Jasna Góra, Poland’s largest shrine, is providing space for Ukrainians in its pilgrim house.

A British human rights campaigner on Tuesday commemorated the seventh anniversary of the martyrdom of 21 men, known as the Coptic martyrs, by the Islamic State. 

La Conférence des évêques de France (CEF) a présenté, mercredi 27 mars, les résultats 2024 de son enquête annuelle sur les « catéchumènes », ces adultes et adolescents baptisés chaque année le jour...

The bishops cautioned against ‘capitulation to the Zeitgeist.’

Almost two-thirds of people in capital identify as religious compared with 53% in the rest of UK, according to new research

After 11 years, the Catholic Church in central Norway will have a bishop again.

Fr. Jan Macha will be declared blessed in Katowice, southern Poland, on Nov. 20.

In Naples, the blood of St. Januarius remained solid Wednesday, after having liquefied both in May and September this year.

The Vatican's failure to laicize a bishop who abused his own nephews could overshadow Pope Francis' trip, the bishops' conference secretary has said

Stuart Rogerson’s brief, poignant reflections on faith and mortality are reaching thousands of people around the world.

An Italian priest was excommunicated Tuesday for calling Pope Francis a "usurper" in his New Year's Eve homily marking the first anniversary of the death of Francis's predecessor Benedict XVI. (ANSA)

Modern society is formulating an “anti-Christian creed” and punishing those who resist it with “social excommunication,” Benedict XVI has said in a new biography, published in Germany May 4.

Cardinal Seán P. O’Malley, who received praise and some mild criticism over his work to right the church both financially and spiritually, says he is likely to leave his post sooner rather than later.

According to my calculations, this is the 817th issue of the Catholic Herald that I’ve edited. It is also the last. After almost 16 years as editor, I’m passing my swivel chair to the talented Dan...

Pope Francis blessed a statue of the Immaculate Virgin Mary of the Miraculous Medal at the end of his Wednesday general audience.

Trouble is in sight for Pope Francis. The victims of sexual and power abuse by Father Marko Rupnik, the ex-Jesuit Slovenian artist, protected by many cardinals and expelled from the Order founded...

The pope was speaking at “The General State of the Birth Rate” event in Rome.

Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali has joined the personal ordinariate.

The Catholic Church in Belgium reported Wednesday a rise in Mass attendance in 2019 compared to the previous year. 

The pope recalled his remark during a conversation with the editors of Jesuit journals.

The DDF’s Monday press release seems to recognize that it has caused global confusion

"Fiducia supplicans" has effects on ecumenism

Pope Francis sent a message marking the publication’s centenary.

Fr. Michael Nazir-Ali was ordained at a Mass at an ordinariate church in London.

The movement is growing — thanks to a cigar-chomping bench press champion.

The pope emeritus spoke about faith, worldliness, and the institutional Church.

The monarch and her husband Prince Philip had a private audience with the pontiff, the fifth she has met, for around 20 minutes.

Return to home diocese

Sister Stan Mumuni dedicates her life to caring for abandoned children with birth defects in Ghana. When the coronavirus pandemic spread to West Africa, she said that she ran to the market to buy...

Pour remplacer les vierges vandalisées par l’État islamique en Irak, l’Œuvre d’Orient a fait venir de France par camion 15 nouvelles statues. Elles seront bénies ce 20 juillet sur place.

Iraqi Catholics have asked Pope Francis to bless a statue of the Virgin Mary that was desecrated by the Islamic State.

The Right Revd Richard Pain, a former Bishop of Monmouth, will be received into the full communion of the Catholic Church within the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, on Sunday 2nd July.

For the first time in 40 years, the organizers of the famous Catholic route linking Notre Dame of Paris to Chartres Cathedral will have to turn away pilgrims due to an overflow of registrations.

A senior Catholic archbishop has accused the Irish government of introducing “draconian” new regulations on public worship “in a clandestine manner.”

The diocese of Rome will host a memorial Mass on Friday for Servant of God Shahbaz Bhatti, a Catholic politician in Pakistan assassinated by an Islamic terrorist group 10 years ago.

“In no other region have so many priests, religious and church workers been murdered in the last three years.”

The theologian has taught at the pontifical university attended by St. John Paul II since 2018.

John Paul II was a “liberating restorer of the Church” in the turbulent years after the Second Vatican Council, Benedict XVI has said in a letter marking the 100th anniversary of the saint’s birth.

In 2020, the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal has lost scores of pilgrims, and with them, large amounts of revenue, amid coronavirus travel restrictions which have kept foreigners away.

Pope Francis appointed the director-general of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) Tuesday to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.  

Fr. Alphonsus Bello was found dead May 21 after his parish was attacked by armed bandits.

Some in the Vatican say Fernández's appointment was a gamble which hasn't paid off

Pope emeritus Benedict XVI has praised the “glorious music” of Johann Sebastian Bach in a message to a festival in Germany.

Discussions continue despite claim to infallibility

A Nigerian archbishop has asked for prayers for the safe release of a priest kidnapped in Abuja earlier this week.

The icon of Our Lady of Budslau has been venerated for centuries in a village north of the capital, Minsk.

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has published data documenting more than 500 hate crimes against Christians in Europe in 2019.

Major Archbishop Shevchuk said that ‘priests are being killed.’

The decision paves the way for the Dutch Carmelite friar’s canonization.

A Catholic bishop presided Saturday at a funeral Mass for 640 unborn children in Poland.