Archbishop Georg Ganswein has spent most of the last two decades standing next to the person with the microphone, in his service as an aide to both Pope emeritus Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. But a ...

Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York will offer a prayer at the opening of the Republican National Convention next week, the cardinal announced on Tuesday. “As a priest, one of my most sacred ...

Trump supporters clash with police and security forces as they storm the US Capitol in Washington, DC on January 6, 2021. – Demonstrators breeched security and entered the Capitol as Congress debated ...

Public worship is suspended — funerals excepted, though there is a cap of thirty persons in attendance — and houses of worship are to remain closed unless they are being used for funerals, or the ...

Pope Francis may try to influence the electorate in the conclave, but no one can predict who will succeed him It is a paradox of papal history that each pope can create as many cardinals as he likes, ...

I continued to deny it as we got out of the car. By then we were in the middle of nearly nowhere – and we did not have a map. We had been enticed into a nearby glen by the promise of a holy well and a ...

Readers of hte Catholic Herald send in their letters about the issues of the day, such as hte US Presidential Election. A morally tough choice in US election (Biden v. Trump) does not absolve ...

DENVER – During a recent visit to Hong Kong, Beijing Archbishop Li Shan stressed the need to more closely combine the Catholic faith and Chinese culture, saying the Church ought to pursue ...

— Baghdad — Pope Francis arrived at the Presidential Palace in Iraq on Friday, in the heavily fortified Green Zone of the capital. An honour guard, about a hundred strong lined up, along with the ...

Benedict acknowledges the controversy that lingers concerning his renunciation of the papacy, saying “Some of my friends who are a bit ‘fanatical’ are still angry, they did not want to accept my ...

Police in Gabon, Central Africa, attacked and arrested clergy in their efforts to shut down the Catholic Church’s plans to reopen churches. On October 4, the Episcopal Conference of Gabon announced ...

Last summer, I moved to Salthill in Galway, on the Western coast of Ireland, and am blessed to live a minute away from the Atlantic Ocean. It has been quite the change, having lived all my life in ...