The Catholic Herald

As the Church celebrates Pentecost, Christians are called not only to remember their Baptism, but also to live their faith openly and without fear. ✍️ Br René Stockman Article | thecatholicherald.com/article/pentec…

Scott-Vincent Borba’s rejection of his former lifestyle offers a striking contrast to forms of Catholicism that seek to affirm rather than confront sin. 🔗 ow.ly/QHaJ50Z32Y8

"There are cities in Europe where the Virgin still reigns visibly from stone and glass." Jan C. Bentz on Oxford and the surviving Marian imagination of medieval England. Article | ow.ly/nhw250Z32X3

VATICAN DISPATCH: Pope Leo turns to AI while synodality returns to centre stage. As anticipation builds around Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical on artificial intelligence, the Vatican also presses ahead with a renewed synodal process and prepares for the Pontiff’s first visit to France. ✍️ @MLJHaynes thecatholicherald.com/article/pope-l…

Can Sunday sport come before family Mass? The Herald Chaplain answers. Article | ow.ly/qZWu50Z32VQ

Saturday Read: The enduring pull of England’s cathedrals. thecatholicherald.com/article/saturd…

Coptic Orthodox Church resumes dialogue with Holy See after same-sex blessing assurances. The decision follows a two-year rupture over Fiducia supplicans. thecatholicherald.com/article/coptic…

Spain’s famous Camino de Santiago pilgrimage offers a powerful counterbalance to the alienation, competitiveness and digital disconnection of modern Western life. ✍️ James Jeffrey thecatholicherald.com/article/the-wo…

Female pop stars are increasingly treated as objects of devotion, revealing a culture searching for meaning, identity and motherhood elsewhere. Isabel Gibbens examines the rise of the false Madonnas. thecatholicherald.com/article/the-ri…

Why replace Notre-Dame’s surviving windows with Macron’s vanity project? thecatholicherald.com/article/notre-…

Record numbers expected for Paris-to-Chartres pilgrimage: Organisers say registrations have surged as young Catholics and converts continue to be drawn to the traditional liturgy. ✍️ @Colsy99 thecatholicherald.com/article/record…

"Ireland is soon going to run out of priests. This will not come as a surprise to anyone who has been attentive to news from the Church here over the past decade or more. A not insignificant number of dioceses have not seen any new vocations in that time, others one or two, the rare few a small, steady flow." thecatholicherald.com/article/lay-le…

Salim El Koudri is accused of injuring eight people in a car-ramming attack in central Modena. thecatholicherald.com/article/modena…

Why the fantasy of escape cannot replace home: "There is a lot of anticipation – much of it negative, I’m afraid – regarding Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film adaptation of Homer’s saga The Odyssey. I hope that the film, Ulysses, manages somehow to include the story of the landing of Ulysses and his men in the land of the Lotus Eaters, a kind of Greek hippie commune where the natives are essentially stoned all day on the fruit of the lotus plant. I hope it does, because this little episode in the saga has so much to say to our society." ✍️ Fr Gavan Jennings thecatholicherald.com/article/why-th…

"I would happily describe myself as part of the “crunchy Catholic” camp: someone whose faith forms the basis of how I understand everything, while also being drawn to holistic health, natural living, traditional remedies, organic food and a general distrust of over-medicalised modern life." ✍️ @DelphineChui thecatholicherald.com/article/have-w…

Catholics across the United States are being invited to prepare through Eucharistic Adoration, works of mercy and a novena to the Sacred Heart. thecatholicherald.com/article/us-bis…

From the Apostles to the modern era, the history of the Church reveals how holy friendships have nourished sanctity and strengthened the Mystical Body of Christ. ✍️ Clement Harrold thecatholicherald.com/article/no-sai…

Historic Catholic churches facing mounting repair costs may benefit from a new £92 million Government scheme supporting active places of worship across England. thecatholicherald.com/article/new-ps…

A modest exhibition at Farm Street Church invites visitors to contemplate reproductions of Marian masterpieces not as museum pieces, but as aids to prayer. ✍️ Melanie McDonagh thecatholicherald.com/article/pilgri…