethics lesson, I introduced a class to the concept of Virtue Ethics. Not all of my pupils were entirely convinced, something which shouldn’t have surprised me given ...
