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Amid growing concern for the survival of Christianity in Iraq, the country's bishops are set to assess a new scheme helping Christian families who fled jihadist terror to return. Chaldean Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil told Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) that the country's bishops will be meeting next month to discuss the government plan aimed at encouraging Christians to come back to Iraq. The... Read More

Reimagining the Post-Conflict State by Eric Budd, Bloomsbury Books. At a time when conflict is causing such misery in the Middle East and Africa, what does it take to ensure that peace - if it comes - is durable, and not just a series of temporary ceasefires? Eric Budd looks at peace agreements in Rwanda, Northern Ireland, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Bosnia. He suggests an imposed peace - one f... Read More

Archbishop John Sherrington, Archbishop of Liverpool and Lead Bishop for Life Issues for the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, has welcomed Prime Minister Andy Burnham's call for palliative care services to be properly funded. The Prime Minister has stated that palliative care and social care funding need to be "fixed" so that vulnerable people can have "peace of mind" about the c... Read More

A statement by Mary Robinson, Graça Machel, Helen Clark and Hina Jilani following their visit to the Middle East, 11-16 July 2026. We have just concluded a visit to the West Bank, Israel, Jordan and Lebanon. From all that we have witnessed and heard, our inescapable conclusion is that the government of Prime Minister Netanyahu, and in particular Ministers Smotrich and Ben-Gvir, aim to make Pales... Read More

Many people keep journals to record events, process emotions, or understand life's challenges. For St Ignatius of Loyola, journaling served a deeper purpose. It became a way for him to listen attentively to God. Ignatius' Spiritual Diary, written in 1544 and 1545, is one of the most personal spiritual documents we have. Instead of listing daily events, he wrote about his inner experiences as he tr... Read More

Who are the new Catholics and what is their background? The recent rise in adults baptised or received into the Catholic Church has been analysed in a new survey by three leading academic researchers. Their findings were presented by Professor Francis Davis at a seminar hosted by Word on Fire at the recent We Believe festival, and at an earlier workshop organised by the Wessex Research seminar. Th... Read More

Gospel of 30 July 2026 Matthew 13:47-53 At that time: Jesus said to the crowd, 'Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind. When it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into vessels but threw away the bad. So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous and t... Read More

Pope Leo joined the 'Canticle of Peace' this evening at Borgo Laudato si', in the Pontifical Gardens of Castel Gandolfo, with Andrea Bocelli and the ABF Voices choir, made up of 164 children from Uganda, the Holy Land and Italy. Organized by the Laudato si' Higher Education Center in partnership with the Andrea Bocelli Foundation, the gathering was part of the celebrations marking the 800th annive... Read More

The parish priest of the Holy Family Church in Gaza, Fr Gabriel Romanelli, has renewed his appeal for urgent humanitarian assistance, warning that the situation in the Strip has deteriorated to the point where even the word "disastrous" is no longer sufficient to describe it. "When people say the situation here is disastrous, believe me: it really is disastrous-if anything, it calls for an even st... Read More

Sr Katrina Alton csjp, will be leading Pax Christi's Novena for Hiroshima, nine days of prayer for peace, in the lead up to the anniversaries of the nuclear bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This can be followed in audio or video format, through the following links: YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRERju264dbQ&si=zksh789Spo-dhg7D Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1fL1pY... Read More

The Sinfonia of London, under the baton of its brilliant conductor John Wilson, brought the house down with its delivery of Respighi's 'Roman Trilogy' at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall last Friday It was a thrill to witness one of the world's greatest orchestras bring to life Respighi's rhapsodic evocation of the Eternal City in all its colour and variety, from the spiritual to the festive... Read More

Campaign group Care Not Killing has welcomed the comments from the new Prime Minister Andy Burnham, saying that we should fix palliative care before considering assisted dying. Speaking at a London care home earlier today, he was asked about the assisted dying debate and commented, "personally I think there is something that needs to happen first and that's the fixing of the funding for palliative... Read More

This episode from All Kinds of Catholic is the first of two brought to you from the We Believe Festival, recorded over the weekend by Theresa Alessandro. Listen in to hear about the goodness, truth and beauty of our faith, expressed at the festival though liturgy, talks, music, dance and being together. Pod guests explain why they came, what they found, and how their faith is sustained in daily l... Read More

The WeBelieve Festival was held at the magnificent grounds of St Mary's College, Oscott for the second year running from 24th to 27th July 2026. St Mary's College, Oscott is deeply intertwined with the revival of Catholicism in England. In July 1852 the first synod of Catholic Bishops in England in over two hundred years gathered at Oscott. It was at this synod that Fr John Henry Newman preached... Read More