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1 day ago | 
thecatholicherald.com | Gavin Mortimer
This month France has been severely rattled by what some are calling Christianophobie that has swept over the country. In the Brittany city of Rennes, the church of Saint Jean Marie Vianney was desecrated, and in Normandy the parish hall of a church was vandalised. A similar fate befell the parish hall of the Saint-Laurent church in Maurepas, south of Paris, while in the middle of the French capital a man carrying a knife entered Saint-Ambroise church just before Mass.
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2 days ago | 
thecatholicherald.com | Elise Ann Allen
British Ambassador to the Holy See Chris Trott has voiced excitement over the recent election of Pope Leo XIV and has said he is looking forward to his part in the UK’s continuing collaboration with what he described as the world’s greatest soft power.
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2 weeks ago | 
thecatholicherald.com | Ngala Killian Chimtom
YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – Cameroon is continuing to be attacked by the Islamist organization Boko Haram, and the situation is getting worse, according to a bishop. Bishop Barthélemy Yaouda Hourgo of the Yagoua Diocese in Cameroon’s Far North region, Barthélemy Yaouda Hourgo spoke to Crux about the deteriorating security situation in the area during the 50th Ordinary Plenary Assembly of the Cameroon Bishops’ Conference. “The current situation of insecurity is worsening,” he said.
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2 weeks ago | 
thecatholicherald.com
Expectations are not only heating up in the Vatican this week about who will be the new pope but also regarding who will dress him after white smoke finally emits from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel. Raniero Mancinelli, 86, has personally handcrafted cassocks for three popes at his now famed shop, Mancinelli Clero, located
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2 weeks ago | 
thecatholicherald.com | Peter Day-Milne
Every Catholic has his or her prediction for the conclave: some predict a new pope in the mould of Pope Francis, others predict a course correction for the Church with the election of a man such as Cardinal Robert Sarah. But if the topic of the conclave has been on everyone’s lips, one question of
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2 weeks ago | 
thecatholicherald.com | Gavin Ashenden
There are moments in history that act as defining dates determining and reflecting the change of direction in world affairs. We think of 1789 and the French Revolution, and of 1917 with the Russian revolution. If you subscribe to the Great Man of History perspective, then there are moments of election and choice that equally
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3 weeks ago | 
thecatholicherald.com | Elise Harris
Pope Francis was a globally beloved and respected figure during his twelve years at the helm of the Catholic Church. But he also generated a significant amount of controversy during his papacy – much of which, thanks to social media, played out visibly in real time. After an initial “honeymoon phase” following Francis’s election, which Assessing Pope Francis's most controversial decisions for the Church
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3 weeks ago | 
thecatholicherald.com
A social media push for Cardinal Robert Sarah to become the next pope appears to be gaining momentum in the wake of the death of Pope Francis. What are described as “neatly packaged sound bites” are circulating rapidly around conservative social media spheres of influence, reports the Daily Telegraph. It describes how this appears to Social media push for Cardinal Sarah to be next pope
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3 weeks ago | 
thecatholicherald.com | Miles Pattenden
“Pope Francis has returned to the House of the Father.” Those sad words, read out by Cardinal Kevin Farrell, a former Bishop of Dallas, shortly after 10 a.m. local time yesterday morning echoed John Paul II’s final utterance in April 2005: “Allow me to depart to the house of the Father”. It is twenty years
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1 month ago | 
thecatholicherald.com | Elise Harris
ROME – When Pope Francis was discharged from the hospital three weeks ago, officials broadly said that a new era of his papacy was being ushered in, following a harrowing 38-day battle with double pneumonia. For the first two weeks after his discharge from Rome’s Gemelli Hospital on March 23, what exactly Francis’s papacy would look like going forward was largely a mystery, as he settled back into his residence and appeared to be astutely adhering to a doctor-mandated two-month period of rest.